If you’re all hot and bothered by today’s announcement from Apple, there’ll be a new way for AT&T customers to snatch up the iPhone 4S. Later this evening, Ma Bell expects to introduce a gem into the App Store that lets users check their upgrade eligibility, and beginning Friday, October 7th, customers will be able to pre-order the A5-wielding beauty from the comfort.
In the wake of HP’s fire sale for the TouchPad, it looks like yet another tablet will be given a price reduction to encourage sales. This time around it’s the HTC Flyer, thanks to the folks over at Best Buy. It has been reported that starting tomorrow, October 1st, Best Buy outlets will be reducing the price of the HTC Flyer from $499 to $299. That’s $200 off, similar to what the BlackBerry.
It was just recently that we brought you word that Skype for iOS is now compatible with Bluetooth headsets, and here is another piece of juicy news – Skype for Android has hit version 2.5, which means it will be able to offer video support for another 14 Android-powered devices, meaning a grand total of 41 devices that can do video calls on-the-go using Skype is now available at your disposal. You.
HTC recently forked out around a cool $300 million to obtain the Beats Audio brand as well as the technology that comes with it, and you can more or less tell that they are going to make full use of the brand to sell even more of their smartphones to the masses. After all, who knows that they might actually take the same route as Sony with the Walkman brand when it comes to handsets? Beats.
Samsung on Sunday announced that its GALAXY S II line of smartphones has reached a new milestone. Just eight weeks after the South Korea-based vendor revealed that it had shipped 5 million S II smartphones in just 85 days, Samsung now says it has sold 10 million GALAXY S II devices into global sales channels. “Since its launch in late April 2011, the GALAXY S II has seen continued sales.
Apple has confirmed that they will be making their iPhone 5 announcement in Cupertino, California at the place where it is most comfortable with – their very own headquarters. This announcement will be made this coming October 4th which we reported on earlier, and it will be a departure from the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, which Apple did use before to make major announcements for.
What can we say — this retailer’s got some ambition. Phones 4U scored a few sweet deals with HTC, announcing that it’ll be the exclusive launch partner for the Sensation XE as it becomes available on October 1st (although O2 confirmed today that it’ll come its way “soon”). This is the first we’ve heard of an official release date for the Beats-integrated.
We haven’t heard much about the PlayStation Suite for quite some time, but at the TGS 2011 opening keynote today, Sony announced that it’ll finally be rolling out an SDK for said cross-platform framework in November. Furthermore, Sony’s expecting new games and apps to be available for the PlayStation Suite in spring, which means willing C# developers will be busy over the.
Microsoft’s BUILD conference that was held at Anaheim, California saw the introduction of Samsung’s tablet device that had Windows 8 as the operating system of choice. All developer attendees also managed to snag a copy for themselves, following what Google did at their past Google I/O conferences, dishing out free hardware to attendees as a catalyst to kick-start development work on.
Nintendo’s president Satoru Iwata said sales of the company’s Nintendo 3DS device in Europe and the United States were weaker than expected after the portable gaming console made its debut in April for $250. However, Nintendo dropped the price of the 3Ds to $179 after the company reported its first quarterly operating loss. The move quickly boosted sales in Japan and has reportedly resulted.
