Vodafone (which might soon launch two Microsoft Project Pink phones) is getting ready to introduce its first own-branded Android handset – the Vodafone 845. The Vodafone 845 will be quite cheap: only €150. But that’s because it’s...

The Samsung Galaxy Spica i5700 is now available in Canada thanks to Rogers, which sells the Android smartphone for $79.99 with a 3-yr contract agreement. If you want to buy the handset free of contract, you’ll have to pay $449.99. At the moment, Ro...

Available since November last year, the Nokia E72 will soon have a new version, namely the Nokia E72i. It’s not yet clear what the E72i brings, but it looks like it’s destined for China and it might feature WAPI (China’s own Wi-Fi technology)....

Approved by the FCC in August last year and first appeared in photos in November, the Casio Brigade C741 seems to be already available in various Verizon retail stores – although Verizon didn’t announce this yet. Some users over at the Howard for...

HTC HD2, one of the new smartphones that T-Mobile USA is launching this spring (alongside the Motorola Cliq XT and Nokia Nuron) is now featured on the carrier’s official website as “coming soon”. T-Mo doesn’t say just how soon is that, but, a...

When Palm officially unveiled the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus for Verizon, it also announced 3D games support for its WebOS platform. Now Palm UK offers three free 3D games from EA Mobile to anyone who owns or buys a Palm Pre with an O2 contract. The offe...

We still don’t know when Sprint is going to launch (or at least announce) the HTC Supersonic (which could be the carrier’s first 4G / WiMAX smartphone), but the handset has recently appeared on video Unfortunately, the video is short and blur...

While mobile technology has made leaps and bounds this decade for anyone who is unable to speak, it’s just the beginning. It turns out some new technology is being developed which will enable people to talk on the phone without having to talk,...

Here are two Nokia concept phones that are at least interesting: Nokia Stealth and Nokia 82 Dragonfly. The Nokia Stealth should be a mid-end phone. It has a design inspired by stealth aircraft and it reminds me a bit of the Vertu Boucheron 150 (that�...

Although many see Windows Mobile 6.5 as an almost dead platform, it looks like the OS is actually gaining market share in Latin America. While talking about the upcoming launch of Windows Phone 7 Series OS in the region, Doug Smith (Microsoft’s Lat...

While other big phone manufacturers (like Samsung) are using solar energy as an alternative to charge their phones’ batteries, Nokia intends to use piezoelectricity and kinetic energy. The Finnish giant has filed a patent for a “Piezoelectric Kin...

LG Cookie Fresh GS290, the new touchscreen phone that we first saw last week, has just been officially announced. Like the LG Cookie Plus GS500, the LG Cookie Fresh GS290 builds on the success of the first Cookie phone (sold in 12 million units until...

We know AT&T is planning to bring Palm’s WebOS into its fold sometime in the first half of 2010 in the form of two devices, as announced earlier this year. What we don’t know is which devices will grace the second-largest wireless car...

About a year ago, T-Mobile USA introduced Yahoo OneSearch as the default mobile search engine for its phones. But the exclusive deal with Yahoo has ended, and T-Mo didn’t want to extend it. Instead, the fourth largest US carrier has chosen Google a...

Although Microsoft hasn’t officially announced them, the Project Pink phones are almost certainly real and coming to Verizon in the near future. Codenamed Pure and Turtle, the handsets have appeared in two new leaked images over at Engadget. Manufa...

We know that ZTE has quite a few Android smartphones, but we’ve only seen one until now (the Palm Pre-like ZTE Smooth). Well, three more have recently appeared, and although they were showcased by ZTE during MWC 2010, not many blogs have mentioned...

If you’re hoping to buy an Apple iPad in the US this month, you’ll be disappointed to find out that the Cupertino company’s first tablet will only be available starting April 3 – so those rumors about production problems may be true. Of c...

Olive Telecommunication, the Indian company that announced Zipbooks last year, has introduced the Olive FrvrOn V-G2300, presented as “India’s first dual powered mobile phone compatible with any AAA battery.” The FrvrOn is just a low-end han...

Microsoft keeps on saying that Windows Phone 7 Series is really different from the past versions of its mobile OSes – and, well, it is. In fact, it’s so different that applications compatible with Windows Mobile 6.5 (or older) will not run on Win...

Have you heard of Innocomm? Chances are it’s a name that doesn’t sound terribly familiar. That’s because it’s a fresh new smartphone manufacturer that has lofty inspirations to come out with several low-cost yet high-quality A...

Being a huge fan of gadgets and electronics in general, it’s hard to admit that in many ways the industry is very unfriendly to the environment. Countless waste from old and used electronics are adding to our landfills each and every day. That&...

Nobody likes mail-in rebates. They are the bane of the consumer’s existence. While we all get frustrated that they still exist, we know that these rebates are incredibly profitable for the companies that require them because consumers don’...

Initially introduced by Nokia as Mail on Ovi, Ovi Mail has now reached version 2.0, coming with several new features, as well as with support for a new language: Arabic (the Ovi Mail UI had to be changed for this, since Arabic is a right-to-left lang...

Announced by Nokia and Intel at MWC 2010, MeeGo, the new versatile platform that combines Moblin and Maemo, will be used by Orange in some of its future devices based on the Intel Atom processor. Orange says that these MeeGo devices (possibly includi...

Let’s leave those Microsoft Project Pink phones aside and concentrate our attention a bit on another unannounced smartphone that’s coming soon to Verizon: the HTC Incredible. Unlike Microsoft’s handsets, which run an unidentified OS that resemb...

