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HTC has announced the launch of a new Android based phone called the HTC Wildfire. The first and last time we heard of the Wildfire was when HTC ran a poll on a Facebook page to let users choose the name of the device.

‘Today’s social networks provide an essential forum for friendship with more than 400 million users many of whom are young adults actively sharing their lives with their friends through Facebook, said Florian Seiche, Vice President, HTC EMEA. ‘HTC Wildfire makes the HTC Sense experience available to young mobile users for the first time. It brings all your communications into one place, whether it’s through Facebook, Twitter, text messages, images or email, ensuring that you are never far away from the conversation and always close to your friends.

The HTC Wildfire has a 3.2 inch QVGA screen. The screen is capacitive touch as we normally expect on this class of smartphone. A 5 megapixel camera is found on the back and all the usual connectivity is thrown in there such as WiFi, Bluetooth as well as GPS for tracking your current location. [Read more…]

After a few false starts the Android 2.1 update is now available for the Samsung Moment on the Sprint network.

The update brings the smartphone up the most current Google [GOOG] Android OS bringing a number of enhancements to the device.

To get the update you need to manually download it online and copy it over to your phone. Right now there is no OTA update being pushed out and it isn’t clear if an OTA update will arrive. [Read more…]

When Google [GOOG] launched the Nexus One back in January, the company took a unique path to selling the smartphone. Instead of selling it through the various networks, Google decided to create their own online store at google.com/phone where you could pick up a handset and theoretically choose the network you wanted your phone to be on although not many networks actually accepted it.

This method led to a low amount of sales which probably came due to the lack of marketing that Google did vs what the networks would do if they could sell the phone direct.

We now hear direct from Google that they are now going to be selling the Nexus One through the carriers retail channels…

as with every innovation, some parts worked better than others. While the global adoption of the Android platform has exceeded our expectations, the web store has not. It’s remained a niche channel for early adopters, but it’s clear that many customers like a hands-on experience before buying a phone, and they also want a wide range of service plans to chose from.

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We found out today that the AT&T [T] network is receiving an upgrade this year that will bring HSPA+ to 250 million users. The news comes from the AT&T president and CEO John Stankey who announced it earlier today in New York.

What this means is that those with compatible HSPA+ devices (which isn’t many, if any mind you), will get around double the transfer rate of HSPA at 7.2MBps potentially bumping it up to 14.4MBps.

This isn’t as quick as 4G LTE network although it is a nice step in the right direction for the company. [Read more…]

RadioShack has announced that you can now pre-order the HTC EVO 4G from any one of it’s 4000 US stores ready for connection on to the Sprint network when the phone launches June 4. Pre-orders open today where you can purchase a $50 gift card that will secure your HTC EVO 4G for when it launches on June 4. The $50 gift card will be applied to your purchase on the day of launch.

The phone it’s self is very impressive in the features it has. The device has a 4.3 inch screen along with an 8 megapixel camera on the back that is capable of capturing HD video.

The phone has mobile hotspot functionality that allows you to to connect up to 8 devices at once through the phone on to the Sprint 4G network. When launched, the HTC EVO 4G will run Android 2.1. [Read more…]

According to Digitimes, an order of 10 Million CDMA Apple iPhone units has been made which indicates they could be heading to Verizon. Of course this is just a mere rumour though as we also heard earlier this week that the deal between AT&T [T] and Apple [AAPL] was for 5 years and started in 2007 and will run to 2012 although this is currently being challenged.

If the exclusivity ends that AT&T currently have then Verizon would surely welcome the iPhone on to their network. This rumour ads to many other rumours over the last few months that have indicated that this year will be the year where Verizon finally get to offer the iPhone. Of course, until we receive official notification from Apple or Verizon, we will never know for sure. [Read more…]

We posted earlier today about an Apple iPhone 4G (leaked phone) that was running what appeared to be iPhone OS 4.0. After some people did some investigating they believe that the OS 4.0 overlay is now fake and photoshopped on to the original picture.

Reasons for believing this to be the case is for a couple of things. The first is the left edge of the screen appearing to be too close to the edge making a smaller bezel than actually exists.

Also there is a grey strip that runs on the right side at the top of the screen. According to those in the know, this strip should continue all the way across the top of the screen to the left side of the device. [Read more…]