Archive for July, 2010 - Page 15

Great news for those of you in the UK who are looking for a subsidized Samsung Galaxy S Android phone. Carrier Three is now offering the Android superphone for free. All of their tariffs go for two-years (24 months) and you get the phone for free. So, bad news for [...]

Good news for video game developers and publishers, bad news for would-be pirates in the United Kingdom. The government of the UK has banned the import and sale of R4 cards and other flashcart cards that allow play of pirated games on a Nintendo DS. The decision was made by [...]

And just like that, the shortlist of possibilities for the yet to be announced HSPA+ capable phone from T-Mobile has grown. Earlier today we mentioned how the term “vanguard” was spotted by viewing the source code for the T-Mobile website. Well, depending on which you favor, that may or may [...]

Coming off a fairly busy day yesterday, Apple seems to be taking it easy with one release today. Or at least one release so far, but then again its still early in the day. As for what we are seeing today — an update to Safari. This latest update has [...]

With popular coverage, you may have heard of the so-called “conflict diamonds” in Africa. You may also be aware of alleged human rights issues in high-tech plants in China. But are you aware that your gadget may also be made from “conflict materials”? A new US law requires technology manufacturers [...]

Its been a little while since we last heard of the Lumigon T1 smartphone. That said, it seems like the whole vaporware idea may need to be tossed out because Lumigon has taken to their official Facebook page and offered up a US release date as well as some specs.

Sort of deja vu for us here at TFTS. I just wrote about Cellular South offering the Android 2.1 update to the HTC Hero owners on their network. At the end of the article, I waxed poetically about the regional carriers in the United States offering more and more quality [...]

Motorola has decided not to take a back seat approach to the whole antennagate incident and have fought back with a full page ad in todays issue of the NY Times. And we must say, its an ad that is not only straight to the point but also names features [...]

The past few years haven’t been kind for Sprint. Despite offering some of the lowest monthly plans and having some exclusives on desired phones like the Palm Pre – they’ve been shedding customers for years. Well, that all changed for the first time in three years, Sprint-Nextel gained 111,000 customers [...]

Despite being ‘just’ a regional carrier mainly focused in the American South, the customers of Cellular South seem really happy and loyal to their carrier. Cellular South and HTC are repaying that a bit as HTC Hero users on Cellular South’s network will soon get the Android 2.1 “Eclair” update [...]