Additional features

* Verizon Wireless 4G LTE – Customers can expect fast download speeds of 5 to 12 megabits per second base (Mbps) and upload speeds of 2 to 5 Mbps in 4G LTE Mobile Broadband reporting areas

* Android™ 2.3.5 Gingerbread, to be upgraded to Android™ 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

* 4.0-inch qHD display with scratch and scrape resistant field glass

* Government-grade encryption (FIPS 140-2) for email, calendar and contacts; preloaded with Citrix® Receiver™ for Android (available in webtop) for desktop virtualization and access

* 8-megapixel camera with 1080p HD video capture

* Front-facing camera for video chat

* 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot supporting up to eight Wi-Fi-enabled devices

Business Ready

DROID 4 is designed to help customers get more done. Business professionals can impress their audience by presenting to a group discussion room full of potential customers in a centering by plugging the DROID 4 into an HDTV and presenting directly from the phone. Professionals can also combine the DROID 4 with the Lapdock 500 and its 14-inch exhibit to create a full-featured mobile berth. They can download documents, make edits exploitation Lapdock’s full keyboard and electronic mail the updated documents to colleagues or customers. The Lapdock even features a built-in webcam so customers can attend virtual meetings and manage their business face-to-face.

The Smart Actions app on the DROID 4 helps automate everyday tasks and optimizes battery efficiency by letting customers create rules, such as automatically setting the phone to vibrate during work hours or dimming the exhibit at a specific battery level.

Business professionals tin leave their laptops behind and use the MotoCast™ app to remotely stream documents, videos, music and pictures from their work or home computers to their handset. The remote access of MotoCast eliminates the motivation to storage documents on the handset as everything is stored on their office laptop.

Pricing and availability

* DROID 4 by Motorola will be available on Feb. 10 in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online at www.verizonwireless.com for $199.99 with a new two-year customer agreement.

* The Lapdock 500 is available in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online for $299.97.

* Customers that purchase a DROID 4 will need to subscribe to a Verizon Wireless Nationwide Talk plan beginning at $39.99 monthly access and a smartphone data package starting at $30 monthly access for 2 GB of data.

Unfortunately, Walmart only carried the 16GB Black and White versions of the iPhone 4 on both AT&T and Verizon versions. Of course of action, the customer required to get a new deuce days committal with either carriers. This gross sales starts now and only applied until June 30th (While wind sleeve last).

[via SlashGear]

The Samsung HM3200 is designed to reflect the Samsung Wave, and it has plenty of features to go around. The headset features mulitpoint technology, Bluetooth 2.1, the ability to check assault and battery floor, mike randomness simplification, and Samsung says it tin shoemaker’s last 4 and a one-half hours of you talking away into it. Apparently the HM3200 is exercise set to debut in June, which lines up pretty nicely for the Wave’s UK launching.

The Samsung HM1600 is set to be the perfect appurtenance for your Samsung Monte (and yes, as the effigy suggests, the colours do seem to match the Iron Man variant a bit more). The 1600 also features multipoint tech, Bluetooth 2.1, automatic book controller, microphone noise reduction, and it also has active voice pairing. While Samsung boasts that the headset volition shoemaker’s last for 6 hours of talk meter after a full mission, they’ve included a assault and battery floor check, too. It’s advent out later this month.

The ease of the crew includes: the HM1000 (which features 7 hours of talking meter), and the HM3100 which is the collaborator to the Samsung Galaxy S. It’s set to debut in June, and has 5 hours of talk meter. The Samsung HF1000 features 15 hours of talk time and a minimalist designing. And then there’s the WEP570, which has echo cancellation, and an additional USB interface so you can charge devices while you’ve got it in your car.

And finally, there’s the Samsung HM3500, which is the top of the line. It’s able to employment in a ace-auricle position, but then it tin also be connected to a headset to utilize the cyclosis, stereo system audio. It’s coming out in June, too. All of the headsets should come in a price cooking stove varying between $40 and $100, depending on what Samsung decides in the last minute before launch.

[via Pocket-Lint]

The iPad is a great gimmick for casually surfboarding the vane and potentially acquiring some work done while suspension out at a cafe or on the couch. But, the matter about the iPad is that it currently is only available in wireless local area network-only trim. That means you’ll either rich person to bounds yourself to your living way, or frequent caffein-selling establishments with WiFi service. That is, unless you have a Sprint (New York Stock Exchange: S) MiFi or Sprint Overdrive 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot. In that lawsuit, you tin go nearly anywhere in the US and always have a radio internet joining handy. If you’re in a Sprint 4G market, you’ll even get 4G information speeds up to 10x faster than 3G. So, it makes sense that Sprint is push their Overdrive onto iPad customers. To that end, the aircraft carrier has just announced they’ll be gift away their new iPad lawsuit for free at participating C. H. Best Buy stores.

The Sprint iPad lawsuit features a little pocket that you tin manipulation to hold your Sprint Overdrive. That means, you never lose running of the hockey puck-sized wireless modem, and you’ll always be sure to rich person an internet joining for your WiFi-only iPad. The troupe is giving away 10,000 of these cases at select C. H. Best Buy stores (likely those in 4G markets) while supplies shoemaker’s last. The promotion started on Apr 17, so you’d do wellspring to smash up your local Best Buy to grab a lawsuit before they run out!

