Although O2 (New York Stock Exchange: TEF)’s launching of the HTC Desire mightiness be postponed to mid-May, U.S. Cellular won’t be too far behind, saying that we can expect the Android 2.1 beast in July.  U.S. Cellular had previously announced the phone, but apparently folks were acquiring it mixed up with the Droid Eris. Hera’s what U.S. Cellular had to say:

Hungry for more Android information? How about a peek at some spectacles for the gorgeous HTC Desire including a 3.7″ AMOLED touchscreen exhibit, 5 MP photographic camera with LED flash bulb, Wi-Fi, Global Positioning System, Android Market and an 8 GB microSD circuit board. How about newsworthiness of a launching appointment around July? We’ll need to shuffle sure our rigorous examination is complete before you can get your custody on this sweetness phone. Stay tuned here for more exclusive Android updates!

It’s looking to be a beaut, second only to the HTC Incredible. No price distributor point yet, but considering whatchamacallit like the Evo volition be going for $200 on contract bridge, it wouldn’t be too much to expect this unity at $150 or less.

[Facebook via Phonedog]

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]

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]

While T-Mobile USA covers the Android Market for direct-to-nib payments, Verizon Wireless is expanding the service to touching on pretty much anything you’d leverage in a digital format. At least, that’s what it seems like from the press release. However, to be more accurate, it seems that there volition be a washables list of participating websites that volition jump on the “BilltoMobile” bandwagon. From there, Verizon Wireless customers will be able to use their FiOS connections from home, or their mobile phones to make purchases from those websites just by clicking on the “BilltoMobile” push button. Easy enough.

Verizon Wireless is working directly with Danal to bring the “BilltoMobile” platform to existence. Danal is the leading eCommerce supplier out there, and specialize in delivery payments directly to customer bills. So, it’s good that Verizon is working with the topper to get this done. As the press liberation states, Verizon Wireless and Danal ar teaming up with a lot of different digital sites, from the social media linear perspective all the means to the mobile gambling sites, but they aren’t leaving into detail quite yet. The service is exercise set to launching this Spring, and considering we’re just a duet years into the time of year, we might have a duet weeks to waiting. At least you know it’s coming, right? Anyone out there leaving to use the service? Full press liberation just below.

VERIZON WIRELESS PLANS ECOMMERCE MOBILE PAYMENT SERVICE

Coming This Spring, Customers Can Choose to Bill Online Digital Purchases to their Wireless Accounts Using BilltoMobile™ from Danal

Basking Ridge, N.J., capital of South Korea, Korean Peninsula, and San Jose, Calif. (March 22, 2010) – Verizon Wireless and Danal, Inc., the global groundbreaker and drawing card in charging eCommerce transactions directly to mobile phone accounts, said today that Verizon Wireless plans to launch Danal’s BilltoMobile™ defrayal service later this saltation, enabling Verizon Wireless customers to mission online purchases of digital goods directly to their monthly Verizon Wireless bills.

Verizon Wireless customers will be able to remuneration for online subject and digital commodity that are downloaded and consumed on their personal computers from Danal’s participating network of popular eCommerce merchandiser partners. A secure joining and integration between Verizon Wireless and Danal will provide features important to online consumers and merchants, including robust contributor certification and fraud tribute, among others.

The mobile defrayal overhaul volition feature a $25-per-month spending limit for these purchases, along with content and parental controls for individual accounts, giving story owners the power to manage their BilltoMobile usage. When available, customers with textual matter electronic messaging-enabled phones will be able to shop class quickly, securely and conveniently for Verizon Wireless-approved subject at online stores, including game sites, social networks and virtual worlds. Users will also be able to leverage subscriptions to popular online games.

“Verizon Wireless strives to bring its customers services and features they wish and that shuffle their lives simpler,” said Ryan Charles Evans Hughes, frailty president of stage business development at Verizon Wireless. “Working with Danal will give our customers the opportunity to shuffle direct online mobile payments with the most secure, lineament-rich, convenient method available.”

“Verizon Wireless is combination the widget of the mobile phone and its strong billing platforms to provide their customers with a convenient mobile payment pick,” remarked Jim Greenwell, honcho administrator officer of Danal, Inc. in the United States. “Verizon Wireless is the bellwether service provider in this quad, and we see this correspondence will likely be the beginning of a change in the industry’s approach to online mobile payments – ace that involves ease of use and strong security for subscribers’ mobile payments, as well as robust drug user controls that volition assistance individual subscribers and families manage their digital purchases and digital lives.”

