This week at WiMo News was full of underdogs overcoming objections, making better price points, [keyboards and cameras.  While Google I/O disappointed bargain-lover Nexus fans.

No More on the Q-T for BlackBerry Q10 in USA

The release dates for the BlackBerry Q10 will be coming in June and the Summer.

One Mo' Round 4 the HTC One Around the World

HTC has ramped up production of the HTC One to meet demand.

Nokia Lumia 521 Best Prepaid Deal on Smartphone Any Where

When we compared the Nokia Lumia 521 vs iPhone 5 , the Lumina was the best deal worth waiting for.

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As the Samsung Galaxy S4 dukes it out with the iPhone 5/4/4S, Samsung is taking over the prepaid dominance space.  Smartphones are a majority of sales for postpaid and prepaid reported NPD Group.  Here are some facts that NPD sent us before CTIA this week.

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The HTC One, one of the best and most popular smartphones of the season was in short supply, which should end soon.

HTC will doubling the production of the HTC One this month to keep up with the huge demand. The delayed release of the HTC One was caused by the newly designed exclusive  Ultrapixel camera.  It also takes at least two minutes to make the aluminum body.

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Googlers have gotten their hands on a new incarnation of the Nexus 4 in white/ivory that a white knight for pure Google fans.

There's glitter in the background of the ivory-colored Nexus 4 cases seen at Google I/O.  Although Google has not announced it, the Nexus 4 will apparently come in Ivory, with the same internal specs of the black Nexus 4.

The snowy-white Nexus 4 will reportedly be released on June 10, according "to word on the street" or four weeks from today on the Google Play Store.

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All the special "S" software on the Samsung Galaxy S 4 takes up a lot of storage space which Samsung will attempt to free up more space. Sales figures, however show that few buyers cared about the storage problem.

All the Samsung apps and take up 7GB of  16GB of storage ont the 16GB model, leaving about 9GB for photos, videos and message. Previously, Samsung told those wanted more space to use more storage with a microSD card which the iPhone 5 and HTC One do not have.

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We learned that the Washington state Attorney General worked out a plan for T-Mobile customers who bought T-Mobile service and equipment between March 26 and April 25, 2013, can get a full refund.

We had some questions regarding the refund, there is not ETF fee and plans can be pro-rated over the month for The Attorney General deal and some other polices with T-Mobile.  T-Mobile raised the down payment price for iPhone 5, today, which is still the best deal for iPhone on any major carrier.

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iPhones and the Samsung Galaxy are the most profitable in the Galaxy reported Strategy Analytics.

Apple's iPhone was the most profitable at $7.1 billion or 57% of total profit shares of smartphones.

Samsung has the main share of profits ts $5.1 billion in operating profits which is 95% of all profits made on Android. Global Android profits were $5.3 billion. Android accounted for 43% of smartphone profits.

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The BlackBerry Q10 will coming form Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon this summer.

The QWERTY BlackBerry Q10 will be available in June from Verizon Wireless with preorders starting in the coming weeks.

T-Mobile will be offered the Q10 in June with business customers paying $119.99 with qualified plans while the T-Mobile price with two-years of $20 a month payment is $99.99.

Sprint only committed to selling the BlackBerry Q10 in the "late summer."

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After T-Mobile's reduced plans, AT&T's Aio and more prepaid smartphones than ever before Verizon Wireless has increased the amount of data in its prepaid plans.

Verizon's current prepaid customers who pay $60 a month now will get 2GB of data, an increase from 500MB a month.

$70 a month prepaid plans will have unlimited voice, text and 4GB of data an increase from 2GB.

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While consumers may have abandoned their  Nexus One or Nexus S smartphones there were three Nexus that took a trip into space and sent back earth images.

Photos were combined in NASA's PhoneSat, from small boxed shaped satellites that were put into orbit on April 21. The devices used Nexus smartphones for brains.  Meanwhile earthlings have heard nothing about the new cousins of the Nexus One and S , the Nexus 4 LTE or Nexus 5.

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It's time to vent our pent-up frustration and satisfaction of Google I/O.

Let's see what wasn't seen at Google I/0:

No new Android 4.3 or 5 Key Lime Pie.
No Nexus 4 new model.
No Nexus 11 tablet.
No enhanced Nexus 7, 8 or 9.

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The Samsung Galaxy S 4 (GS 4) is showing signs of Apple iPhone-like success.

An unamed Samsung executive told Chosunlibo that Samsung has shipped 4 million GS 4between its launch and the end of the April. I

Then Samsung shipped another 2 million, making for a total of 6 million shipped by May 10.  Samsung believes that they will sell 10 Samsung Galaxy S 4 smartphones by the end of May.

In the past, it took Samsung two months to sell 10 million Samsung Galaxy S III in 2012 and 150 days to sell the same amount of Samsung Galaxy S II models.

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