Mobile Phone News

So who’s the first North American carrier to pick up Sony Ericsson’s high-end X10? AT&T? T-Mobile? Nope — it’s Canada’s Rogers, which is once again showing its superior Android prowess by getting first dibs on a phone that plenty of folks have been anticipating since its announcement late last year. Looks like April 15 has been locked in as the carrier’s date with destiny, but there’s more to the story than that: they’ll be tossing in a gratis Sony Ericsson MW600 Bluetooth headset with integrated FM radio if you’re an existing customer who’s eligible for a hardware upgrade. It’s actually a pretty deluxe deal — the MW600 retails for almost $100 — so if you were on the fence about whether to pull the trigger on the upgrade, this might be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.

it seems like Canada’s Rogers will be among the first carriers in the world to offer LG’s first Android device, the GW620 Eve — and for North Americans, this is particularly notable since it means there’s a version of the device at retail that’ll theoretically work on Bell, Telus, and AT&T in addition to Rogers proper. We have no indication that AT&T’s about to actually pull the trigger on this thing (or on any Android device for that matter), though, so if you’re into the 5 megapixel AF cam, full QWERTY slide, and 7.2Mbps HSDPA capability, we’d recommend putting your unlockin’ pants on. For Rogers customers, we’re not seeing a release date just yet, but it seems like you’ll be paying a downright reasonable CAD $49.99 (about $47) on a three-year deal when it launches.

Filed under: Apple

Psst… you hear that there’s a new iPhone coming out next month? Yeah, us too. in this place are a few iPhone stories we’ve been tracking from the past handful of days: