The Motorola FLIPOUT is an Android handset with a very unusual form factor, following on from the similarly named BACKFLIP and based on the same platform as the Motorola DEXT. The rounded-off square design hides a five row QWERTY keyboard that rotates out from underneath, giving a fairly narrow set of keys with the slightly unusual feature of a row of number keys. Although the form factor is unusual, it ... Read More

T-Mobile is getting a scoopful of affordable LG phones and there's another LG on the verge of becoming official - the LG GM360 Viewty Snap otherwise known as Bali. Two of the LG handsets for T-Mobile are not new models, but rebranded current models - one of the Cookie family and the Lollipop. The LG GM360 Viewty Snap is an affordable descendant of the Viewty - it's a touch phone with ... Read More

The HTC Aria, described as the “smallest Android device” to date, has been spotted on the way to AT&T (NYSE: T) from HTC. How small is it? Well, that little white paper there is a standard-size business card, meaning the display is between 2.5″ and 2.8″ like the Tattoo or Wildfire. It looks almost like Reducto  took his shrink gun to the Legend. The Aria packs Android 2.1 with Sense ... Read More

U.S. Cellular announced a new flip phone created by Personal Communication Devices (PCD), the CDM8635. The CDM8635 offers a 2.2-inch main display, a 1.5-inch mono external display, 1GB of flash, 512MB of RAM, and a 1.3 megapixel camera. It's designed with four dedicated shortcut keys to quickly zoom, launch the speakerphone, set your alarm, or view picture albums. The CDM8635 is also capable of reading menu messages, provides voice dialing, and ... Read More

Acer announced a Ferrari special edition version of its Liquid E smartphone. The device sports a glossy red casing with a chrome trim, a 3.5-inch touchscreen display, and a "Scuderia Ferrari" shield that has carbon fiber details. Acer also redesigned the microphone to resemble the sportscar's air-intake inlet. Continuing the Ferrari theme, Acer revamped the user interface for fans of the Rossa. There's a 5-page homescreen with a Ferrari wallpaper, and ... Read More

We first saw the LG GT350 back in February when the handset had been slated for an April release. Well, things have slipped a bit and now LG have announced that the GT350 should be available to consumers this month. Along the way, the GT350 has picked up some additional names, and it will be called the LG Town GT350 in the UK and the LG GT350 Tribe in Italy, ... Read More

T-Mobile Hungary is said to be bringing Android 2.1 (Eclair) to the Huawei Pulse. This is certainly good news, as the device has been running on Android 1.5 for some time now. It may not be Froyo status, but it’s better than nothing. It certainly comes as a surprise to hear that of all Android devices out there, the Pulse is getting the 2.1 update. I’m sure there are no complaints ... Read More

Those in Canada who have been waiting feverishly for the pink BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) Pearl 3G 9100 was spotted late last week will be happy to hear that it’s now on the Telus (NYSE: TU) online store for $29.99 on contract, as rumoured. So, what about Bell and Rogers (NYSE: RCI)? Bell, and its subsidiary Virgin Mobile Canada, will apparently be selling the Pearl 3G for $49.99 on contract based ... Read More

Announced in January and launched around the world not long ago, the Brew-based HTC Smart might already get a sequel named HTC Smart2. CellPassion received some info according to which the Smart2 will be released in the next few months. Apparently, the Smart2 is “more or less similar” to the first Smart, but it will have two new important features: Wi-Fi, and Office Suite for editing documents. Like the Smart that’s currently ... Read More

The 5-inch tablet-meets-phone, the Dell Streak, is coming to O2 UK on June 4th. Everything is obviously going according to plan as today Carphone Warehouse (they will be selling the Streak besides O2), even announced the pricing - with and without a contract. The Dell Streak is an Android 1.6 Donut powered tablet (with plans to update it to 2.2 Froyo later this year) with a custom UI. The Streak shares ... Read More