Samsung is rolling out new versions of its highly popular Star S5230 handset in Germany. The first one is the LaFleur edition, which used to be available for one other Samsung phone – F480. The special version of the handset will come in red with floral patterns on the case. The second Star version is FIFA World Cup Fan Package, which is obviously made to celebrate the upcoming 2010 FIFA World Cup ... Read More

Bling Telecom has launched a new CDMA music phone called Movil MC1 in Indian market. This is basically a music phone with some of the basic features. The phone provides high acoustic clarity and the dual speakers deliver optimum sound to the user. This Movil phone is designed to be user friendly and has some dedicated music keys that have been placed on top of the cell for convenient access. The handset ... Read More

The Samsung Omnia II was released late last year an awesome spec sheet, and buggy software(from my experience.) Well Samsung is working on an update and it will include Windows Mobile’s finest software… Windows Mobile 6.5.3. This comes from Samsung Hub, who reports that Samsung Sweden has confirmed the WM 6.5.3 update for the Omnia II, which I am sure many O2 Owners are happy to hear. The update is rumored ... Read More

Nokia is about to launch a new version of its popular E72 smartphone. A new version actually means new color – white. At the moment, the E72 is available in four color options (black, grey, brown and purple) and with the addition of white, I’m betting the Finnish company will move even more units — Nokia E71, which is the predecessor of the E72, is still selling like crazy in white. Anyway, ... Read More

It seems that last year's hybrid Chairman phone is now out of stock and its Swiss maker Ulysse Nardin is preparing the successor. The new Chairman has a touchscreen, 8MP camera and some good 32GB worth of storage. The Chairman is not the usual luxury phone you are used to see. Beneath the shiny armor lies Android-driven smartphone with all the high-end features you might expect. Besides the phone part, the Chairman ... Read More

Philips is out with a new dual SIM phone, part of its Xenium family – X510. The all-touchscreen device is made for markets of Russia, China and other parts of Asia where this functionality (having two SIM cards working at the same time) is well appreciated. Feature wise, we’re talking about a low-to-mid range handset, sporting such things as a 3.1-inch QVGA display, 2-megapixel camera, dual-band (900/1800 MHz) radio and a ... Read More

Bad news. There’s no way around it: this is just bad news. If you’ve been keeping up with the torrid love affair that HTC has with Android 2.1, then you know that the much needed update from Android 1.5 to Android 2.1 has been long overdue. And teased, and rumored, and even confirmed at one point or another over the last several months. Dating back to October, actually. But, now, ... Read More

One of the largest desktop and mobile PC manufacturers has now set its sight on the smartphone market. Four upcoming Android-running smartphones leaked and their specs are nothing short of thrilling. The Dell Thunder, Aero, Smoke and Flash all pack pretty powerful hardware and impressive design. The Dell Thunder is the company flagship, packing a 4.1" WVGA OLED display and an 8 megapixel autofocus camera. There's heavy emphasis on social-network integration ... Read More

There's quite a storm brewing over at Dell - starting with the Dell Lightning, a killer-specced Windows Phone 7 device. A 4.1" OLED screen and 1GHz Snapdragon CPU are just a brief flash of what the Lightning has to offer. The Dell Lightning is a portrait slider with a full QWERTY keyboard. It runs Windows Phone 7 and has a massive 4.1" WVGA Samsung OLED (here's hoping that it's a SuperAMOLED ... Read More

We knew Lenovo  was going to introduce their LePhone into the world at some point. It was unveiled at CES earlier this year, and is quite the phone. The LePhone will be launched next month, but the Chinese company held an event for the device, and shared it’s ambitions as they begin to enter the mobile space. The LePhone is probably the most interesting Android device to date, as far as ... Read More