Isaiah's Tech

Virgin Mobile UK has just launched a pretty amazing smartphone. The Samsung Galaxy S is now available on said carrier for free on a 2-year contract where you'll have to pay £30 monthly. This plan will get you 800 minutes of talk time, unlimited texting, and a 1GB data plan. There are cheaper plans available but you'll have to pay £200 for the phone if you want to do that. Check it out on Virgin Mobile here.

[Phandroid]

So, a new Nokia handset has just been spotted in the wild. It's being called the N9 right now by a bunch of different sites but the device full says that it's the C0 if you look in the top left of the display. This is looking to be a prototype or something right now and it could be joining the C-Series of devices from Nokia. The device itself is clearly running the Symbian OS along with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, an 8MP camera with a dual-LED flash, a front-facing camera with an LED flash, 850/1900MHz 3G bands for North America, and an nHD (360 x 640 resolution) touchscreen display. Apparently, this handset will actually be launching with the MeeGo OS so it could actually be an N-Series device. Let's just wait and see what happens...

[Fone Arena, Boy Genius, Engadget]

Okay, so eMachines has just announced their weirdly-named nettop, the Mini-e ER1402 SFF. This nettop has a unique form factor and is "about the size and weight of a small book" - 7.1-inches in diameter and it weighs 9 pounds. The nettop itself could be used as an HTPC is a Mac Mini is out of your budget. This nettop right here packs an AMD Athlon II Neo CPU, Nvidia GeForce 9200 graphics, 2GB of RAM, a 160GB HDD, and four USB ports. This nettop should be hitting the stores soon for $299.99

[Slash Gear]

Back in May we heard about the HTC Vision. Everyone believed that the handset would be the Desire with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Well, there's a new rumour going around that it may actually be even better than that. Apparently, the Vision will pack a 4.3-inch touchscreen display, an 8MP camera, a dual-core 800MHz CPU, Android 3.0, and more... Whatever that may be. Apparently, the handset will be hitting T-Mobile by the end of the year. We already know that dual-core chips are on the way but could a phone be packing one in less than 6 months? We'll have to wait and see. So many questions...

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So far Apple seems to have sold a lot of iPhone 4's but a fair number of them seem to have some issues. If you're on Verizon there's no need to worry because you can now pre-order your Motorola DROID X at a Best Buy near you. Best Buy will be offering the smartphone for $199.99 on a 2-year contract without that dumb mail-in rebate. Head over to a store now!

[Engadget]

Thanks to the FCC, we now have confirmation that AT&T will be getting the Sony Ericsson Vivaz in the US. The filing is here if you're interested but that's really all we need know. Specs are unchanged so you'll find a 3.2-inch [resistive] touchscreen display with a 360 x 640 resolution, a microSD card slot (8GB card in the box), WiFi / Bluetooth, an 8MP AF camera with an LED flash and 720p HD video recording capabilities, a 720MHz CPU, PowerVR SGX graphics, a 3.5mm headphone jack, some social integration, and Symbian S60 5th Edition. This handset should be hitting the carrier soon, but the price is still unknown.

[Unwired View, Electronista]