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• HTC Sensation 4G headed to Canada's Virgin Mobile too
• HP Pre 3 rumored to hit Verizon, AT&T in July, Skype integration in tow
• RIM faces more trouble as investors start to flee
• Motorola puts brakes on DROID 2 Global Gingerbread update
• Apple expands suit against Samsung, adds more phones to the mix
• HTC Sensation 4G headed to Canada on Bell
• Cox might sell remnants of 3G network
• Google, MIT develop new way to transfer data between PC, smartphone
• Cellular South nabs HTC 7 Pro Windows Phone 7 smartphone too
• Angry Birds sees 1 million downloads per day; productivity at all time low
• Nokia's Windows Phone models will hit 6 European markets first
• Motorola introduces the Milestone 3 to China
• More woes for LightSquared: federal board confirms GPS problems
• Facebook's iPad app said to be nearly ready
• Nokia working on universal search app for Symbian devices
• LG reminds us the Optimus 3D is due in the next few weeks

HTC Sensation 4G headed to Canada's Virgin Mobile too Posted: 17 Jun 2011 12:37 PM PDT Not to be left out of the Sensation 4G party, Virgin Mobile in Canada has announced that it too will be carrying HTC's dual-core superphone. Details, like launch date and price, are scant right now, but Virgin promises to let us know more soon. Looks like Canadians will have a number of options when it comes to high-end smartphones in the near future. Read the full story here.

HP Pre 3 rumored to hit Verizon, AT&T in July, Skype integration in tow Posted: 17 Jun 2011 11:58 AM PDT PreCentral has acquired some new information regarding the HP Pre 3 from a tipster. The anonymous tip claims that the webOS smartphone will arrive on Verizon Wireless and possibly AT&T around July 21. Read the full story here.

RIM faces more trouble as investors start to flee Posted: 17 Jun 2011 11:30 AM PDT RIM's financial report for the first quarter of 2012 certainly wasn't good, and it looks like it is starting to the see the effects of it on the stock market already. One of RIM's largest investors has announced that it will be dumping all of its shares in the company. Read the full story here.

Motorola puts brakes on DROID 2 Global Gingerbread update Posted: 17 Jun 2011 11:02 AM PDT Despite Verizon Wireless' announcement that the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update for the Motorola DROID 2 Global is rolling out to users now, Motorola has said that the update is not ready and is not available. Speaking on its support forums, a Motorola representative said that the update is not rolling out anytime soon and that there is no date given as to when it will be available for users. Sad news for owners of the DROID 2 Global who had gotten their hopes up, though this isn't the first time an update has seen rocky starts. Read the full story here.

Apple expands suit against Samsung, adds more phones to the mix Posted: 17 Jun 2011 10:26 AM PDT Apple has updated its complaint of design and trade dress infringement that it filed against Samsung and has added a bunch of new phones to the list of devices it claims are involved. Read the full story here.

HTC Sensation 4G headed to Canada on Bell Posted: 17 Jun 2011 09:33 AM PDT While Rogers' users in Canada might be excited for the Samsung Infuse 4G, a new information page on rival Bell's website confirms that the HTC Sensation 4G will be headed to the Great White North too. The Sensation 4G was just released this week for T-Mobile in the U.S., and has been available in Europe for a few weeks now. No word on an exact release date for Bell, but the company is running a contest to win 1 of 10 Sensation 4Gs that will be drawn on July 12. Interested customers can head over to Bell's site to enter the drawing. Read the full story here.

Cox might sell remnants of 3G network Posted: 17 Jun 2011 08:29 AM PDT Cox Communications is considering the sale of its 3G cellular network, according to company president Pat Esser. This announcement follows the news that Cox would stop building its own network and instead become an MVNO using Sprint's network. Read the full story here.

Google, MIT develop new way to transfer data between PC, smartphone Posted: 17 Jun 2011 07:59 AM PDT Researchers at MIT and Google have developed a new way to transfer data between a PC and a smartphone by utilizing the camera on the phone. Read the full story here.

Cellular South nabs HTC 7 Pro Windows Phone 7 smartphone too Posted: 17 Jun 2011 07:23 AM PDT Cellular South has announced that it, too, will be carrying the HTC 7 Pro Windows Phone 7 smartphone. The 7 Pro is the first Windows Phone 7 device for Cellular South, and features a 3.6-inch tilting touchscreen with a slide-out keyboard and a 5 megapixel camera. It is powered by a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. The 7 Pro is available from Cellular South today for $199.99 after rebate with a new two-year agreement. The 7 Pro originally debuted on Sprint earlier this year as the Arrive, and recently became available on U.S. Cellular as well. Read the full story here.

Angry Birds sees 1 million downloads per day; productivity at all time low Posted: 17 Jun 2011 06:48 AM PDT Peter Vesterbecka, CEO of Rovio, has let it be known that the immensely popular Angry Birds game is now downloaded at a rate of 1 million times per day. The firm recently announced that the game has been downloaded a total of 250 million times across the many platforms that it is available on. Rovio recently released an update to both the Angry Birds and Angry Birds Rio versions of the game. Read the full story here.

Nokia's Windows Phone models will hit 6 European markets first Posted: 17 Jun 2011 06:28 AM PDT Nokia has revealed that six countries in Europe will be the first markets to receive Windows Phone powered Nokia handsets when they arrive. France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and the UK will be among the lucky first to get their hands on a love child from Nokia and Microsoft's budding relationship. Nokia also confirmed once again that the first Nokia device with Windows Phone will ship before the end of 2011. Notably missing from the list of launch countries? Nokia's homeland of Finland. Read the full story here.

Motorola introduces the Milestone 3 to China Posted: 17 Jun 2011 06:20 AM PDT Motorola has announced the newest member of Milestone line of Android smartphones: the XT883, aka the Milestone 3. The Milestone is the international version of the popular DROID line of phones for Verizon Wireless in the U.S. Read the full story here.

More woes for LightSquared: federal board confirms GPS problems Posted: 17 Jun 2011 06:02 AM PDT More rough news for LightSquared today, as a federal engineering advisory group confirmed the GPS issues with the nascent network and even advised the FCC to reverse its decision to allow LightSquared to use its spectrum for a terrestrial network. Read the full story here.

Facebook's iPad app said to be nearly ready Posted: 17 Jun 2011 05:35 AM PDT According to the New York Times, Facebook is almost ready to release its iPad app, one that has been almost a year in the making. Read the full story here.

Nokia working on universal search app for Symbian devices Posted: 17 Jun 2011 05:35 AM PDT An unlisted video found on YouTube has revealed a new universal search application for Symbian smartphones that Nokia is apparently working on. Right now, the app is in a private beta test, but with the video, we can get a good idea of how it works. Read the full story here.

LG reminds us the Optimus 3D is due in the next few weeks Posted: 17 Jun 2011 05:13 AM PDT LG has issued a press release to remind everyone about the Optimus 3D smartphone that it plans on eventually releasing. The release did not give us any information on an exact street date, but it did say that the phone will be launching worldwide in the next few weeks, with European customers getting the first shot at it. Read the full story here.

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