| Cricket and RadioShack confirm No-Contract Wireless, ship two Huawei phones to celebrate Sep 4th 2012, 23:07  RadioShack might have had a difficult time keeping a lid on its partnership with Cricket, but that doesn't mean we aren't interested in the official news. Launching under the expected RadioShack No-Contract Wireless banner, the unfettered phone service includes lets shoppers pick either $25 or $35 plans for basic feature phones or, more importantly, some tempting $50 and $60 smartphone plans. On top of unlimited domestic voice and messaging, these last two rates offer a respective 1GB and 2.5GB of data before throttling kicks in, with hotspot support, international text messaging and visual voicemail reserved for the highest-end tier. You'll find just two Huawei phones if you wander into a RadioShack store for the Wednesday launch: the $40 Pillar, a keyboard-touting basic phone, and a white-tinged, $150 Mercury Ice that iterates on the Android 2.3-toting Mercury only in the change of color. We're promised two additional, unnamed phones before the end of the month, and smartphones on the No-Contract service will be the only Cricket devices shipping with 8GB microSDHC cards to feed that Muve Music habit. The nitty-gritty of the hardware and plans await after the break. Continue reading Cricket and RadioShack confirm No-Contract Wireless, ship two Huawei phones to celebrate Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile Cricket and RadioShack confirm No-Contract Wireless, ship two Huawei phones to celebrate originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments | | Avid Studio for iPad gets renamed, free on the App Store for a limited period of time Sep 4th 2012, 22:51  Avid Studio for iPad arrived back in February, priced to coax iPad filmmakers away from Apple's in-house iMovie. Since then, however, the company sold its consumer business arm to Corel, leading it to re-brand the package as Pinnacle Studio for iPad. The editing app has gained a bunch of features that users were clamoring for, including 1080p support, integrated uploads to Box and a raft of stability tweaks. As part of the change, it's being offered free for a limited time, so if you own an iPad (or plan on getting one in the future), we suggest you jump-cut to the App Store pretty quickly. Filed under: Tablets, Software Avid Studio for iPad gets renamed, free on the App Store for a limited period of time originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink  Pro Video Coalition |  iTunes, Pinnacle | Email this | Comments | | JBL freshens its portable speakers with Micro II, Bluetooth-toting Flip and Micro Wireless Sep 4th 2012, 22:22  JBL has been on a wireless speaker kick lately -- it might as well throw some truly portable models into the equation. Accordingly, two of the three speakers it's shipping today, the Flip and Micro Wireless, sport Bluetooth audio and a 5-hour battery to cut the cord. The Flip (seen above) is the multi-talented athlete of the bunch: its design can work either upright or on its side to stuff into small spaces, and a built-in mic provides speakerphone duties. The Micro Wireless' puck shape isn't as clever, but it fits a standard 3.5mm input jack and space to clip to a carabiner or lanyard. Both these and the Micro Wireless' strictly wired counterpart, the Micro II, have a bass port to improve the low-end frequencies that are so often missing in this class of speaker. Prices may be the real incentives here: the Flip is the most expensive of the trio at $99, while the Micro Wireless and Micro II are even lighter on the wallet at respective $59 and $39 price points. Continue reading JBL freshens its portable speakers with Micro II, Bluetooth-toting Flip and Micro Wireless Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Audio/Video JBL freshens its portable speakers with Micro II, Bluetooth-toting Flip and Micro Wireless originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | JBL (Flip), (Micro Wireless), (Micro II) | Email this | Comments | | Sony Xperia T shown on UK's Phones4U... with AT&T branding Sep 4th 2012, 21:51  Seeing the trademark AT&T globe brandished on the front of the Sony Xperia T may simply pass as a pleasant surprise for US customers if it were leaked through a Stateside e-tailer, but the GSM giant's logo popping up on a UK website is more of a head-scratcher. Yet, as you can see in the shot above, the Phones4U image of the new Xperia flagship (likely the TX, in this case) sports the famous icon below the screen, in place of the traditional Xperia branding. To add more fuel to the rumor fire, the back of the AT&T-ized variant is broken up into three segments, setting it apart from the international version's one-piece. Naturally we remain skeptics on the matter, but the two pieces of evidence at least hold a little more weight than your standard website blunder. Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless, Mobile Sony Xperia T shown on UK's Phones4U... with AT&T branding originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Android Central | Phones4U | Email this | Comments | |
