Samsung Galaxy S II Launch Event & Hands-On (Video)

Tonight we were at the U.S. launch of the Samsung Galaxy S II variations coming soon to AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile. These devices are similar to Samsung’s international version of the Galaxy S II which is very popular in Europe. Five million have already been sold globally. Samsung also announced their new chief marketing officer Todd Pendleton who previously worked for Nike. The event consisted of a presentation illustrating some of the cool features in …

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HTC Radar C110e and TITAN X310e Windows Phone 7s

Japanese site, Ameblo, has found an XML file on the HTC Tawain MMS site that references a new Windows Phone 7.5 Mango device called the HTC Radar C110e. The XML file (found here) seems to be used in specifing formatting attributes for MMS picture messages sent to the device. We don’t have many details on the HTC Radar other than its 480 x 800 pixel screen resolution and Internet Explorer 9.0 browser, but there has …

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Carl Camera’s Response to Molly Wood’s Windows Phone 7 Critique

You may remember how Brandon Watson recently challenged Molly Wood to try Windows Phone 7 since she was frequently complaining about Android. She did a couple video reviews on her blog and came away kind of unimpressed. You can see a little summary of her findings on CBS news as well. Software engineer, Carl Camera, decided to respond to Molly Wood’s video review with a video critique of his own. He’ll go over a few …

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T-Mobile is Ready for the Hurricane

If you’re on the east coast of the U.S.A. this weekend, you probably know about Hurricane Irene. There’s a lot of hype on the news about this storm as it’s about the size of Europe and aimed straight for New York City and New England. While many should be concerned about their lives, water supply, and electricity, T-Mobile is working to make sure your mobile phones have reception in case you need them. Throughout New …

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HTC Elegant Windows Phone Concept Design

Before you start getting excited about buying a device like this, these are just concept designs from freelance industrial designer, Kevin Zhou. These aren’t leaked images of a new Windows Phone 7 from HTC and the designer does not work for HTC so they probably won’t ever be produced. That said, we think this device looks pretty cool. The 3D renderings certainly look very realistic and the design aesthetics even go along with HTC’s current …

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MSN Movies Updated with Mango Support

The MSN Movies app for Windows Phone 7 has recently been updated with Mango support. The app now shows up in the “Apps” tab when you search for movies in Bing, and the “Buy Tickets” buttons next to showtime search results in Bing will now deep-link into the MSN Movies app’s section for buying tickets for that particular movie… which actually just loads the MovieTickets.com mobile site within the MSN Movies app, but it works …

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