Verizon subscribers can now get almost any smartphone offered by VZW (except Samsung Saga) for just $99 on a 2-year contract. That includes both HTC's Touch Pro and Touch Diamond. What does it mean? That Touch Pro 2 and Touch Diamond 2 are on their way, I guess.
Verizon is likely to release a new QWERTY slider on August 15th. The Samsung u960 "Rogue" is a replacement for the Glyde model, and will be available at an "attractive and competitive" price, according to the source. Well, it looks good, packs a decent set of features - what else could you want?
And here's the first shot of the upcoming Motorola Sholes (or Shules) Android smartphone for Verizon. Maybe the blurry spyshot is to blame, but the handset here looks pretty unappealing, don't you think? And that red D-pad is just awful...
Motorola is known for prepping up a new sliding QWERTY Android handset for Verizon (the first Android phone to be offered this carrier) sometime later this year. But it's not Calgary, as we originally assumed.
The device will be called the Motorola Shules, and according to the Motofan.ru site will be released on Verizon this Ocotober.
Alongside the BlakcBerry8520 that's ready to be launched on T-Mobile and Vodafone, there will be a new 8530 model, which is destined to become RIM's new low-end CDMA QWERTY handset. According to Boy Genius Report, it will sport the following features:
According to the Street, tipped by an anonymous Motorola employee, the company is planning to release an Android powered handset on Verizon in the 4th quarter of 2009.
We suppose the said handset is the upcoming CDMA Motorola Calgary, which was unveiled back in April. It comes with a full QWERTY keyboard and runs Android OS, but that's basically all we know about it atm.
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