Going forward, Amazon will offer a single 6-inch Kindle model which it will offer in both the U.S. and internationally (sadly still not in Canada though). Amazon also reduced the price from US$279 to US$259, the price of its now discontinued U.S. model. Customers who had bought the international version earlier will or have received an email announcing the price […]
Hardware
AT&T to launch Garmin nüvifone G60 on October 4th
The ASUS-Garmin nüvifone G60, which we first heard about back in February 2008, is about to hit North American shores. It will be available exclusively from AT&T starting on October 4th. The Garmin-Asus nüvifone G60 is powered by a Linux operating system. It comes with quad-band (850/900/1800/1900MHz) GSM/GPRS/EDGE and tri-band (850/1900/2100MHz) HSDPA connectivity, a 3.55-inch WQVGA (272 by 480 pixels) […]
T-Mobile announces Motorola CLIQ availability and pricing
T-Mobile has finally announced just when the Motorola CLIQ will be available and for how much. Everything will kick off with a pre-sale for existing T-Mobile customers on October 19th. Customers who order the CLIQ during the pre-sale period, Oct. 19–Nov. 1, will have an opportunity to be one of the first in the U.S. to experience T-Mobile’s latest Android-powered […]
Orange UK formally announces Motorola DEXT
We knew this day was coming given that Orange UK was already featuring the Motorola DEXT on its site. Today the carrier formally announced that the DEXT would be available as of early October. According to Francois Mahieu, Director of Devices, Orange UK: “We’re really pleased to be exclusively offering the DEXT to UK consumers. The device builds on our […]
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2 gets a release date?
When Sony Ericsson announced the XPERIA X2 earlier this month, it only gave a general ‘early in Q4’ release date. But, as we saw with the XPERIA X1, it could be a longer wait than initially expected. Expansys UK has now posted a release date of January 11th 2010. This is quite a bit later than what Sony Ericsson has […]
New details about Asustek Eee-branded ebook reader?
A couple of weeks ago, Asustek revealed that it plans to release its own ebook reader to take on the likes of Amazon and its Kindle and Sony and its Reader line. New details have now come to light about this move. According to a spokesman for Asus in the UK, the company could offer more than one device (as […]
T-Mobile UK to launch Android-powered T-Mobile Pulse
Yesterday, T-Mobile UK announced the T-Mobile Pulse, its third Google Android-powered handset and its first pay-as-you-go Android phone. “We introduced the first Android handset, the T-Mobile G1 , to the UK back in October 2008, launched our second handset the G2 Touch earlier this year and now we’re opening up Android-based smartphones to a whole new type of mobile user […]
Scratch that Nokia N900 for AT&T and Rogers Wireless?
That report on the weekend about an upcoming Nokia announcement for a Maemo-powered N900 with support for the 850/1900/2100MHz bands was no more than a fabrication. The mysterious source that suggested that an announcement was forthcoming took the liberty of adding the last sentence to that communication from Nokia. It looks a bit different when you take that line out: […]