Remember Microsoft’s Project Pink phone, rumored to be headed to Verizon? It looks like there are actually two handsets that Microsoft wants to launch via the largest North American carrier – one codenamed Turtle and another one codenamed Pure (a...

If Sony Ericsson won’t make a PSP phone, Sony might. The Japanese company hasn’t launched a cell phone under its own brand since 2001, when the joint venture with Ericsson was established. A Wall Street Journal report has it that Sony wants to la...

Already available for Windows Mobile, iPhone, Symbian and Blackberry, Microsoft Tag Reader has now been released as an Android app. This is Microsoft’s first application made for Google’s Android platform, and, like the versions for other platfor...

Samsung has launched the Clutch SPH-W9500 in South Korea, a new phone that resembles the Samsung Diva S7070 (recently released in the UK). While the Diva S7070 is an entry-level touchscreen handset, the Clutch W9500 is a mid-end one. The phone featur...

Opera has decided to launch a native version of Opera Mini 5 beta for Windows Mobile – more exactly, for Windows Mobile 5 and Windows Mobile 6 (WM 6.5 and WM 6.5.3 are probably included). Opera Mini 5 beta for Windows Mobile doesn’t require Java...

Google has launched a new application for Android (version 2.0 or newer) devices, called Gesture Search. Google Gesture Search allows Android users to easily find info stored on their smartphones (contacts, installed apps, music tracks, bookmarks), b...

Samsung Diva S7070, one of Sammy’s new touchscreen phones targeted at female customers, has just been launched in the UK. The Diva S7070 can be bought from Carphone Warehouse, and it looks like you can get it on contract via O2, Orange or T-Mobile...

Apple (which has recently sued HTC for alleged patent infringements) will launch a new iPhone this year, possibly in June or July. At the moment, no one knows exactly what the 4th generation iPhone looks like or what new features it will bring. Of co...

Unveiled last week during the Engadget Show, LG’s first smartphone to run Windows Phone 7 Series (and possibly the world’s first WP7 device) doesn’t have an official name yet. However, a blog in the UK claims that the smartphone will be named L...

Three of Motorola’s Android smartphones that come with MotoBlur, the Quench, Backflip and Dext, have been officially announced for Canada, where they’ll be available starting the first half of this year. Presented as a “revolutionary social...

After officially unveiling the Nokia 5230 Nuron for T-Mobile USA, Nokia has made a pretty important announcement: it has partnered with Skype to offer Skype for Symbian through the company’s Ovi Store, making it available to more than 200 million s...

T-Mobile USA’s Nokia 5230 Nuron has just been officially announced as the first US carrier-supported Nokia handset to come with free turn-by-turn navigation (Ovi Maps 3.0). The smartphone even has maps of the US, Canada and Mexico preloaded, and it...

Qik, which recently signed a deal with Vodafone UK, announced the availability of Qik Premium for Nokia’s handsets. As the name implies, Qik Premium is not free – it’s currently available for a promotional price of $4.99 / year (the promotion e...

The rumored BlackBerry slider smartphone is apparently real, and it looks like it has just appeared in two leaked photos – which, of course, could be fake, although they seem real enough. As expected, the device has a touchscreen display, an optica...

When LG officially announced the LG Cookie Plus GS500, it said that other new Cookie phones would be launched during 2010. One of these phones is the LG Cookie Fresh GS290, spotted at CeBIT 2010 today by the folks over at PortableGear.nl (via PhoneAr...

With Sprint getting ready to launch 4G / WiMax in many new US markets this year, some phone manufacturers are surely thinking about making WiMax hardware for the carrier. Apart from HTC (which should launch the Supersonic Android phone), Palm may als...

Not long after countersuing Nokia, Apple has now announced that it’s also suing HTC for the same reason – patent infringement. The Cupertino-based company implies that HTC infringes no less than 20 patents “related to the iPhone’s user interf...

We already know that the HTC HD2, Motorola Cliq XT and Nokia Nuron are all coming soon to T-Mobile USA, but the carrier didn’t announce their prices. Well, TmoNews says the handsets could be prices as following: the HTC HD2 will be $199.99 with a c...

Two unannounced Gigabyte smartphone shave recently appeared in Ukraine, one running Android 1.6 and another one running Windows Mobil 6.5. The Android device is called Gigabyte GSmart G1305 Codfish, and it looks like it has more features than the fir...

Sony Ericsson’s latest Android handsets, the Xperia X10 Mini and Xperia X10 Mini Pro, might be available in the UK as soon as April (when Vodafone UK should launch the Xperia X10). Expansys has both new devices on pre-order, saying that they’ll b...

Nokia has finally announced its first phone from the Cseries family – the Nokia C5 candybar (first seen at the beginning of February). Presented as a “smartphone optimized for social networking and sharing,” Nokia C5 lets you see Facebook statu...

We already know that Nokia is getting ready to launch dual SIM phones later this year. Well, some (if not all) of Nokia’s dual SIM handsets will be based on the S40 platform and not on Symbian. According to a leaked document posted at Cellularmania...

Today, Vodafone UK has started offering the Nokia X6 16GB, for free with a 2-yr contract of at least £30 per month (600 minutes, 500MB of mobile internet and unlimited texts are included). Vodafone’s Nokia X6 16GB is preloaded with the Vodafone 36...

Announced by Apple in January, the iPad should be available for purchase starting this month (well, just the Wi-Fi version, because the release of the Wi-Fi + 3G version is scheduled for April). However, Apple may launch only a limited number of iPad...

MetroPCS has announced the availability of Motorola VE440 Mister Cartoon edition – obviously a remake of the VE440 introduced back in September 2009. The new Motorola VE440 comes with two interchangeable back covers designed by Mister Cartoon, who...