Samsung Epic 4G now available from Sprint website.   If you are not familiar with this phone, you should check it out, here are some information provided by Sprint:

The Android-powered Samsung Epic 4G was engineered for a legendary entertainment experience with superior speed and display innovation. Its 3G/4G speeds allow you to stream and download videos, applications and games at blink-and-you'll-miss-it speeds. Read books and magazines or watch TV shows and movies in HD-like quality on the expansive 4.0-inch Super AMOLED display.

This pocket-sized entertainment hotshot is also a mobile hotspot. Share 3G/4G speeds with up to five Wi-Fi devices. With its full, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, super responsive touchscreen, Swype text entry and 4G speeds, you can be a social networking and messaging rockstar. This powerhouse goes everywhere, does everything - all at 4G speeds. So let your Epic adventure begin. Android Market

Key Features

* Access to 4G speeds that are up to 10x faster than 3G
* Dual-mode 3G/4G device, access to dependable 3G speeds and accelerated 4G speeds where available
* Dual cameras
* 1 GHz processor
* Mobile Hotspot capable
* 3G speeds where available
* Slide-out QWERTY keyboard
* Android^TM 2.1
* Combined IM, MMS and SMS messaging
* All in-one calendar
* Integrated contacts from multiple sources
* Linked Contacts and Layered Calendar
* Chat-style messaging
* Touchscreen
* Music capable
* Sprint TV®
* GPS Navigation enabled
* Web browsing capable
* Email capable
* Camera
* Bluetooth® Wireless
* Memory card slot
* Voice activated dialing
* Supports multiple simultaneous users

source: Sprint

South Korea's telecom big KT Corp. said Wednesday it had acquired greater than a 100,000 reservations for the iPhone four in the first day of preorders for the latest mannequin of Apple Inc.'s smartphone.

KT, the native distributor of Apple's iPhones and the second-largest cellular carrier within the nation, said greater than a 100,000 individuals had positioned a preorder for the smash-hit smartphone. A preorder, nonetheless, is topic to cancellation if a customer chooses to opt out.

The iPhone four is proving rather more fashionable than Apple's earlier model, the iPhone 3GS, which received sixty five,000 preorders in the first 5 days of reservations in the country. It took 5 days for the Galaxy S, Samsung Electronics Co.'s flagship smartphone released in June, to interrupt the 100,000 sales milestone in the domestic market.

Upon opening at 6 a.m. Wednesday, the preorder Web page for the iPhone four skilled a delay for about one hour as the server was overloaded by tens of thousands of customers accessing the site at the similar time, in response to a KT spokesman.

KT started receiving preorders with out stating the exact date it will ship the model. The iPhone 4 will likely be launched someday in September, in line with KT.

South Korea was originally on the list of 18 international locations for the iPhone four's July release, but it was the one country dropped from the list. Apple and KT postponed the launch citing regulatory requirements.

Apple's previous model, the iPhone 3GS, which was released in South Korea on the finish of 2009, topped 850,000 in gross sales in about eight months.

KT is hoping to boost its smartphone gross sales and retain subscribers as its rival SK Telecom Co., South Korea's prime mobile carrier, sold greater than 600,000 models of Samsung's Galaxy S as of last month, amid the delay within the iPhone four's local release.

source: unwiredview

 

 

Samsung Galaxy U specs finally revealed, but we are still waiting on the price of this awesome device.  It is expected to be announced sometime this week and will be available in both black and white.

 

Specifications:

 

• Size: 119.5 X 59.6 X12.4mm
• Weight: 131g
• Network: J-CDMA, CDMA Rev. A
• Display: 3.7-inch 16M AMOLED Plus (480×800)
• OS: Android OS
• CPU: 1GHz S5PC111
• Camera: 5 megapixel autofocus camera with 720p HD video recording
• DMB: T-DMB
• WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n
• Bluetooth: 3.0
• Video Formats: MP, 3GP, 3GPP, K3G, Divx, Avi, Mkv, flv, asf
• Audio Formats: MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG, AAC, MID, MIDI, FLAC
• 3.5mm headphone jack
• MicroSD card slot: 8GB bundled, up to 32GB supported
• Other Features: OZ Store, Kyobo e-book, Daum maps, Allshare, Live wallpapers, access to Google services
• Battery: 1500mAh
• Talk time: up to 7 hours
• Standby time: up to 370 hours

 

Source: SamsungHub

The excellent news for T-Cell USA is that it kind of feels to be moving upmarket way to a huge push into the phone area with devices just like the HD2 and the myTouch 3G Slide.

