Mobile Phones

If you are patiently waiting for the launch of the new HTC Salsa and HTC ChaCha Facebook phones, you will be pleased to know they have taken a little step closer to launch and are now available to pre-order. The official launch date for both phones is June 26th 2011 but the Facebook phones are now listed on Amazon for the following prices, [...]

The Dell Venue Pro has been available in the US with mobile operator T-Mobile, but now it looks like it is now also available with AT&T as it has appeared on the Dell website for sale with an AT&T contract. The Dell Venue pro costs $99 up front and you have to sign up to [...]

Creative has launched a new line of headphones to add to its range named the WP Series, designed for mobile phone users who want the best voice quality for calls and the best audio playback quality for music, and which will be arriving in stores both this month and during September 2011. The new Creative WP Series [...]

If you are in the market for a new bluetooth headset then the Nokia J might be worth a look. The newly launched Nokia J headset has already won a number of design awards. Including the red dot Design Winner 2011, iF Product Design Award 2011, and International CES Innovations Design and Engineering Showcase Honor 2011. The new [...]

Researchers from Queen’s University in Ontario Canada have taken the term ‘flexible phone’ literally and create a super slim bendable touch screen phone using ductile e-ink display and elastic electronic underpinnings. The PaperPhone is the world’s first next generation, thin film smartphone and interactive paper computer. Which uses a flexible electrophoretic (E Ink) display that will not [...]

Thanks to the early release of a printed brochure from Fujitsu, their new Loox F-07C smartphone/UMPC has just been leaked and unveiled with the ability to run dual operating systems. The Fujitsu Loox F-07C is capable of running both Windows 7 and Symbian OS’ onboard and is equipped with a 4-inch screen with a resolution of 1024 x 600. Its powered by a Intel Atom Z600 [...]

If you are a Windows or Android user and are worried about the reports of phone carriers cracking down on tethering apps. A new version of PdaNet 3.0 has been released which now includes a feature to ‘Hide Tether Usage’ from carriers. Mobile Carriers in the US have started cracking down on some  tethering apps [...]

Google has announced that its Google Voice service is now available with mobile carrier Sprint in the US, and you now have two different way to bring Google Voice to your Sprint smartphone. You can either keep you Sprint mobile phone number, and then you Sprint phone number becomes you Google Voice number and it [...]

It’s been almost three years and the whole $1 app ecosystem the App Store embodies still makes old school video game industry people about as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a rocking chair factory. Microsoft is looking at it from the bottom of a well, Nintendo just flat out refuses to acknowledge it and [...]

Verizon Wireless have just released an announcement confirming that their 4G LTE Network is now back online and fully working once again, after being offline for around 24hrs. The update came via Twitter and states “4G LTE up and running. Thank you for your patience.”

Due to the problems Verizon is currently experiencing with its 4G LTE Network todays launch of the Droid Charge has been postponed by Verizon, Motorola and Samsung. Reports are however now trickling through that some service has been restored to the troubled Verizon 4G LTE Network in the past few hours and connections do seem to be gradually returning [...]

It has been announced by Motorola that it will start to provide unlocked bootloaders on its future Android phones. The new bootloaders are expected to appear on Android devices later in the year, and have been one of the most requested apps by Motorola Android users in recent months.