Samsung has exceeded its target for mobile phone sales in 2009, with the electronics giant breaking its self-imposed 200 million handset goal. Samsung is the second biggest seller in the mobile phone world, and after narrowly missing out on the 200 million mark in 2008, it was confident of breaking it this year. And that confidence was not misplaced, with the company now stating that it has surpassed its target, in a ... Read More

Reuters reports that Nokia plans to launch only one Maemo-powered smartphone in 2010, according to a source with direct knowledge of Nokia's 2010 product roadmap. Though a Nokia spokesman would not comment on plans for future products, he did say that the company remains committed to its Symbian operating system. Nokia's stance has not changed since August when it negated reports that said that the company would begin focusing on Maemo ... Read More

Samsung latest Windows Phone SPH-M8400 (code name- Wibro) now available in any KT Stores over Korea. This phone seems to be an alternative to the HTC almighty HD2, at least in Korea. Running Windows Mobile 6.5, Windows Phone SPH-M8400, features a 3.7” AMOLED WVGA touchscreen (Lame), a 5Mpix AF camera module, T-DBM Digital Mobile TV, WCDMA, WiFi, Bluetooth and Wibro (Wimax). It also features Samsung latest UI that suppose to ... Read More

This article contains unofficial information. LG announced officially the LG ARENA KM900 back in February 2008 and introduced their new, proprietary S-Class 3D interface with it. Now, information about a still unknown LG device going by the name LG Arena Max (index LU9400) has appeared on the website of Wi-Fi Alliance. We still don´t know much about the mysterious handset except for the fact it will come with built-in Wi-Fi module, ... Read More

Acer jumped headfirst into the mobile phone market this year, mostly relying on the tried and true PocketPC. They are readying themselves for year two and are promising a balanced WinMo / Android mix. This week marks the launch of their first attempt at an Android phone – the Acer Liquid. The Acer Liquid runs Android 1.6 Donut on a Snapdragon CPU (clocked at 768MHz) with a WVGA touchscreen and a ... Read More

Due to porting issues with the Sense UI, Android 2.0 has yet to come to the HTC Hero although HTC and Sprint promise a forthcoming update. There’s no telling when the update will come along but the above screen shot was supposedly taken on an HTC Hero running Android 2.0. Does this mean that Hero owners will be skipping 2.0 all together and be jumping right to 2.1? Either way, free turn-by-turn ... Read More

If I had $3.2 million dollars to throw away on something like a phone, I’d much rather just build an army of robot carrier pigeons to deliver all my messages by hand. Some, I suppose, prefer a bit more rationale in their complete irrational purchases – thus the existence of this $3.2 million dollar iPhone. The man behind the bedazzler was Stuart Hughes. First he covered it in 22 cts gold ... Read More

AT&T has officially announced the LG eXpo (also known as LG Monaco and LG IQ), presented as the United States’ first phone to feature a 1GHz CPU, as well as the first to have an optional integrated pico projector. The eXpo is actually not a simple phone, but a smartphone that runs Windows Mobile 6.5 and features a WVGA touchscreen display, full QWERTY keyboard, HSDPA, GPS, 5MP camera and MicroSD card ... Read More

S60 or otherwise, it's pretty tough to argue with the meaty goodness of an 8 megapixel cam paired with an AMOLED display -- especially when it's being delivered on carrier subsidy. Rogers customers have another reason to celebrate their network's willingness to release a glorious variety of largely untouched, sparsely branded handsets this week on news that the Nokia N86 8MP is now available for CAD $99.99 ($94) on a ... Read More

The stores have temporarily halted sales of the Satio until manufacturer Sony Ericsson offers fixes for issues that customers raised, which include random powering-down and slowness. (See our review for some user comments that have raised similar issues). Apparently, a firmware upgrade won't fix the issue, so the handsets must be recalled. Speaking to The Times, Richard Dorman, Sony Ericsson's Senior Marketing Manager, said: "Sales of the product have been very strong ... Read More