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Nokia kicks out N96 Bruce Lee edition in Hong Kong

Nokia kicks out N96 Bruce Lee edition in Hong Kong

20 Nov, 2008 | comments (117)

Nokia has officially released in Hong Kong an action-ready Nokia N96 Bruce Lee edition, which will knock you off with exclusive accessories and back panel imprint of the legendary martial arts master Bruce Lee. While the specifications of the...


LG KF900 Prada launches with a matching Bluetooth wrist watch

LG KF900 Prada launches with a matching Bluetooth wrist watch

19 Nov, 2008 | comments (95)

LG today launch the LG KF900 Prada or more commonly known as Prada II. They have also taken the opportunity to announce a Bluetooth wrist watch, which matches the fashionable handset and re-affirms its high-tech status. There isn't much new stuff...

Tags: LG, Touch UI


Eye-hurting Motorola MING A1600 Gold Edition emerges

Eye-hurting Motorola MING A1600 Gold Edition emerges

19 Nov, 2008 | comments (45)

A gold edition of the Motorola A1600 touchscreen phone has just appeared on the Chinese website of the company. Designed in the spirit of the Motorola V8 Luxury edition the A1600 trades the snake for crocodile skin but this doesn't make it much less...


Motorola VE66 announced, 5 MP camera and Wi-Fi confirmed

Motorola VE66 announced, 5 MP camera and Wi-Fi confirmed

18 Nov, 2008 | comments (91)

Today Motorola announced their second 5MP phone - the slider VE66. The other highlight feature is the Wi-Fi connectivity. Most of the specifications that were rumored when images of the phone leaked about 1 month ago were confirmed by the press...

Tags: Motorola


Vodafone UK announce their spicey holiday mobile lineup

Vodafone UK announce their spicey holiday mobile lineup

18 Nov, 2008 | comments (22)

Vodafone presented this year's holiday mobile phones that they will be offering on contract and Pay-as-you-talk basis. The contract handsets include some really nice recent phones, while the PAYT devices are more affordable but still...


LG Incite for AT&T, yours for 200 US dollars on contract

LG Incite for AT&T, yours for 200 US dollars on contract

18 Nov, 2008 | comments (24)

At the peep of day, the AT&T site revealed the latest LG phone dubbed LG Incite. Armed with WinMo 6.1 Pro, quad-band GSM support and tri-band HSDPA on-board it is a true global phone. The AT&T exclusive LG Incite has a front panel dominated by...


Asus announces P565, comes with the world's fastest handheld CPU

Asus announces P565, comes with the world's fastest handheld CPU

17 Nov, 2008 | comments (41)

Asus announced their latest business PDA phone - the P565. It sports the fastest CPU in the class - the 800 MHz Marvell TavorP and comes with the company's latest touch-driven interface - the Glide. In addition it brings in quite a number of...


3 UK introduces social networking oriented INQ1 handset

3 UK introduces social networking oriented INQ1 handset

14 Nov, 2008 | comments (22)

The first handset to feature seamless Facebook integration was officially announced by the UK carrier. Peculiarly called INQ1 it has a design much similar to Nokia N85 and a decent modest feature set. In addition to the seamless integration to...

Tags: Misc


Google voice search coming to the iPhone really soon

Google voice search coming to the iPhone really soon

14 Nov, 2008 | comments (56)

Google have taken searching to a next level and announced that they will be releasing an upgrade of their iPhone search application, which will feature voice recognition. So next time when you are out and about - don't just type in your search term,...


Nokia Wahoo spotted, GPS and half QWERTY on board

Nokia Wahoo spotted, GPS and half QWERTY on board

13 Nov, 2008 | comments (72)

After the promising leak of the Nokia smartphone roadmap, we have more hot news for you, this time with photos. Codenamed Wahoo, the new Nokia flip phone stands out with its half QWERTY keypad and built-in aGPS. The new Symbian smartphone looks...


WiMAX-enabled HTC MAX 4G comes exclusive to Yota Russia

WiMAX-enabled HTC MAX 4G comes exclusive to Yota Russia

13 Nov, 2008 | comments (31)

HTC announced HTC MAX 4G - a WiMAX-enabled high-end device that's exclusive for Yota WiMAX network in Russia. The handset is an HTC Touch HD replica with its 3G stripped and added WiMAX support. But there are several more new goodies on board. We...


Nokia E63 surfaces, brings little surprises

Nokia E63 surfaces, brings little surprises

12 Nov, 2008 | comments (89)

After several leaks the Nokia E63 finally got its official announcement today. Much like the rumor had it the handset is a slightly downgraded and more budget friendly version of the E71. Most of the business functionality is still there so the...


Blackberry Curve 8900 available through T-Mobile DE, seems nice

Blackberry Curve 8900 available through T-Mobile DE, seems nice

12 Nov, 2008 | comments (22)

The new Blackberry 8900 Curve packs both Wi-Fi and GPS, which is rather unusual for the manufacturer. The new Curve also has a 3 megapixel auto focus camera to make corporate users extra happy. But wait, as there is more. We reported the new...

Tags: BlackBerry


Samsung i7110 gets a pet name, price and launch date

Samsung i7110 gets a pet name, price and launch date

12 Nov, 2008 | comments (25)

According to an online source, Samsung has officially revealed the price and availability of their latest smartphone Samsung i7110. Samsung i7110 official photos The phone we've already previewed will be released in Germany first under...


Nokia 2008-2009 smartphone roadmap surfaces

Nokia 2008-2009 smartphone roadmap surfaces

11 Nov, 2008 | comments (176)

A dozen of Nokia smartphones leaked online with most of their major specifications, codenames and most importantly, their planned product announcement. Do not just get too excited though as there are no photos of the rumored devices so far. Still,...


Xda Zest with GPS and Wi-Fi made exclusively for O2

Xda Zest with GPS and Wi-Fi made exclusively for O2

10 Nov, 2008 | comments (21)

O2 today exclusively unveiled the XDA Zest, adding another Xda phone to its expanding range of O2 branded handsets. The new PDA is the first O2 XDA to be made available on Pay&Go, but it will be available on Pay Monthly plans as...


LG KC560 surfaces - did someone say tacky or what?

LG KC560 surfaces - did someone say tacky or what?

10 Nov, 2008 | comments (43)

The LG KC560 handset leaked today with a supposed release date just in time for the holidays. Having multimedia as its key element the LG KC560 does have some… okay let's call them interesting design solutions. For one, the phone has a...

Tags: LG, Rumors


Windows Mobile 6.5 confirmed, WinMo 7 still quite far away

Windows Mobile 6.5 confirmed, WinMo 7 still quite far away

10 Nov, 2008 | comments (33)

Following the rumors that have been going around, the CEO of Microsoft Corporation Steve Ballmer "mentioned" that the Windows Mobile 6.5 OS for mobile phones will hit the market in 2009, without revealing any details about the improvements in the OS...


T-Mobile releases Samsung Behold and Gravity

T-Mobile releases Samsung Behold and Gravity

07 Nov, 2008 | comments (43)

Today, T-Mobile officially released the rumored Samsung Behold and Samsung Gravity. The Behold has a large touchscreen display while the Gravity has a sliding QWERTY keyboard. Touchscreen Samsung T919 Behold looks like the Samsung F480 but on...


HTC Touch HD hits Asia too, America still on the waiting list

HTC Touch HD hits Asia too, America still on the waiting list

07 Nov, 2008 | comments (42)

We have received word on the next wave of countries to get the Windows Mobile uber device - HTC Touch HD. Only a few days after its European premiere HTC brought joyful news to all its fans in Asia by announcing that the HD will be available on the...