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While Apple are still mum when it comes to the launch date of the next-gen iPhone, surprisingly, they have just announced when is coming the next iPhone OS. The iPhone OS 4 will be unveiled in a couple of days, on 8 April. And, reportedly, it will...

Samsung’s Bada OS launched with the top-spec'd Samsung S8500 Wave. Four previously unseen phones were shown and their relative prices were hinted at - they will soon make Bada smartphones more affordable. At an event in St. Petersburg, Samsung...

European HTC Hero will obviously have to wait two more weeks for the long awaited upgrade to Android 2.1. In other news HTC Desire hasn't made it to all markets yet but it's already got its first software update. HTC released the new ver....

Motorla BACKFLIP is a nice Android smartphone with a full QWERTY keyboard in a one-off form factor. We just got word it's should be available in Germany (Amazon.de and Mobilcom) any day now at a retail price of 439 and 499 euro...

The fusion of Moblin and Maemo is complete - the source code repositories are open to the public and there are three MeeGo test images ready for downloading - one for the Nokia N900, one for Atom-based netbooks and one for Moorestown Atom handsets...

The latest navigation-centered device of the Garmin-Asus alliance, the nuvifone M10, is the first smartphone in India to come with Windows Mobile 6.5.3 out of the box. Reportedly, the phone is already available in a number of stores across the...

Update 02 April: April Fools’ Day prank. Here is how it’s done. First we captured a video of a real iPhone - notice that the sequence shown on the video can be produced by pressing the Home button only. Then we cropped and resampled the video, so...

Update 02 April: Yes, it’s an April Fools’ Day prank and quite obvious one. We did it just to lower your guard for the second “Hakintosh” hit. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a big one for you. After more than a year of hard work and tough...

With the smartphone competition heating up, there's one platform that's gone largely overlooked - BREW. Now, the HTC Smart is launching in India, which is one of the fastest growing mobile phone markets. The HTC Smart, which was announced this...

April is shaping up as quite a month for the industry - we just overheard that Orange UK will be the only carrier to sell the HTC Desire in black, while O2 UK is expecting the HTC HD mini (besides the Desire again). Anyway, here's the situation...

There are very few free GPS navigation apps for the iPhone and none that pack voice guidance. Today MapQuest 4 Mobile became the first to combine the best of both worlds, bringing joy to the iPhone users in the US. The MapQuest 4 Mobile is...

Some more specs of the rumored Nokia N8 were uncovered. What is said to be Nokia's first 12MP cameraphone leaked through an XML on the company's website. An nHD screen and Symbian^3 are all but certain, though nothing about the key feature of the...

It's been a week since Motorola MILESTONE users got the official Android 2.1 upgrade and now they can get the latest version of the Android OS Over-The-Air. So, no computers or wires needed. As you already know, the update brings along support...

HTC CEO Peter Chou confirmed that HTC intend to release a Windows Phone 7 series device by the end of this year. This statement ends the speculations that HTC may drop the new OS until Microsoft permit custom UIs. As you already know, Microsoft...

Time for another survey - this one is app store centered. It reveals some unsurprising things (the Apple App Store is on top) and surprising ones - carrier app stores are still going strong, despite everyone and their mother having a device-specific...

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 launch detected! That's right, the long awaited company's first Android handset is now available. The smartphone previously known as Rachael can be yours for some good 770 US dollars. The long wait for Sony Ericsson...

The Samsung S8500 Wave is the world's first DivX Certified for HD phone with the Samsung I9000 Galaxy S close behind. Also, the Samsung Wave is available for preorder in the UK not long after it showed up in German online stores. The Samsung...

The newly announced Samsung I9000 Galaxy S is a VIP guest at the Samsung booth at this year's CTIA Wireless expo and is naturally enjoying quite a lot of attention. We have several videos of the handset in action, demonstrating its remarkable...

It's the end of a saga - the HTC HD2, the Nokia 5230 Nuron and the Motorola CLIQ XT have arrived at the T-Mobile USA shop. It's been rumored many times before but the trio is available at long last - each one with a different OS, each one with a...

Today Samsung unveiled their new Android flagship, the Samsung I9000 Galaxy S. Packing a 4" Super AMOLED display and a 1 GHz CPU inside an ultra thin body, the Galaxy S is certainly among the hottest Android smartphones to-date. Running on a...