Looks like Virgo the Virgin Mobile River (which is now owned by Sprint (New York Stock Exchange: S)) is aggressively pursuing the texting gang as it is rumored to be launching some cheap plans that include unlimited texts, e-mails and information.

The lowest package volition reportedly price $25 per calendar month for the unlimited whatsis above and 300 proceedings of talk time. You can also pay $40 for 1,200 proceedings and unlimited messaging and information, or just plop down $60 a month for unlimited everything. If you’re a text-happy person (Virgo the Virgin Mobile’s staff of life and butter) you can probably get away with the lowest-tier plan without a trouble.

Who cares about the plans if the phones suck though, right? Well, Phone Arena said the prepaid carrier volition soon be offering the Kyocera (New York Stock Exchange: KYO) Loft for $70, the LG Rumor Touch for $150 and the BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) Curve 8530 for $300. Remember, those prices mean value you’ll be able to own the earpiece outright but the CDMA nature of the networks mean you won’t be able to payoff that phone to other carriers easily. You definitely can’t manipulation these on AT&T (NYSE: T) or T-Mobile River, and I’d be very surprised if Verizon (NYSE: VZ) would be cool and let you activate these devices on its network.

[Via Phone Arena]

It looks like Samsung will be devising a big pushing with Android, as the company said more than 50% of its smartphone volition rock that little K automaton.

This is a great sign for Android because Samsung has enormous reach as the second-biggest French telephone manufacturer in the world. Getting cozy with Android could also lead Samsung to potentially integrate it into other products in the future tense, maybe TVs.

So, what kind of handsets can we looking forward to? Well, I think it’s safe to say that the Moment was just a clunky first attempt. We had a chance to play with the Galaxy S at CTIA and this baby is a beaut. Right away, the super AMOLED blind pops out because it’s so crisp and vibrant. It also rocks a 1Ghz processor, Android 2.1 OS, 5-megapixel shooter and all the connected goodness you expect from a gimmick of this class. Check out the embedded video recording below for a finisher look.

As for the company’s dwelling-grown operating organization, bada, Samsung plans to use this for 1-third of its smartphones. This appliance-tastic OS is already on the Wave and, piece I really don’t like having so many chopine, it seems pretty solid. During our hands-on time, we were pretty impressed with how smooth and responsive it was. I don’t know how many developers it volition attract but it appears Samsung will aim bada devices at the low remainder of the market.

So, my computer-like brain tells me there’s a little bit of leftovers in Samsung’s mathematics. We know its going to make at least 1 Windows Phone 7 French telephone and we whitethorn see a Symbian device, too. I think it’s a solidness strategy to put option most of you resources stern a one chopine but distillery support others in order to covering fire your bases. Samsung also has a long ton of resources, so net ball’s promise it tin execute.

[Via Reuters, photo]

Of course of action, we probably would have had the same initial response as everyone else on the associated forums if we heard citizenry spouting off that they had received the Incredible nine years early. Screaming in loud letters, “Lies!” single drug user decided that they would be nice enough to post a video recording of the unboxing, and powering on of their new Droid Incredible.

Interesting, though, is the fact that the box still reads “HTC Incredible,” contempt the fact we know the device as organism officially called the Droid Incredible. Color us confused. Though, the “Droid” summation to the Incredible probably was a quick add-on before the official announcement, so we won’t hold it against Verizon. In any event, we’re hoping these lucky early owners ar enjoying their handsets!

[via Android Forums]

Remember the Nokia (New York Stock Exchange: NOK) Sports Tracker? We covered it on IntoMobile for quite a few multiplication in the past. It used to be Nokia’s own project and then it was spun off in a separate company – Sports Tracking Technologies, founded by the software’s master creators – Jussi Kaasinen and Ykд Huhtala.

Enough story. The distributor point is that the new version is out and that it’s compatible with Nokia’s touch-enabled smartphones with integrated Global Positioning System — including the Nokia N97, N97 mini, X6 and 5230.

The official diligence verbal description goes like this (from the Ovi Store):

Train better with the award-winning Sports Tracker app. Your phone becomes a full-featured Global Positioning System sports data processor, retention track of everything from calories burned while running to your norm cycling speeding over altitude. You get maps, time and length calculators, step enumeration, and even spirit rate when you manipulation a compatible HR belt. All information is stored in a journal so you can chart your progress, find your strengths and weaknesses, and share with others. Millions of downloads worldwide – union the squad.

