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Samsung to pay 1.3 billion US dollars for Qualcomm patents
While some companies make their way to the top using others' achievements, there are still ones that are willing to pay for patent licenses without mumbling too much. Like Samsung who have just signed an agreement with Qualcomm, according to which...
LG GW620 goes on sale as LG Eve, LG prepping an Android Snapdragon as well
It seems that the LG GW620 just got outed (exclusively in Canada for the time being) as the LG Eve. We guess Eve will just be a regional naming obviously inspired by the fact that the GW620 is the first Android-powered phone by LG. The American...
Nokia giving away 100 000 pedestrian navigation licences
What a lovely end of the business week: we’ve just found out that Nokia are giving away 100 000 pedestrian navigation licences. And what is even better, they are all free and valid for use in the whole world. It almost sounds too good to be true but...
Nokia X6 Comes With Music, goes on preorder
The second wave of Nokia touch phones and the first wave of the Xseries is coming to town - the Nokia X6 is already available for preorder with an expected date of release 12th of November, complete with Comes With Music. The Comes With Music...
A new HOOK cellphone design breaks from the bar form factor
A new intriguing mobile form factor concept comes from the Brazilian designer Fabio Dabori. The so-called HOOK promises to innovate the keypad locking mechanism and push the future mobile designs to a new direction of smaller, more compact...
Samsung posts Q3 report, exceeds 20 percent market share
Samsung continued its outstanding performance in Q3 of the year, achieving 35.86 trillion Korean won (about 31 billion US dollars) revenue. The consolidated operating profit is 4.23 trillion Korean won (3.6 billion dollars) indicating that the...
Spy shots of touch Sony Ericsson Kurara smartphone pop up
Sony Ericsson obviously feel pretty good about working with Symbian S60 touch-operated UI as they are about to launch a second handset running it after the Satio. Nicknamed Kurara, the subject of these shots is a full-touch handset that packs some...
HTC HD2 now shipping in Europe and Asia for 550 euro
HTC HD2 has already started making its way out the HTC doors, so you should be seeing it on your local shop window some time really soon. That is if you live in in Europe and Asia. The USA will get the HD2 through a "major US carrier" sometime in...
Nokia 1616, 1800, 2220 slide and 2690 storm the low-end market
Today Nokia reinforced the low-end part of their portfolio with four new handsets. Nokia 1616, Nokia 1800, Nokia 2220 slide and Nokia 2690 are all entry-level handsets with basic functionality and a really low price tag. Nokia 2690 The...
Nokia's cheapest handset yet - the Nokia 1280 costs only 20 euro
Nokia has a firm footing in the low-end and regularly release new entry-level phones, driving the price lower with each release. The Nokia 1280 is designed with remote rural areas of developing countries in mind and its specs reflect that. Nokia...
Opera Mobile 10 beta for S60 available for download now
Opera portfolio is definitely a one-stop-shop for finding a proper mobile web browser whether you're on a smartphone or a feature phone. The Opera Mobile browser has reached the beta stage of version 10 and is now available to Symbian S60 devices -...
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 now official, live shots inside
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 finally saw its official announcement today. The Android-running handset is probably the worst kept secret of the century with numerous leaks and spy-shots revealing its specs long before the curtain was lifted. ...
Orange UK launch iPhone 3G/3GS on 10 Nov, same pricing as O2
Orange officially announced that the launch of the iPhone 3G and 3GS will be on 10 November. Their future iPhone plans are absolutely identical to those of O2 ones and you can have the 3GS free for 44 GBP on a 24-month contract. Much like...
GSM-fueled Motorola MILESTONE a.k.a. DROID launches in Europe
That didn't take long - the GSM version of the Motorola DROID is official and is headed for Europe. It's going to be called MILESTONE and Germany and Italy will be the first to get it, but the bad news is that it won't have the same perks as the US...
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 takes over the catwalk again
Another day, another Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 leak. This time we've got another video of the sweet-looking UI plus another host of official photos for you. The announcement of the mouth-watering Android handset should come any moment now so stay...
N-Gage is dead, long live the Ovi Store - full of Symbian games
Nokia plans to shut down the N-Gage platform. It's all going down in September 2010 but the publishing of new games has stopped as we speak. The gaming on Nokia phones will continue evolving under the Ovi Store umbrella. The website of N-Gage...
Sony Ericsson tease the crowds with an XPERIA X10 video
Heating up the expectations for the XPERIA X10 announcement next Tuesday (3 November), Sony Ericsson have just published a teaser video of their upcoming Android uber smartphone. We recently reported on the new Sony Ericsson landing promo page...
Motorola posts Q3 earnings, things looking pretty grim
It now came turn for Motorola to announce their financial results for Q3 of the year. While the company as a whole looks healthy enough, given the tough market conditions, the mobile division is still lagging behind, recording a loss of 183 million...
Windows XP powered ITG xpPhone has touchable custom UI
We've shown you the ITG xpPhone before but now there are screenshots of the user interface so we thought we should tell you all about it. The ITG xpPhone is kinda like the Nokia N900 - a tablet, but also a phone. Unlike the N900 however, this one is...
HTC Hero getting Android 2.0 Eclair update, keeps Sense UI
HTC are taking care of their existing Android devices - first it was Sense UI for the HTC Magic, now we hear that the HTC Hero is getting an Android 2.0 update. There's no specific timeframe for this update but at least it will be global, unlike the...
Huawei releases series of videos showing off their new Ascend P6 flagship
The Apple iPad finally gets to taste iOS 7, lots of screenshots inside
Adobe outs latest major update to Creative Cloud
Samsung’s June 20 Galaxy & Ativ event will be livestreamed on YouTube
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