The BilltoMobile payment service is simpleton for consumers. To doings a transaction, consumers click on the BilltoMobile button during check at a participating online Web web site and then stimulant their mobile numbers and mobile billing zip codes for subscriber certification. A textual matter message is then sent to consumers’ mobile phones with a one-time passcode. Once consumers input this passcode into the online checkout windowpane, the transaction is completed. The entire procedure takes about 15 seconds, and there is no pre-enrollment or golf course to credit cards or bank building accounts required. In Korean Peninsula, where Danal is the dominant mobile payments supplier – and where credit board incursion rates are even higher than in the United States – 80 percent of all mobile subscribers rich person elect to manipulation direct mobile billing, and up to 60 percentage of all online digital content purchases in Korea ar now billed directly to mobile accounts.

BilltoMobile is now partnering with prominent online merchants in the United States, including popular online biz publishers, virtual worlds, social networks, and other sites merchandising digital items, subject and services online. The attractive merchandiser fees associated with the BilltoMobile payment service, which are significantly lower than traditional mobile billing rates, along with strong security measures and merchandiser backrest situation tools, is creating a major network of participating online sites. Danal volition be announcing some of its signed merchant agreements in the near future.

About Verizon Wireless Verizon Wireless operates the nation’s most reliable and largest wireless part and 3G information network, service more than 91 million customers. Headquartered in Basking Ridge, N.J., with 83,000 employees nationwide, Verizon Wireless is a joint speculation of Verizon Communications (New York Stock Exchange, National Association of Securities Dealers Automat: VZ) and Vodafone (LSE, NASDAQ: VOD). For more information, sojourn www.verizonwireless.com. To preview and request program-quality video recording footage and high-resolution stills of Verizon Wireless trading operations, log on to the Verizon Wireless Multimedia Library at www.verizonwireless.com/multimedia.

About Danal, Inc. and BilltoMobile™ Danal, Inc. is a privately held, majority-owned troupe of Danal Co., Ltd – the global groundbreaker and drawing card in direct mobile charge for eCommerce. Based in the Silicon Valley, Danal, Inc. also gained early investiture support from Morgenthaler Ventures, ace of the oldest and premier US venture capital firms. BilltoMobile™ is an alternate payment technology providing mobile subscribers with the ability to mission online purchases from approved merchants to their mobile phone nib. Established in 2000, Korea-based Danal Co., Ltd has launched the direct mobile billing overhaul globally with 14 mobile attack aircraft carrier integrations throughout South Korea, Taiwan, and Communist China that have together processed over $2 one thousand million dollars in transactions with over ten thousand merchant partners.

The LG VS750 is a worldly concern phone: global roaming for the States volition be handled by EVDO Rev.A, and quadband GSM with UMTS/HSPA for the ease of the worldly concern (mostly). So, it’s running Windows Mobile 6.5.3, which agency it’s only slightly better than 6.5. But, when we get to the physical characteristics is when we beginning to lose our faith in the French telephone. We’re looking at a 3.2-inch resistive touchscreen; 3.2MP photographic camera with VGA transcription; WiFi b/g; with 512MB of flash memory and 256MB of RAM. It’s also got a MicroSD card one-armed bandit, where you can expand the computer memory to 16GB. It’s also got a full, QWERTY keyboard that slides out.

We’re not expression that this is a bad phone; but we are just expecting more. Considering how well capacitive touchscreens employment in general, coupling it with Windows Mobile River 6.5.3 seems like the right field thing to do. And while it’s great that Verizon Wireless will be including a stylus in the package, we hatred exploitation them. So . . . Just give us better touchscreens. Oh, and while you’re looking at that picture, please short letter the 3 buttons. Yes, this agency that the buttons won’t be the understanding this gimmick gets excluded from a Windows Phone 7 Series rise. It’s that screen, along with the slow processor that we’re sure is powreing this thing. So, if you’re hoping to get this and then eventually see an rise to the flashy new OS later this year, this is not the device you wish to choice up. You’ve been warned.

[via SlashGear]

Mail-in rebates are a painful sensation in the nookie because one-half the metre you forget about it, and sometimes it just never comes. Verizon (New York Stock Exchange: VZ) Wireless feels your painful sensation and it has dropped the mail-in rebates for the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre Plus and Pixi when you order online. You can now get the Pre for $149 and the Pixi for $79 with a new two-class contract. If you’re choosing between the two, definitely go with the Pre.

I’ve had the chance to spend some real time with Verizon Pre lately and I’m really liking it. The tiny keyboard is still too goody for my liking and I would kill for an on-blind keyboard, but I am absolutely in love with webOS. There’s a fluidness and elegance to the platform that is unmatched by anything out there. The sailing takes a routine to get used to but then it becomes brain-bogglingly intuitive. The computer hardware’s a bit underpowered though, so there’s some retardation but the webOS vision is a affair of beauty. I’d distillery probably wealthy person a hard time committing to the Pre for II days because the developer support isn’t quite there and Palm is hurting financially.

