As reported here on Cell Phones Etc. and across the Web, here’s your daily brief on what happened in the world of mobile phones this Wednesday, February 9th 2011.
Verizon iPhone 4 Now Available to Order
After a long, long wait, and a very short pre-order period last week, Verizon customers can finally order an iPhone 4 on both Verizon’s and Apple’s website. The estimated shipment date on both websites is listed as February 18.
Mashable
HP unveils the HP Veer and HP Pre 3 webOS smartphones
HP has just unveiled their latest webOS smartphone offerings, the Pre 3 and Veer. The Pre 3 boasts of a 1.4Ghz Snapdragon processor, 5-megapixel camera with 720p video recording, front-facing camera, and a more powerful 1230mAh battery, while the Veer is powered by an 800Mhz processor complemented by 512MB RAM, a 5-MP camera, with a weaker 910mAh battery.
GSMArena
HP’s Touch to Share eyes-on, starring the TouchPad and HP Pre 3 (video)
One of the unique new features of HP’s fresh batch of webOS devices is Touch to Share. This nifty new feature allows users to share data such as a URL being loaded in the browser between the Pre 3 and the TouchPad wirelessly by simply tapping the device to one another. Here’s a demo video of it live in action.
Engadget
Video: TELUS LTE demo…records download speed of 73.9 Mbps
Yesterday, Telus announced they’ll be going live with their 4G network in March. Today, we now have a demo of it live in action, and I must say, it’s quite impressive.
Mobilesyrup
CityFido Prepaid dropping by $5/month March 6th… plus doubling minutes to 2,000
Here’s good news for CityFido Prepaid users. Beginning March 6th, they’ll be droping its price to just $39.75/month, inclusive of 911 fees, while doubling the minutes to 2,000 at the same time as well. That’s $5 worth of savings per month with twice the free minutes, not bad.
Mobilesyrup
