Published On Thursday, August 12th 2010
The Motorola XT806 is bound for China and is one of the few remaining flip phones - but it's no ordinary flip phone. It runs Android, has dual-mode CDMA/GSM support and captures 720p videos with its 5MP camera.
A feature that is very important to Chinese customers is the handwriting recognition, which suggests a resistive display. But if it's like the Motorola MT810, it might have capacitive touch functionality too.
The Motorola ... Read More
Published On Thursday, August 12th 2010
Boost Mobile announced that it is joining Sprint in offering the Samsung SPH-m350 Seek QWERTY touchscreen phone.
The device is Boost's first touchscreen phone with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The Seek sports a 2.6-inch display, a 1.3 megapixel camera, wireless web and email access,GPS, a microSD card slot with support for 32GB cards, voice recognition, and more.
The Seek is available now from Boost Mobile retail stores for $149.99, and it will ... Read More
Published On Wednesday, August 11th 2010
The Motorola Droid 2 is not the only hot Android handset in town as Dell has finally decided to make the Streak available to the crowds. Unfortunately the tablet/smartphone will come to AT&T with Android 1.6 which is pretty disappointing for a device that wants to fight the top smartphones on the market.
Dell did say that Android 2.1 is coming soon, which is not Froyo but better than Donut. The ... Read More
Published On Wednesday, August 11th 2010
Every now and then a golden version of some phone comes out. Then there are the pink versions just in time for Valentine's day. Sony Ericsson does both and offers new paint jobs for the XPERIA X10 mini and the XPERIA X10 mini pro.
We know, it's much too early for Valentine's day but as Sony Ericsson proved telling time isn't one of their strong suits - yesterday's 13 hour countdown ... Read More
Published On Wednesday, August 11th 2010
It's not everyday that we see a new Nokia smartphone, especially not recently but we're not going to get all excited about this Nokia 5250 in the picture here. The phone looks great but unfortunately it's just another dumb smartphone. In other words, it doesn't run Symbian^3 and it won't have a fighting chance against the top Android devices.
But that doesn't mean the phone will not appeal to the masses, ... Read More
Published On Wednesday, August 11th 2010
Today Cricket Wireless announced the Cricket MSGM8 II (pronounced 'message mate 2'), a feature phone with a full QWERTY keyboard.
The device offers a similar feature set to the original MSGM8, and builds on it with a larger keyboard and dedicated keys for messaging and schedules.
The MSGM8 II offers a 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth connectivity, a 220 x 178 resolution display, a web browser, and well as SMS/MMS functions.
The MSGM8 II ... Read More
Published On Wednesday, August 11th 2010
The original Motorola DROID has been a significant hit in the US, and it showed that Motorola could actually compete head-on with the Apple iPhone and other high-end rivals.
There have been quite a few variants of this design such as the supersized DROID X, and the GSM MILESTONE and the Korean MOTOROI and European XT720 variants, but now Motorola have revisited the original handset in the series with some useful ... Read More
Published On Tuesday, August 10th 2010
The BlackBerry Torch is, at least for now, the brand new flagship device of RIM. The smartphone has been just announced in the USA and will be available in AT&T stores starting with August 12, but the AT&T is not the only North American carrier to get it.
Telus is now said to sell the BlackBerry Torch starting with September 16 and it's the first of the Big Three Canadian carriers ... Read More
Published On Tuesday, August 10th 2010
If you are an AT&T customer and your contract is about to end and you are looking for a new phone, or you are looking forward to switch to AT&T, then here is a good deal for you.
The latest phone launched by AT&T, and a good iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 alternative, the Samsung Captivate which is an AT&T Galaxy S model. The regular price of Captivate on AT&T is ... Read More
Published On Tuesday, August 10th 2010
The Nokia N8 was announced all the way back in April with the first hints of the new smartphone being found as early as March as well as even more details reaching back in to February.
All along we have been told to expect the end of August as the release date and in this instance, it seems Nokia were exact in what they said as we hear now that the ... Read More