To all my Canadian readers: imagine your respective carrier made an announcement like this? Wow. Anyway, the story goes like this: today via press release AT&T confirmed that its entire 2011 Android smartphone lineup will receive the latest Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) update in the future. It is said that AT&T will push the update to [...]

Good ol’ Best Buy; droppin’ prices and takin’ names, week after week. Though I am not 100% sure how successful they have been with their “Free Phone Friday” campaign, it must be doing well if it returns week after week, with periodic breaks in between. This week’s featured “free” phones are the BlackBerry Bold 9780 [...]

Bell’s smartphone line-up received a huge shot in the arm today, as the Samsung Galaxy S II 4G went on sale. A true beast of “superphone”, the Galaxy S II’s specs include a 4.3″ qHD Super AMOLED Plus display, 8 megapixel camera with 1080p video capture, 1.2GHz dual-core Exynos processor and 1GB of RAM. We’ve received [...]

We thought it was only pre-orders that were beginning this week, but it looks as as if the T-Mobile myTouch Slide 4G is now available for purchase through T-Mobile’s online store. The non-contract retail price is set at $499.99, but inking a new 2-year contract will bring the total down to $199.99 after a $50 [...]

So the night came and went, and we had a blast at the the Samsung-hosted party for the launch of the latest Galaxy S device to hit Canadian soil: the Infuse 4G from Rogers. Apart from mingling, drinking, mingling, and eating, we were getting a hands-on with the forthcoming Android 2.3 powered, TouchWiz 3 rockin’ [...]

Good news for Android lovers on a budget, as the Froyo-infused Motorola Triumph is now available from Virgin Mobile USA. Featuring 4.1″ WVGA display and 5 megapixel camera capable of capturing 720p video, the Triumph powers along thanks to its 1GHz processor and 512MB of RAM. The contract-free Triumph has been set at a wallet-friendly [...]

While making our daily rounds of carrier’s websites, we couldn’t help but notice that Virgin Mobile is now selling the Samsung Galaxy S II one day ahead of schedule. The hottest Android smartphone going, the phone is available from $169.99 on a 3-year contract all that the to $599.99 outright. We’re also hearing from a few [...]

Don’t ask us for a release date because we simply don’t know, but Future Shop is listing Rogers’ upcoming Samsung Galaxy S Infuse 4G for $149.99 on a 3-year contract. Yesterday we reported on the leaked full-retail price of the Infuse which has been set at $550, a price that we think is a bit high [...]

When it comes to Android, we’re pretty used to the U.S. getting everything first, but this hasn’t been the case with the Samsung Galaxy S II which still has yet to launch in the U.S. and has been available in other markets since May (you can check out our review of the Galaxy S II here). The [...]

There is a very well known saying that comes to mind when it comes to inventions like this and it’s simply “Boys and their toys”. The above mixes our boyhood joys with our adult impulses by connecting a fully-functional R/C car with your precious Android powered smartphone via Bluetooth connection. And guess what? You have [...]