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- Angry Birds Coming To Windows Phone 7 On April 6th
- Samsung Temporarily Cancels Android 2.2 (Froyo) Update For Sprint Epic 4G
- iOS 4.3 To Go Gold Next Week?
- HTC Thunderbolt Pushed Back To March 4th Or Later?
- iFixit tears apart the Galaxy S 4G, sets it on fire
- Sprint’s First Windows Phone 7 Device, The HTC Arrive, Launches March 20th For $200
| Angry Birds Coming To Windows Phone 7 On April 6th Posted: 24 Feb 2011 02:03 PM PST
If your Windows Phone 7 handset was one of the unfortunate few that got bricked by Microsoft’s little-update-that-couldn’t, you’re going to want to get that fixed quick. At the very latest, you’re going to want to have things all patched up by April 6th. Why? Because it’s Angry Birds Time!
Rovio’s Peter Vesterbacka confirmed last week at Mobile World Congress that the Birds were comin’ to Windows Phone 7, but he couldn’t get too specific about the launch date. Microsoft went ahead and filled in the gaps, with this post on the Windows Team Blog promising that Angry Birds and 5 other big-name titles (Doodle Jump, Plants Vs Zombies, geoDefense, Sonic The Hedgehog Ep: 1, and Hydro Thunder Go) will be hitting on April 6th. For those new to Angry Birds, just remember: Take a break every 15-30 minutes to stretch your legs, rehydrate, and rest your eyes. If you start to feel cold when you’re not playing Angry Birds, it’s important to get help.
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| Samsung Temporarily Cancels Android 2.2 (Froyo) Update For Sprint Epic 4G Posted: 24 Feb 2011 10:47 AM PST  Samsung just can’t catch a break this week when it comes to updates. First the Windows Phone 7 update mysteriously bricks a bunch of Samsung handsets, and Microsoft pretty much lays the blame on Samsung’s lap. Now they’re having issues with getting the Sprint Epic 4G updated to Froyo. The word comes from Sprint’s support forum, where a company rep claims that an “increased number of calls into Care” has lead to the update being canned “until a resolution for these issues is in place”. The issues they’re speaking of all seem to focus around spotty data connectivity and SD Card accessibility issues. Either one would be a bummer — but they’re still a lot better than handset brickage. Having issues? Try giving your handset a hard reset (after backing up your stuff, of course.) While that’s never a welcome solution, it seems to fix the issue. [Via Android Central]
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| Posted: 24 Feb 2011 09:35 AM PST
Oh, rumor mill — how you tug at our heart strings. Early this month, the ol’ mill was promising that iOS 4.3 would be hitting our iPhones and iPads on Valentine’s Day. Alas, while Valentine’s Day brought plenty of things (cheap chocolates for some, lonely hangovers for others), iOS 4.3 wasn’t one of’em. Weeks have passed since, and 4.3 is still nowhere in sight. According to BGR, the iOS team is wrapping things up right this second, with plans to release things in finalized form (be it to everyone or just developers isn’t clear right now) next week or so. How conveniently timed! Want to know what’s new in iOS 4.3? Here’s our list.
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| HTC Thunderbolt Pushed Back To March 4th Or Later? Posted: 24 Feb 2011 07:31 AM PST
If we were going by Verizon’s own announcements, the HTC Thunderbolt and it’s big ol’ Android-powered screen would have hit the shelves by mid-February. And yet, nothing; a quick glance at Verizon’s current smartphone line-up makes nary a mention of the Thunderbolt, and the dedicated Thunderbolt page is still promising info “before it hits” to anyone who will fork over an e-mail address. According to one Best Buy store out of Roseville, CA (or, as us Bay Area jerks call it, “Where?”), the Thunderbolt has quietly slipped back to a launch date of March 4th or later. No matter how you look at it, March 4th doesn’t quite fit within the “mid-February” window. So, why the delay? Are they giving their shiny new iPhone more room to breath? Are they worried about the new MacBook Pro’s Thunderbolt feature confusing folks? The world may never know.
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| iFixit tears apart the Galaxy S 4G, sets it on fire Posted: 24 Feb 2011 07:00 AM PST
That’s why the latest in iFixit‘s series of gadget-stripping teardowns is particularly wonderful. They’d heard that part of the new Samsung Galaxy S 4G was made of magnesium — and as any kid who had a more adventurous teacher in High School could teach you, cool stuff happens when you burn magnesium. Specifically, it burns white. Really, really bright white. As in destroy-your-eyes bright. For all the burninating (and other discoveries, like that the Galaxy S 4G’s face is constructed somewhat poorly but that the sliding micro-USB slot is built quite cleverly) you can find iFixit’s teardown right here.
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| Sprint’s First Windows Phone 7 Device, The HTC Arrive, Launches March 20th For $200 Posted: 24 Feb 2011 06:00 AM PST
And it all comes to a head. After a few days of teasing out of Sprint’s Twitter account with promises of a big unveil today, they’ve confirmed what we all suspected: they’re finally getting a Windows Phone 7 handset, and it’s the HTC 7 Pro (albeit dubbed the “HTC Arrive” in this case). Look for it to hit the shelves on March 20th for $200 bucks after a mail-in rebate (yeck!) and a 2-year contract. Want to know what’s inside? Check out the specs after the jump.
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