Apple has announced its iPod touch and iPhone users have downloaded over two billion applications from its App Store. This is a frankly startling number, especially when you consider the App Store was only opened for business in July 2008. The number of applications downloaded hit 300 million by December that year, crossed the billion mark in April 2009, and had hit 1.5 billion in time for the App Store's first anniversary. Broad ... Read More

Online retailer Expansys is now offering the Android powered Acer A1 for pre-order (in German). Back in June, when Acer joined Android's Open Handset Alliance(INFO), it promised that its first Android handsets would be available in Q4 of this year. This move by Expansys seems to suggest that may indeed happen. There are some questions, though. Expansys has the device listed as running on the Android 2.0 platform, which is mislabeled ... Read More

Ah – there we are. Just as the long rumored Motorola Sholes started to slip off the radar after failing to make an appearance at Motorola’s big (read: somewhat underwhelming) Android announcement earlier this month, it has moseyed its way right through the FCC. Now that the FCC has verified that the Sholes wont melt your brain or ruin all nearby radio equipment, when can we expect it to launch? Well, ... Read More

The Barrage of Samsung cellphones that are revealed every other day hasn’t stopped and we now hear of two more handsets that are headed directly to US Cellular’s camp, the Trill and Caliber.  Of the two, the r850 Caliber fares a little above average raking in a 3.2-inc WQVGA display, a 3-megapixel shooter with video recording, TouchWiz UI, and an HTML browser, which makes a strongly equipped mid-ranger.  The r520 ... Read More

A new entry-level Samsung phone is coming soon: the Samsung C5130, a slider that doesn’t look too different from the other entry-level sliders announced by the South Korean company until now. There aren’t too many advanced features packed into the Samsung C5310. The handset comes with a 2 inch 176 x 144 pixels display with 262K colors, Bluetooth 2.0, music player, FM radio, 1.3MP camera and MicroSD card support. The phone also ... Read More

China Unicom, which announced that they’ve struck a deal with Apple last month to bring the iPhone to China, has now confirmed the launch date and pricing. For 5,000 yuan (733 US Dollars; 502 Euros; 464 British Pounds) you’ll be able to snatch up an iPhone, although it isn’t clear if that is the 3G model or 3GS. The high price is due to China Unicom wanting more monies to ... Read More

Well well, turns out rumors sometimes do come true. The widely speculated end to O2's exclusivity of the iPhone is now upon us and Orange is the first competitor to throw its hat into the ring. The company has not yet released tariff pricing, but there's a tantalizingly small release window, as availability is promised "later this year." At least there's finally some competition when it comes to the iPhone ... Read More

We have seen a lot of mobile phone with unique casings but if you are among the eco-friendly kind, here is one that should appeal to you thanks to the Japanese masterminds. The Touch Wood Phone was revealed over at the DoCoMo website, a phone prototype made up of surplus wood from trees. The phone body is made from cypress wood and obviously adheres to the trend of applying that touch of ... Read More

While several shipping dates have come and gone, we're still hopeful of seeing Garmin's nuvifone in the flesh and on the street at some point in the future. If you've forgotten (and nobody would really blame you), the HSDPA, quad-band handset will boast GPS (of course), WiFi, Bluetooth, plus a full browser. The G60's been available in Asia for some time now, and while a confirmed US launch has been ... Read More

As promised, the Apple iPhone finally has the capability to send multimedia messages to another phone number. Whatever AT&T had to do to gets its act together, the carrier did it. The update went live just a moment ago, and I've successfully sent my first MMS on CNET's iPhone 3G. I was able to exchange photos both with another iPhone and a Samsung SPH-M330 on Sprint. You'll need to connect to iTunes ... Read More