T-Mobile USA, Inc. ("T-Mobile USA") today suggested 2nd quarter of 2010 results. In the second one quarter of 2010, T-Mobile USA pronounced service sales of $4.70 billion up from $4.63 billion within the first quarter of 2010, and OIBDA of $1.42 billion compared to $1.39 billion reported in the first quarter of 2010.

Overall customers served declined via 93,000 in the second one quarter of 2010 compared to 77,000 web purchaser losses in the first quarter of 2010, however with positive web conventional postpay consumer additions that are incorporated inside settlement customers. Moreover, customers the usage of 3G-capable sensible telephones endured to extend significantly all over the quarter, using combined knowledge ARPU growth.

You may have seen the buzz in the US about the Samsung Galaxy S, ATT has already release the Samsung Captivate on its network last month, and it has been a success indeed.  Canadian carrier Rogues has announce that they will be adding the highly-anticipated Galaxy S Captivate to our Android and Social View lineup in the coming weeks.

Rogers was the first to bring Android to Canada and we're excited to add the Galaxy S Captivate to Canada's most comprehensive list of Android devices.

More details will be available in the coming weeks.

Rogue wants to celebrate the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S smartphone in Canada, Samsung Mobile and Metric, Canada's hottest indie band, will rock the downtown core tonight at 7:00 pm with a free street-level concert at Toronto's Union Station.

Definitely a funny ad came out form Motorola, this ad will be hitting the newspaper tomorrow, according to Droid-Life, the popular blog for Android OS plateform.

Took Motorola a minute to counter attack the iphone, besides of course the iDon't ad's which a lot of people don't know was a shot at the phone even then. Good job on this one though, funny. Oh and am I tripping, or is the HTC Evo and this phone the same device but different branding's, specs wise?

Took Motorola a minute to counter attack the iphone, besides of course the iDon't ad's which a lot of people don't know was a shot at the phone even then. Good job on this one though, funny. Oh and am I tripping, or is the HTC Evo and this phone the same device but different branding. Says Antonio Johnson

AT&T continues to back the platform wholeheartedly after endorsing it -- and Microsoft 's cellular efforts -- repeatedly over the past year. "We'll be the premier carrier for Home windows Cellphone 7," a spokeswoman stated by way of e-mail on Monday. "We haven't given guidance on timing."

The spokeswoman would not elaborate about what a premier provider would do to advertise WP7. Analysts have noted the value to Microsoft of getting as many carriers on board as possible, particularly given the failure of Microsoft Kin telephones sold by Verizon Wireless and Microsoft's transfer away from the Windows Cell 6.x platform.

Each Verizon and Sprint Nextel refused to remark about their plans for WP7, and the fourth-largest provider, T-Mobile USA, didn't reply to a question on its plans. A Microsoft spokeswoman final week stated neither Microsoft nor the cellular operators have any bulletins on whether they will have WP7 telephones when they develop into usually accessible this fall. She did observe, nonetheless, that Microsoft indicated at its WP7 announcement at Mobile World Congress in February that its US companions have been AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon.

AT&T has stood out in its reward for Microsoft and WP7 in current months. At the CTIA present in March, Jeff Bradley, senior vp of mobile units for AT&T, stated in an interview that the service was trying ahead to promoting WP7 telephones to be used on its network when they develop into available.

via: engadget

Verizon going to push as many as 30 Long Term Evolution (LTE) markets up and running within the US in the fourth quarter of this year will mean that Sprint Nextel Corp. with its companion, Clearwire LLC (Nasdaq: CLWR) -- will soon no longer be the one operator that may claim a so-known as "4G" community in the US.

