Any of our readers in the UK are lucky, as Carphone Warehouse is offering up the Samsung Nexus S for only £199.95. The phone is completely unlocked and SIM free, meaning there is no contract to be signed. Once the device is received, just pop in your SIM card and the phone should be good to go. Considering the phone is now updated to Ice Cream Sandwich, it is quite the steal.
The site is also offering a few other phones a discounted prices, and we doubt that the will last long. Most will probably jump on the Nexus S, as it has Android 4.0 and doesn’t cost as much as the flagship Galaxy Nexus. Are any of our UK-based readers planning on picking up the device? Found another great deal? Let us know in the comments!
US Cellular has announced their latest Android smartphone, the Huawei Ascend II which is designed to be a budget Android handset that will retail for free after a $2100 rebate when you take out a new contract with US Cellular.
The Huawei Ascend II features a 3.5 inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels, there is also a 600MHz processor, and it comes with Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
Other specifications on the Ascend II include a 5 megapixel cam,era and a 1,500 mAh battery, the device will also come with a 2GB microSD card slot and it will go on sale in January.
We heard yesterday that we may have to wait until February for Verizon to launch the new Motorola Droid 4, we had previously heard that the device may launch this week.
We still don’t have any more details on a launch date for the Droid 4, but the guys from Pocket now spotted the Droid 4 on the DroidDoes website and managed to get some screenshots of the device along with some specifications, which you can see below.
It would appear that Verizon may launch the Droid 4 some time this month, although this has yet to be confirmed by Verizon, as soon as we get some more information we will let you know.
Just a couple of days ago we heard of a legal Siri port for iOS 5-powered iPhone 4 devices that is in the works, wearing the name i4Siri and now here's another bit. Even though different, called Spire, it does the same thing: brings Siri to the iPhone 4.
Developers Grant Paul and Ryan Petrich unleashed a new tool "for installing Siri on previously unsupported, but jailbroken, devices". Spire will download 100MB worth of data from Apple's servers consisting of Siri itself (hence being legal) so make sure you run it while on WiFi. You can find Spire in the Cydia store but there's a catch.
In order to successfully use Siri on your iPhone 4 you will still need to use information from an iPhone 4S to authenticate with Apple (therefore you'll have to input your own proxy server address and also connect a 4S to it). While not an easy solution it is still a step forward for those waiting to talk to Siri on their pre-iPhone 4S.
