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We finally have official news about the HTC EVO 4G and the launch date. The 4G smartphone will be made available on June 4 with a price tag of $199 on contract. The phone will cost an extra $10/month though on top of a service plan to connect up to the higher speed network – Update: This $10/month is for those wanting to get rid of download limits. Also, for wireless sharing mentioned below, that’s an extra $30/month which Sprint point out is cheaper than buying a mobile broadband connection.

The HTC EVO 4G is the first 4G smartphone being launched in America. The 4G network being used is provided through Sprint who run the network across a number of States in the US with more coverage being added through out the coming years.

The HTC EVO 4G has two cameras built in with one facing forwards for video calls and the other facing backwards to capture photos while out and about. The rear facing camera can capture images at 8 megapixels while the front camera is 1.3 megapixels. It runs Android 2.1 and has full access to over 35,000 apps found in the Android Market. [Read more…]

Verizon [VZ] today formally announced the LG Ally along with a release date and pricing. The LG Ally will be launched on May 20 and will cost $100 on contract.

The LG Ally is the first ever LG Android based phone to be launched in the US. The Ally comes installed with the Android 2.1 operating system along with a slightly tweaked UI by LG.

Technical spec wise it has 802.11n connectivity, GPS built in and a full QWERTY slide out keyboard. Live wallpapers can be used on this device.

Around the back a 3.2 megapixel camera can be found along with a flash. The camera can capture pictures and video although there are no HD resolutions on this smartphone. [Read more…]

Details of the LG Ally have been revealed by the team over at BGR. The LG Ally will be up for pre-order on May 13 and will follow a week later on May 20 with a launch in all channels.

The LG Ally comes with a 600MHz processor and runs with 256MB of RAM. It will run Android 2.1 from Google [GOOG] and come with an LG user interface. The phone it’s self is a slider that opens to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard.

Features running on the device include a calendar, weather/time and socialite widgets. Verizon has also made some changes to the UI and included features such as Visual Voicemail and V CAST media manager. [Read more…]

Google [GOOG] has updated their Google Goggles app for Android that now brings text translation in to the mix.

Gizmodo describe the new application as having a little multi-linguist living in your phone.

To get the system to work you simply load up the application, point the camera at the text you want translating (making sure you get a clear shot of it) and capture the image. Once captured the system is capable of detecting the language you are looking at in most cases, and after a short wait the English translation will appear on screen. [Read more…]

When Google [GOOG] launched the Google Nexus One, the tax was calculated slightly wrong and rather than being based on the sale price it was based on the full retail price. So, if you overpaid the tax, Google are now returning the overpayment to you.

The money you over paid will be paid back to the card you paid on originally unless the card has expired and in those cases, it will be refunded to the same account on to the new issued card.

The letter reads as follows…

Hello,

We’re writing in regards to your recent Nexus One purchase. There was an issue with the way the sales tax was applied to your order. When your order was placed, you paid taxes on the full retail price of the phone. However, you should have only been charged taxes on the sales price of the phone. We apologize for this issue and wanted to let you know that Google will issue a partial refund for the difference in the amount of taxes you were charged.

The refund will be issued to the debit/credit card used to complete the original purchase. To verify which card will receive the refund, please sign in to your Google Checkout account at and click ˜View order’. The payment information for the order will be listed at the bottom of the order receipt.

If the debit/credit card used to complete your purchase has been closed, your card-issuing bank should forward these funds to your new account or mail a check to you for the amount of the refund.

If you have any questions about the refund, or if you need further assistance, please reply to this email and we’ll be happy to help.

Sincerely,

The Nexus One Team

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We are hearing rumours today saying that the HTC EVO 4G will be going up for pre-order in the next few weeks sometime in May. The phone will be launching on to the Sprint network and is one of the highly anticipated Android phones being launched this year.

With pre-orders starting towards the end of May it is expected that the official launch date of the smartphone on to Sprint will happen on June 6 which has been a date speculated previously.

Comments in a forum also indicated that HTC EVO 4G will be going to 1 staff member in each store on May 17 with training on the phone starting May 24 with a sale date of June 6. [Read more…]

In the May edition of the Vodafone magazine a picture of the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini can be found indicating that it will be launching soon on that network. This is just the X10 Mini though and there is no mention of the X10 Mini Pro this time around.

A quick re-cap on what’s included in the X10 Mini show that it has a 5 megapixel camera. It runs the Android operating system. The X10 Mini has no QWERTY keyboard like the Mini Pro does, but other than that it’s essentially the same phone. [Read more…]

Last week we heard some information about the LG Optimus being launched soon. More details have now arrived.

The Optimus runs Google Android and is described as being a phone for beginners. It runs Android 1.6, allows GMail, YouTube, Gtalk and Google Maps as well as a number of other Google branded services to be accessed from the handset by using a synced Google account.

LG haven’t left Android 1.6 as standard though and have made a few changes here and there to allow integration with social networking that brings Facebook, Twitter and other social networks to a real-time update service on the home screen. [Read more…]