Earlier versions of Sports Tracker allowed users to upload their data to the accompanying web service and compare the preparation results with the relaxation of the earth. At the moment, this edition doesn’t rich person that lineament, but volition be included soon. If you try to upload some data, you get a substance saying: “our completely renewed online overhaul for easy share-out and enhanced information visualization will be launched later, stay tuned for an update.” In the meantime, you tin always exportation your information to a number of formats…

Sports Tracker (FREE) [Ovi Store link]

[Via: AllAboutSymbian]

According to PhoneArena, they were sent an internal Best Buy document, stating that the HTC Incredible would be hit their store shelves on the 29th of Apr. That definitely fits with a Spring launch, and yes, that also way the Nexus One is probably launching somewhere near that date as well. Along with the leaked date, there’s also some diction at the big top that states the release date procedures for the device, so we’re thinking that this is the real number deal. However, what’s noteworthy about this, is that this could be just a C. H. Best Buy launch. Meaning, this whitethorn not be when Verizon Wireless is acquiring the HTC Incredible. Just like the Motorola Devour, Best Buy managed to wrangle the device almost II weeks in onward motion, and that could very fountainhead happen this time around, too. Or, it could be the other way around.

And then we’ve got a substance abuser manual that’s been leaked this good morning, citing some images of the HTC Incredible that we know and making love. You’ve got the Nexus One consistence, with the addition of an 8MP photographic camera on the back, along with the fact that you’ve got HTC’s Sense User Interface run over Android 2.1. Under the hood you’ve got the notoriously powerful 1GHz Snapdragon processor as fountainhead, to shuffling sure that your earpiece zips along. Oh, and it has that 3.7-inch WVGA AMOLED display, too. The user manual doesn’t really reveal much more, but that’s not too surprising. And no, it doesn’t confirm a freeing date, either.

[via PhoneArena and via Android Forums]

Shortly after a successful northland American rollout of BlackBerry Net Robert William Service 3.0 with OpenOffice support this weekend, we’re already seeing the first signs of BIS 3.1 by means of this device screenshot. Contact sync with Yahoo! is the only matter we can confirm from this shot, but Hotmail should employment too, and earlier rumours say that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Calendar syncing will also be built in to BIS 3.1 (rather than done through the third base-party Google Sync app). The gimmick-position e-chain mail frame-up webpage also has a bit of a facelift. We’re distillery waiting on two-means GMail sync through the Enhanced GMail plug-in, which will hopefully arrive before 3.1 does.

[via BBNews.pl]

[RT @cellguru]

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A fresh French telephone from asus has passed through the Federal Communications Commission, complete with 3G documentation on T-Mobile (NYSE: DT)’s 1700/2100 bands. asus’s briny interest in mobile these years has been in junction with Garmin for their joint nьvifone sword. Odds ar good that it will be running Android, but the lukewarm reception of the G60 on AT&ere;T has us a little worried about future products in the family unit. The concept of a smartphone that excels in Global Positioning System services and navigation is a solidness one, but depends entirely on the effectuation. With any luck, we’ll hear more at CES starting tomorrow.

[via CellPhone Signal]

As far as what the Nexus One’s bobtail does exactly, we have no estimate. Since the handset itself already sports Bluetooth, it’s probable that the Bluetooth radio in the dock will be used to control a home theatre system. In fact, a “connection diagram of trial system” shows the bobtail connected to a videodisk actor and a speaker, which makes a strong lawsuit for the Bluetooth bobtail organism a multimedia portal of some sort.

We’ll rich person to waiting for more launch inside information from Google (NSDQ: GOOG) before we know for sure what this bobtail actually does. But, if speculation about an early January launching from T-Mobile River and Google pans out, we won’t rich person to wait long before the Nexus One’s massive 3.7-inch capacitive touchscreen, 5-megapixel photographic camera, 1Ghz processor, Global Positioning System, wireless local area network and Android 2.1 operating organization – all courtesy of smartphone maker HTC – get functionary.

[Via: AndroidForums]