We hope you all picked up some great Cyber Monday bargains! However, consumers who planned on getting their hands on a shiny new off-contract 16GB Moto X for $349, a 32GB for $399. or the Moto X Developer Edition for $399 were sadly out of luck. Shortly after the products went on sale on the official Moto Maker website, Motorola’s servers crashed and many people were unable to order the handsets.
Today, Google has published the latest distribution figures of the Android operating system which ran over a 7-day period. The numbers reveal a consistent growth in the amount of Android users running Jelly Bean, whilst older versions of the OS continue on their path towards extinction. As anticipated, this months results also show a small amount of users running the latest software version, Android 4.4 KitKat.
Sony is the latest company to join in on the Cyber Monday festivities and for today only is offering its most recent flagship slate, the Xperia Tablet Z (LTE), with a $50 reduction off the usual $629.99 retail price.
Just for today, Verizon is offering the Droid Razr HD completely free of charge on any of its 2-year contracts — that’s an impressive saving of $99.99. This offer is part of Big Red’s Cyber Monday promotions scheme, and for a limited time only it is also be offering any new line activations free of charge. So if that’s not an incentive to purchase a new phone, I don’t know what is.
AT&T has officially announced that its offering HTC’s flagship smartphone of 2013, the One, completely free of charge on any of its 2-year contracts in celebration of Cyber Monday. This promotion will be available for the rest of today and will expire at 23:59 PDT later tonight.
