As rumored, Samsung just broke the news: The Google phone is finally coming to AT&T. The Nexus S will be sold through Best Buy and Best buy Mobile (right next to the Sprint and T-Mobile version) for $99 with a two year plan. Interestingly, no mention of of ‘4G’, real or fake.
Now Verizon is the only major carrier not to carry the Nexus S.
If you are a mid/high-end Android lover in the US, but want unlimited data and don’t want to pay high monthly fees, it is hard to beat the Motorola Triumph. It hits a lot of sweetspots:
Front (5MP) and rear(.3MP) cameras which take 720P video, 4.1 inch 480×800 display and big 1400mA battery
Relatively untouched Android 2.2 (boo! bring on 2.3.4!)
Plans start at $35/month: 300 talk minutes, unlimited internet and SMS (gets throttled to 256k at 3.5GB in October)
Google I/O attendees can now cllaim their Samsung Series 5 Chromebooks. Interestingly, Google and Samsung are giving out the 3G models which retail for $500. Also interesting, they come via Amazon – you get a promo code to redeem at the end. Start here once you get your code.
Yes, ours is on the way, you have a week to claim them!
Best Buy Music Cloud streams songs to Android, iOS and BlackBerry smartphones and supports offline mode
Come on, you knew this day would come now that Amazon, Google and Apple have legitimized music lockers in the cloud. Yes, Best Buy is jumping on the bandwagon with a cloud service of their own, dubbed Music Cloud and powered by Catch Media Inc’s Play Anywhere platform. Should you care? It depends, as Music Cloud seems to be a mixed bag of best ideas taken from others, clearly with some limitations stemming from their lack of Apple’s stranglehold of the music industry.
You can upload songs to Music Cloud, just like with Google’s Music Beta and Amazon’s Cloud Player. More importantly, the service lets you stream songs from the cloud to any device, unlike Apple’s service that only lets you download individual files (although that’s likely to change in the near future). Best Buy’s offering, however, excludes the scan-and-match feature that Apple’s iCloud will offer for $25 a year come this Fall. Music Cloud has a couple of other nice perks (and more annoying limitations)…