For consultation, Sprint has 4G up and run in 28 US cities, including as battle of Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas/Ft. Charles Frederick Worth, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Portland, Ore., San Antonio and Seattle. In 2010, Sprint plans to rich person more markets advent online with 4G, including Hub of the Universe, Cincinnati, Grover Cleveland, Denver, Kansa City, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and St. Joe Louis. For more info on Sprint 4G markets, hit up this website.

More information on the Sprint iPad case and the Overdrive here.

After launching the iPhone version, SPB Software is delivery its SPB TV app to webOS devices. Actually, it’s just the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre and Pre Plus that will sing along the diligence until microcode 1.4.1 becomes available for the Pixi and Pixi Plus users.

As you probably already know, SPB TV brings publicly available digital TV channels from all over the earthly concern to the thenar of your hand. There’s a handy picture-in-painting quick distribution channel trailer feature, integrated TV templet and quite a few channels to choose from.

Like that was the case with the iPhone version, the one for webOS devices is also free – it’s ad supported, with advertisement organism shown piece the flow is buffering when you open a new distribution channel.

If you want SPV TV on your Palm Pre/Pre Plus — and there’s really no reason not to try it out — simpleton search for the application in Palm’s App Catalog and payoff it from there. It’s that easy.

The Samsung u820 is a 3-inch, WQVGA touchscreen, with physical QWERTY yellow-bellied terrapin action. It also has a 3.2MP photographic camera on the backrest, with video gaining control, 3.5mm headset jack, MicroSD circuit board one-armed bandit, full hypertext markup language browser, and full Microsoft Exchange email documentation. That photographic camera and full keyboard should come in handy, as Samsung is retention up with this whole thing social net integration thing. The u820 include a widget called Communities, where you’ll be able to update your status, as well as billet pictures to all your sociable networking sites. It also features WouchWiz 2.0 for good measure.

While the phone whitethorn not be that nice on the eyes, it will get the occupation done for most customers. Especially for teenagers who motivation to be connected with their social sites at all times of the twenty-four hours. Verizon Wireless is the carrier of selection for this little nugget of delight, and it will cost you somewhere in the park between $80 and $100 with a new (2-year) agreement. If this device is for you, you’ll have to wait until Apr 30th, when it should officially smash store shelves.

[via PhoneScoop, effigy via CNET]

Recession? What recession! Tesco, which is the leadership UK Supermarket chain (with stores everywhere) is continuing it’s iPhone pricing offence in to the New Year, with the news that it’s even easier to buy the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS. How you mightiness ask? Well, they’ve set up a toll-free people (for all our US readers) number (0800 figure, for those in the UK), which you can ring to get the iPhone double-fast – or at least quite fasting, anyway.

I haven’t been privy to any of Tesco’s sales figures since launch, but it is worth mentioning they do offer their own tariffs to go with it (just in case you were thinking the twist was only being sold on shelves sim-free people), since they ar also an MVNO – utilising the O2 (New York Stock Exchange: TEF) mesh. I wealthy person to say, for me, it’s not somewhere I’d immediately consider going to buy the iPhone, were it not for the fact that the tariffs are quite unusual compared with the other networks.

Tesco have a radically simplified tariff structure, and only two tariffs – so really it’s quite simpleton to figure out which suits your needs better. One is first monthly rate, shortstop duration contract bridge, and the other is pretty much the opposite word. Tesco have also subsidised the iPhone slightly differently because of these tariffs, but I’d wager there’s not too much in it when you multiply out all the numbers pool – Apple have been quite keen to ‘fix’ (and I father’t mean value illegally) the price of their device relatively consistently between Operators. Anyhow, below is the simpleton duty construction – if you want to check-out procedure out more info on the oblation, you can go here.

The suggestion therefore is that not many of the devices rich person been sold, compared to the volumes that were expected – which is a puzzler since every follow-up I’ve seen praised the Pre in many respects.

That said, my personal view was that everything on the UI was great, but as soon as you pressed a push button that made a call option in to the operating system (e.g. ’computer storage contact’), things slowed down feather quite a bit…

I oasis’t yet seen the details of exactly what the deal is, but I’d suspect it’s going to be rather restrictive – much like those deals you see in newspapers from time to time. If retailers are able to give away a PS3 with a device on contract, then perhaps we could estimate the two tickets ar maybe worth around Ј200-300 in value between them? That’s not departure to get you too far methinks

Check out the article in the Guardian here.

A new Samsung Jet microcode is floating around the Interwebs, claiming to deliver overall execution step-up. Firmware variant S8000XEII2 packs several improvements, including:

The Dolphin vane browser and media browser now work faster. 3D Cube interface has got a new background along with new widgets: Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. Media player supports landscape painting orientation course, and also rocks an improved port.

The new Jet microcode is still not officially available — at least we oasis’t caught any info from Samsung — but thanks to the goodness ol’ gray channels you don’t rich person to waiting. Simply grab the file from here and takings it from there…

[Via: SamsungHub]

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