[Via Phonescoop]

The Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Nexus One is already available on T-Mobile River U. S. Army and volition soon strike Verizon (NYSE: VZ)’s meshing as the gotta-have Android phone of the year, but AT&ere;T (NYSE: T) has been conspicuously missing. That is, until today – an AT&ere;T 3G-compatible version of the Nexus One has just popped up on the Federal Communications Commission’s website, hinting at the possible action that Google will soon release a new Nexus One variant capable of pulling down 3G information on AT&T’s radio network. If true, the Nexus One volition be available on terzetto out of the four top US radio carriers – Sprint (New York Stock Exchange: S), it seems, is organism left field out of the party for now.

Engadget is reporting today that the Federal Communications Commission has unveiled a new identification label for an as-yet-unannounced Nexus One variant. The label you see on the right (above graphic) lists an ID number that corresponds to the current T-Mob-ified Nexus One. The recording label on the left field sports an ID number that differs by a single dactyl, indicating that it’s a variant of the original. FCC doctor also confirm that the new variant supports 3G on WCDMA Bands I, II, and V, making it compatible with 3G bands used by AT&ere;T in the US. From the looks of it, the Nexus One is headed to AT&T!

Although Google has previously neglected to honorable mention AT&T as a partner for their Nexus One, it makes gumption to surface up Google’s first own-branded Android phone to a wider marketplace. Unless, that is, we’re looking at a label for the “Moogle” phone (Nexus Two).

[Engadget via: PhoneDog]

Flirtomatic (a popular social mobile inspection and repair) has decided to release an app for the iPhone – and it’s available at the very reasonable price of free!

Once downloaded, the Flirtomatic iPhone diligence allows users to take all of 20 seconds to exercise set up a profile and commencement chatting.  Users tin can also:

- Search over 1.8 one thousand thousand hot profiles.  Find citizenry who live nearby and search by grammatical gender, age, interests, and flirt preference. - Chat Live – Fire off messages for free, or send a virtual gift, kiss, wink or supersnog to start a conversation.  Users tin can also send a “flirtbomb” to smasher many flirts in one go – and vigil the responses come in. – Buy their own user-generated publicizing in the Look At Me surgical incision, where they play in real number-metre auctions, 24 hours a solar day, to get more aid than any rivals. – Browse the big top-rated gallery to uncovering the most popular, the most snogged, and the most generous people on Flirtomatic.  Check out full profiles and photos or create your own. – Tons of extras – Rate your favorites, uncovering out who’s rated you, see who’s checked you out, see who’s online right field now, delete freak ratings, and much more.

Flirtomatic depicted object is screened to have a PG evaluation, so there’s nothing inappropriate and no grownup advertising. The site actively moderates and approves all depicted object, which I think is a good move, and should earn Flirtomatic a dab on the back.

You can find Flirtomatic for the iPhone now on the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iTunes Store.  In addition to the iPhone, Flirtomatic is available to mobile users in the U.K., Germany, Commonwealth of Australia and the U.S. through partnerships with Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), T-Mobile (New York Stock Exchange: DT), and Orange River. Flirtomatic also offers Web access, so users tin can flirt at any time and from anywhere.

Flirtomatic / Јfree [iTunes link]

RIM continues to refresh its verizon_wireless_dumps_blackberry_storm_os_4_7_0_141_8230_for_now_.html’ title=’Verizon Wireless Dumps BlackBerry Storm OS 4.7.0.141… For Now.’>BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) batting order with optical trackpads to replace the trackball “bone” that has become almost synonymous with the BlackBerry brand. The latest BlackBerry to get the optical trackpad handling is the BlackBerry Tour2 9650 (codename: Essex), and it’s look goodness. Thanks to pics posted by BGR, we tin see that the Tour2 looks almost exactly like its BlackBerry Tour predecessor, save for the optical trackpad that replaces the trackball.

The Tour2 also packs a faster mainframe that does away with a draw of the lag in the original Tour. And, with WiFi now on board, the Tour2 brings its lineament exercise set up to speed with other smartphones in its class. The Tour2 feels more “snappy” now, according to BGR. Fans of the Tour’s impressive keyboard volition be happy to hear that it makes an appearance on the Tour2.We don’t know the monetary value or launching schedule, but expect to see the Tour2 advent to Verizon (NYSE: VZ) in early 2010.

Check out BGR’s custody-on gallery here.

[Via: Electronista]