As promised O2 is bringing the GSM version of the Palm Pre to the lucky people of Europe and by mid-October you can have it too. So far, O2 Germany, UK and Ireland websites have information about the upcoming release. Strangely enough Movistar that should be offering the Pre in Spain is still quiet about it. Movistar was supposed to offer the Palm Pre in Spain and it was sort of ... Read More

And you thought T-Mobile and Sprint were sniffing the good stuff when they demanded $350 for the HTC Touch Pro2. Shortly after Instinct HD boxes began showing up at select Sprint stores, the flagging carrier has finally come forward with an official ship date (9/27) and price. Try as we may, we still can't figure out why exactly "HD" is tacked on the end of this thing; the 480 x ... Read More

We’ve known about the LG GW300 since July, but it’s only now that the phone is fully announced – in the UK at least. The GW300 is a messaging phone, so it comes with a full QWERTY keyboard, a Facebook application, email, and LiveSquare, a feature that gathers your favorite contacts on the phone’s homescreen “as avatars”. LG GW300 also features tri-band GSM connectivity, a 2.4 inch QVGA landscape display, Bluetooth 2.1, ... Read More

We'd figured the Corby (or Genio, if you prefer) was just a single model in Samsung's vast lineup that would soon be forgotten, but silly us -- it turns out the brand name's being spun into an entire range of products. Sammy's just added the CorbyTXT and CorbyPRO to the original model, bringing midrange portrait and landscape QWERTY options to complement the Corby's full touch configuration. Both feature a 3.5mm ... Read More

Microsoft is going all out and expediting their launch of Windows Mobile 6.5 with an estimated 30 smartphones to be made available before the end of 2009. Sure Android has come far with a small following to manifest into a big name player in the mobile platform world. Fortunately for Microsoft they are keeping up with the competition while being backed by some 15 handset vendors. HTC, HP, Sony Ericsson, ... Read More

Orange Armenia may become the second biggest mobile company in Armenian market in terms of number of subscribers very soon, Orange Vice-President for Europe Olaf Swantee said in Paris in responding to ARKA Agency. Despite the fact that we are coming to the Armenian market as the third operator, we can become the second in terms of number of subscribers very quickly,” Swantee said. According to experts, mobile coverage is currently about ... Read More

Making its appearance first in February, the LG GB250 has now found its way on to the Canadian cellular network.  The clamshell may not be your ideal device if you are on the prowl for high-end features, but it does make for an affordable solution if it’s a handset for your kid.  The GB250 features a 2-inch 176×220-pixel internal display, a 1.3 megapixel camera with video capture ability, an mp3 ... Read More

What, you didn't know you couldn't buy the iPhone from at least one carrier in all 193 widely-recognized sovereign nations of the world? It's true; one need look no further than South Korea, one of the most technologically-advanced wireless societies, where much of the growth over the past several years has occurred in a self-imposed bubble thanks to the existence of policies requiring the presence of a custom software layer ... Read More

Some of you who have been restlessly awaiting the arrival of Google's official Gmail push solution for mobile phones can relax now. On Tuesday, Google expanded the over-the-air syncing capabilities in its Google Sync service to include Google's e-mail--but only for the iPhone and iPod Touch (version 3.0), and for Windows Mobile phones. Google Sync began as a beta service to sync Google calendar items and contacts to iPhone, Windows Mobile, ... Read More

Huawei has just announced its plans to launch a 56Mb/s HSPA+ commercial solution in 2010. This initiative will allow operators to provide download speeds twice faster than the ones available today. The new technology was demoed in Beijing during P&T Wireless & Networks Comm China 2009. Huawei_Logo The HSPA+ solution features multi-carrier and MIMO (multiple-input-multiple-output) technologies, that’ll generate record breaking data speeds. The operators that use Huawei’s 4th gen and 38xx series ... Read More