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  It seems Samsung has adopted a similar strategy to Galaxy S for its Android tablet. After being announced by major operators in the US, regional carrier U.S. Cellular has confirmed that they’ll also sell Samsung’s Galaxy Tab. While they’ve kept the price under wraps, Galaxy Tab will be available to customers “in time for [...]

  At the outset of the year’s biggest holiday season, Sony has announced a price cut to its latest handheld gaming console. Starting this month, the PSPgo console in the United States and Japan will sell for $199 and 16,800 yen from $249 and 26,800 yen respectively. For the uninitiated, PSPgo adopts a slider form [...]

  Dell has launched a special edition notebook for US consumers. Its the Inspiron 15R Alloy Edition that features an aluminum finish with laser-etched alloy waves design. This premium looking 15.6-inch notebook boast decent specs like choices of Core i3, i5 or i7 processors, Windows 7 OS, up to 8GB RAM, up to 750GB HDD, [...]

  Samsung has finally unveiled MetroPCS’ first LTE phone – the Craft (SCH-r900). It’s the world’s first commercially available phone supporting LTE, multi-mode, CDMA networks. Samsung Craft goes for $299 after $50 instant rebate and features a 3.3-inch AMOLED touchscreen display, a sliding QWERTY keyboard, 3.2MP autofocus camera with panorama, mosaic shots support, Wi-Fi, GPS, [...]

  Samsung today announced its first Android-powered tablet for the American market. Galaxy Tab that is touted to take on the mighty iPad will hit retail shelves before the holiday season on four major carriers – AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless and Sprint. Unlike the international version, Galaxy Tab for US won’t feature voice calling capability [...]

  Dell’s first Android device for the US is now available on AT&T. Dell Aero or better known as Mini 3 is one of the lightest Androids around and features a 3.5-inch touchscreen display (640×360), 3G support, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 5MP camera, GPS and microSD card slot supporting up to 32GB. It is available on AT&T [...]

  The United States Federal Trade Commission who sued Intel in December 2009 over anticompetitive practices has now announced to settle with the chipmaker. The settlement, if approved, will come at a price for Intel The settlement applies to CPUs, GPUs and chipsets and now restricts Intel to use anticompetitive tactics like using threats, offer [...]

  Americans can now jailbreak, unlock their phones or even copy DVDs for non-commercial use without fearing of getting sued. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today won three critical exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anti-circumvention provisions. Now users can jailbreak/root their device and even install legal third party applications that were rejected [...]

  Microsoft has confirmed that its Kin line of phones targeted at tweens will be retired just after weeks of its release. Microsoft currently sells the devices on Verizon but didn’t garner sales as they’d expected. Microsoft also said that the decision to stop the development of Kin is to “focus exclusively on Windows Phone [...]

  As expected, Motorola has officially introduced Droid X for Verizon. It is Motorola’s most feature packed device that comes with a huge 4.3-inch display with WVGA (854×480) resolution support, 1GHz CPU and Android 2.1. Motorola has promised to release Android 2.2 as an OTA update in late summer with Adobe Flash Player 10.1. Other [...]

  AT&T has just made their variant of Galaxy S official and it looks totally different than the international version. Its known as the Captivate and despite the design and the name change, it keeps all the noteworthy features like 1GHz Hummingbird processor, HSDPA, 4-inch Super AMOLED screen, Social Hub, 5MP camera with 720p HD [...]

  UK or US users waiting for iPhone 4 can head to Apple’s online store as they’ve started taking pre-orders of the device. iPhone 4 can be pre-ordered in black only and Apple’s US Store is selling it for $199 (16GB) and $299 (32GB). However, if you’re ordering from UK, Apple is selling officially unlocked [...]

  Sony’s Billabong limited edition W Series netbook is now available in the United States market. The netbook is the same we saw last time and will come in Imperial Lime color with splashes of black, lime green and blue colors. Moreover, Sony will participate in Billabong’s Design for Humanity event where they’ll auction off [...]

  MetroPCS today launched LG’s vertical sliding messaging phone in the United States. The LG Imprint sports a sliding physical QWERTY keyboard to allow easy typing of SMSes and emails. The phone’s feature set includes threaded messaging support, 1.3MP camera, speakerphone, built-in image editor, micro USB port, Bluetooth, music player and MetroNavigator for voice-guided turn-by-turn [...]

  Dell’s CEO at the Citrix Systems’ keynote confirmed the release date of its upcoming Android MID, Streak aka Mini 5. According to Michael Dell, they’re looking to release the device first in Europe with O2 Telefonica whereas AT&T will carry it in United States sometime this summer. Mini 5 sports a 5-inch capacitive display [...]