Late on Sunday evening, HTC took to its Facebook page to provide a status update on its plans to provide unlocked bootloaders for several of its popular Android smartphones. This coming August, software updates designed to facilitate bootloader unlocks will begin rolling out for the global variant of the Sensation, T-Mobile’s Sensation 4G, and Sprint’s HTC EVO 3D. [...]

Thanks to one of BGR’s anonymous sources, today we have a bit more information to report on the first Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” smartphone from Google. Purportedly dubbed either the Google Nexus Prime or Nexus Prime, the device is said to be built by Samsung and feature some rather jaw-dropping specs, including a large 720p [...]

Canadian based app Poynt - previously the app in its BlackBerry version was reviewed by CellGuru here - announced today that they have signed a deal with two Sprint prepaid brands, Virgin Mobile USA and Boost Mobile USA, to preload the Poynt app on prepaid smartphones. The first such device which will get the app preloaded [...]

  So far there has been nothing groundbreaking announced at the CTIA conference happening in Orlando. Granted not groundbreaking doesn’t always translate into “uncool” for most, so all things being fair, you can chalk up this announcement as a “cool” one in my books. HTC officially announced during their press conference today the EVO 3D, [...]

American mobile service provider and carrier Sprint just announced upcoming integration with Google Voice. The news was made public in a press release yesterday making Sprint (who also own the Nextel brand, and are officially named Sprint Nextel) the first carrier to provide this integration. The plan is to let already existing customers set their [...]

We’ve obtained pictures of the Sprint corporate stores receiving accessory inventory today and tomorrow as well as a ‘seed’ device in their computer system. The ‘seed device’ mentioned is the Sanyo Taho military spec durable phone. We’ve all seen various leaks of the EVO 4G Shift, the refreshed EVO device with a hardware keyboard and beefed-up [...]

We all know the device is slated to launch in a matter of days and you have seen the pictures floating around for a while now, so this post is nothing really new. But, if you are part of the select people (there ARE some of you) interested in the device, one of our Sprint [...]

First leaked back in the Spring, one of the most scrutinized devices to be conceived by RIM is finally going to see the light of day. Announced today is a launch date of Oct. 31st 2010 from Sprint for $99 (after mail-in rebate) on a 2 year term, in 2 distinct colors: Steel Gray and Royal Purple. If you [...]

Remember the BlackBerry 9670 Clamshell? You know the one that we showed off forever ago and also the one that just had its simulator leaked online. Knowing that, it’s pretty obvious that the device’s launch has to be coming up soon, and until now we thought the destined carrier would be Verizon. BGR just let [...]

Froyo has officially hit the EVO 4G on Sprint (earlier than expected, no less!) and word has just reached us that the original Droid has started receiving the OTA update as well. Now all that’s left is the Droid X and the triumvirate of killer Android smartphones will have the latest and greatest of both [...]