Amazon UK has started selling the HTC Desire Z for £499 ($715) or you can purchase this handset for just £430 ($672) at Play.com. Amazon will release this highly anticipated handset on October 18th, 2010, while Play.com will launch the Desire Z on October 11th, 2010. For your info, the HTC Desire Z is the European/Asian version of T-Mobile G2. The phone comes with a 3.7-inch WVGA screen, a full QWERTY keyboard slider, HSPA, GPS, WiFi, and a 800MHz processor. What’s more, the HTC Desire Z comes with a new and improved UI Sense HTC interface. [Slashphone]
The all new Samsung Epic 4G (Sprint) is now available for pre-order via Amazon for just $199.99 with a 2-year Sprint service agreement and will begin shipping from August 31st. To remind you, this Android smartphone offers a 4-inch 480 x 800 Super AMOLED touchscreen display, a 5-megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash, a 1GB ROM, a 512MB RAM, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, WiMAX network support, 720p HD video recording and runs on Android 2.1 OS. [Amazon]
Here is good news for those who want to buy the Samsung Captivate this week. Amazon has started selling this handset for only 1 Cent on a two-year contract. As a reminder, the Samsung Captivate features a 1GHz Hummingbird CPU, a 4-inch Super AMOLED display with Gorilla Glass, a 5MP digital camera, a 720p HD video recording, GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and a microSD card slot. The Samsung Captivate is also certified with DivX HD. [Amazon]
The unlocked Samsung Wave S8500 smartphone is now available for just $399.95 at Amazon. This bada-powered handset comes jam packed with a Super AMOLED 3.3-inch display that makes the screen truly come alive, a Social Hub to bring you closer to your contacts and connections, and TouchWiz 3.0 user interface for an intuitive and hugely customizable user interface. [Amazon]
The international version of Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 is now available at Amazon for $955.95 each. This Android 1.6-powered cell phone is powered by a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU with a 4-inch WVGA touchscreen display, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, an 8MP AutoFocus camera and a 1GB of internal memory. The phone supports GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900. Each purchase comes equipped with an 8GB of SanDisk microSD card. [Amazon]
Amazon has released “Kindle for BlackBerry” application for free. This app allows you to access and purchase more than 420,000 books for approx. $9.99 each. This application also allows users to read the beginning of books for free before they buy, access their library of previously purchased Kindle books stored on Amazon’s servers, automatically synchronize the last page read between their Kindle-compatible devices, and read books in full color, including children’s books, cookbooks, travel books, textbooks and graphic novels. You can download it now at www.amazon.com/kindlebb. [PhoneFav]
