Canada’s Virgin Mobile connected phone gets HSPA+

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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T-Mobile G1, G2 — now it’s G3 coming soon

Europe is so cool! Well not only do I love all the beautiful places in Europe but they also get to try out the newest connected phones. We all know that the Android G2 aka HTC Magic mobile phone is already on its way. T-Mobile, still not satisfied with a couple has now planned for a third Android mobile phone.

Yup, got that right a G3! It seems the T-Mobile G3 will be coming from Huawei and is scheduled for a July 2009 release. From the looks of it, the G3 will be an Android phone for the low-cost mass market. Although these days, the definition of a low cost phone is also becoming more of what I’d call a connected phone. Initial specs seem to include a 5-megapixel camera, headphone jack and wifi.