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Sprint has announced two new mobile devices from HTC coming on June 24. The new devices are the HTC EVO 3D mobile phone and the HTC EVO View 4G tablet. Both devices are powered by Android version 2.3 aka Gingerbread. Both HTC EVO mobile devices are capable of 4G data transfer speeds. The HTC EVO View 4G has WiMAX connectivity.

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The Samsung Indulge is the latest Cricket connected phone that is powered by the Android open mobile platform. It has a 3.5-inch HVGA TFT touch screen display and a QWERTY keyboard. The Samsung Indulge is loaded with Android version 2.2 aka Froyo plus all the other goodies made by Google like Google Maps, Youtube, Gmail and Google Talk to name a few. Of course you can always install additional apps on the Samsung Indulge.

Here’s some good news for HTC EVO™ 4G from Sprint customers. Sprint has announced that this coming Monday, June 6, they will receive the Android™ 2.3, Gingerbread, update through an over-the-air maintenance release. The update will be in batches so wait for your notification from Sprint. The notification will let users know the update is available and provide the simple two-step, over-the-air download instructions.

Can’t wait to get Android 2.3, there will be an easy user initiated option to download the upgrade starting on Friday, June 3. Just read this announcement.

T-Mobile is adding the Samsung Exhibit 4G and Samsung Gravity SMART QWERTY to its list of Android powered connected phones. The Samsung Exhibit 4G will be running on Android 2.3 aka Gingerbread while the Samsung Gravity will have Android 2.2 aka Froyo. The Samsung Exhibit has a 3.5-inch touch screen display. The Samsung Gravity has a 3.2-inch  touch screen display plus a QWERTY keyboard.

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Verizon and Samsung has officially announced that a 4G LTE version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 will join the ranks of Verizon’s Android enabled tablet offerings.

The Galaxy Tab 10.1 is Samsung’s newest Android Honeycomb enabled tablet. It uses a dual-core 1Ghz ARM cpu and is 8.6 millimeters thin. It has a 10.1 inch 1280×800 resolution HD screen, a 2-megapixel front-facing camera and a 3-megapixel rear-facing camera.

The Galaxy Tab 10.1 will be available in either Metallica Gray or Glossy White. An array of optional accessories such as a full-sized keyboard dock and a multi-media docking station will also be available.

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Sprint now offers the Google Nexus S 4G to US mobile phone users who wants a Google backed Android mobile phone. The Google Nexus S 4G comes loaded with Android version 2.3 aka Gingerbread. It is equipped with a 1GHz Samsung Hummingbird processor and a 4-inch 480×800 super Amoled display. The Google Nexus S 4G also comes with the standard array of Google mobile phone apps like Google Maps, Gmail, Gtalk, Google Earth, YouTube.

It also comes with Google Voice integrated with the Sprint network mobile number. This allows you to centrally manage your other phone numbers right from your Sprint connected phone.

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It looks like Virgin Mobile connected phone users who love to surf and access the Internet will be getting some good news soon. Judging for the Virgin Mobile USA’s page on FaceBook, it will soon be offering an unlimited mobile broadband on it’s Broadband2Go plans. From the image below, it looks like the unlimited mobile broadband will be offered at $40 for a 30-day period. This seems to include unlimited web browsing and email w/o attachments. Hope we can get clarification from Virgin Mobile if it includes video streaming as well.

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If you want to get an Android mobile phone and have currently a Telus connected phone waiting to get replaced, the HTC Desire Android phone may be just for you. The HTC branded Desire is similar in look and specifications to the Google Nexus One.

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Some pretty good news for mobile phone users connected to Virgin Mobile Canada. The mobile network provider is officially announcing that they are launcing it’s big move to HSPA+ speeds. At HSPA+, data connected phones can experience as much as 21 megabits per second of download speed and an upload speed of up to 5 Mbps.

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As if the recent problems of T-Mobile with it’s Danger / Sidekick users recently weren’t enough T-Mobile has another bigger problem to solve right now. It seems that all T-Mobile connected phones (at least a good majority of them if not all) is currently experience connection problems as T-Mobile via its Twitter account has posted a status that they are aware of the problem and doing their best to resolve the issue as soon as possible.

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