Sprint, which makes use of Clearwire's WiMax community for its 4G service, at present operates it in forty three markets. Clearwire has thus far stated that it plans to cowl around one hundred twenty million people throughout the US by the tip of 2010 and is promising launches in main markets like the Bay Space, Los Angeles, and New York City by that time.

Verizon Wi-fi is promising to begin its LTE service in the fourth quarter. The operator might want to launch in lots of main cities to hit its plan to cowl a hundred million potential clients by the end of the year. Verizon, however, isn't commenting on a report from Engadget that November 15 is the day that its preliminary LTE companies will go commercial.

A restricted November launch is a risk, based on Heavy Reading's Berge Ayvazian. "I do know Verizon is pushing to launch LTE in as many markets as potential earlier than year-finish," notes the senior consultant. "November 15 is feasible -- however it would imply fewer markets."  This, he suggests, will up the pressure on Dash and Clearwire to make wireless broadband out there in major markets like NYC and San Francisco. "Clearwire will have to be business in the top markets by then for certain," Ayvazian says.

Sprint and Clearwire will proceed to have one advantage over Verizon's early LTE service: the operators can offer smartphones that assist WiMax and CDMA services. Sprint already has the HTC EVO 4G and will launch a Samsung 4G telephone later this year. Verizon isn't expecting to have LTE smartphones until someday in the first half of 2011.

In fact, neither of the networks actually qualifies as a true 4G community below the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) 's definition of 4G. These requirements include common downlink speeds of a hundred Mbit/s within the broad space community, and as much as 1 Gbit/s for local access or low mobility scenarios. (See ITU Approves New 4G Specs.)

Verizon says its LTE community will provide average knowledge download speeds of between 5 and 12 Mbit/s by the end of 2010. Clearwire offers round 6-Mbit/s downlinks with bursts as much as 10 Mbit/s. (See Counting Down to LTE.)

source: LR mobile

Dell has confirmed that its Streak tablet will get the Android 2.2 operating system (Froyo) later this 12 months, but it surely won't run on T-Mobile's 3G network.

The Dell Streak worth was briefly shown on the Dell site earlier today though Dell has since pulled the web page off line. While the page was up, the pricing for the Streak showed a price of $299.ninety nine on a two yr contract with ATT with a price tag of $549.99 off contract. With Dell pulling the web page from it's website, there's a slim chance it may very well be modified nearer to the release date (which is any day now we consider). Nevertheless, we think the prices will probably be what it is.

In addition to temporarily unveiling the Dell Streak worth, the value of the Dell Aero was additionally noticed with a price of $99.99 on contract and $299.ninety nine off contract with a launch date of August 9. We'll attempt get more particulars on this and replace as soon as possible.

The opposite piece of reports the corporate revealed right now is that it's going to "not be certified for T-Cellular operation overall." In other words, the Dell Streak is barely going to work on AT&T's 3G community in the U.S., similar to a sure different 3G tablet.

source: mashable

In accordance to information gathered through AndroLib, Google android users have downloaded more than one billion applications. That's an amazing quantity, though this is actually an estimation and also hasn't been verified by Google.

What is not apparent is whether that is 1 billion distinctive applications that have already been downloaded, or if that consists of application revisions. For example, I have updated several of my Google android applications more than 10 instances within the previous year or so. Did those count as one or 10 downloads? AndroLib doesn't say.

One billion downloads is still a lot of activity. According to AndroLib's charts, the rate of downloads is increasing rapidly. It has a real-time view of the number of downloads, and that number has climbed by more than 100,000 downloads in the time it took me to write this post.

According to the stats. 61.4% of the apps are free. But with Google activating 66,000 new Android phones daily, and with the excitement created by the sold out Motorola DROID X, developers are set to create many more apps for Google's open source OS. Android is definitely catching up to the Apple App downloads.

via: androidlib