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Droid Incredible Shortages Will End — On June 22nd

Stefan Etienne — Sun, 30 May 2010 17:08:34 +0000

As seen on the Droid Incredible’s product page on Verizon’s website, shipments for the sold-out and under-produced Droid Incredible by HTC will be available to your ever needy Android phone buying needs. Originally it was supposed be in the middle of next month (read: the shipment delays would end), but it’s been pushed to the 22nd of June, for unknown reasons. But would you really get the Droid Incredible, with the exciting EVO 4G launch looming on the 4th?

Source: Phandroid, Verizon

Verizon LG Ally Delayed By A Week For Reasons Unknown

Stefan Etienne — Sat, 22 May 2010 15:22:13 +0000

The Verizon LG Ally is nothing special, but it’s a so-so okay Android 2.1 slider with a 3.2-inch multitouch screen, but for a very special price of $99. Availability was labeled as May 20th by Verizon and LG, but guess what? It’s been delayed. By a week, as seen in the LG Ally Forums:

Dear Valued Customer,

This notification is to inform you that Verizon Wireless has received your pre-order of the LG Ally. We have extended the pre-order period for the LG Ally until May 26th.

Since you have pre-ordered, you will be the first to receive the phone upon initial availability on or after May 27th.

We appreciate your business, and we will send you another confirmation email as soon as your LG Ally ships.

Sincerely,

Verizon Wireless

Like I said, the LG Ally isn’t a major Android phone, but it’s been delayed, which is still annoying. Darn you Iron Man 2!

Sprint Hero and Samsung Moment Android 2.1 update delayed till “Q2 2010″

Stefan Etienne — Sat, 08 May 2010 02:39:39 +0000

There are strange things that companies do, then there’s what Sprint is doing with the Samsung Moment and Sprint Hero. Both devices yearn to be freed from the ever-so-old grasp of Android 1.6 and Android 1.5, respectively. But noooo, Sprint just keeps on delaying the update, again, and again, and again. Hopefully though, as according to Sprint themselves for the thousandth time, is hope:

According to a message posted on the Sprint Community Forums, all hope for th erumored May 7th Android 2.1 firmware rollout has been well, crushed:

“We wanted to let you know that Sprint continues to work closely with Samsung and HTC to deliver the highly anticipated Android 2.1 upgrade for Samsung Moment and HTC Hero. We are on track for the upgrade to be available in Q2. Sprint had hoped to have this resolved by now – we thank our customers for their patience as we work to bring them a positive experience with this upgrade.“

So while this is very unacceptable, there are benefits of the doubt for Sprint. For example, there could be some bugs that need thinning out (an excuse I made for them, yeah). But still, there remains the fact that for another month or so, since we’re in Q2 2010 now (April-June), users will be left with rusty 1.x versions of Android. Another sign that if there’s only one thing that will kill the platform as a whole: it’s fragmentation.

Via: PhoneDog

HP Slate is a piece of dead meat too (nearly)

Stefan Etienne — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:36:25 +0000

Aww, come on Microsoft! First the Courier gets the good ‘ol boot, and now the HP Slate gets the slapping as well? According to my not-so-well-acquainted colleague Mike Arrington over at TechCrunch, the HP Slate is dead, much like the Courier and was confirmed by sources also in the know about the project. Not only this would be the biggest flop I’ve seen with my eyes in the mobile industry, but would be an enormous disappointment by HP as a company. I’ve reached out to HP for comment, and will update this post if I hear from them.

Delayed: iPad Wi-Fi + 3G shipping on May 7th

Stefan Etienne — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:05:05 +0000

In wake of the recent European launch delay, the iPad 3G (you know, with AT&T’s shoddy service, even though the iPad’s is prepaid) the iPad 3G U.S version was due for release “at the end of April”. Well, guess what friends? It’s delayed! Fortunately, the May 7th launch date only seems to be for those of you who didn’t pre-order your 3G iPad; those that did should still get their devices at the end of April.

Source: Apple