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Samsung F480 gets two new editions - Rockstar and La Fleur

04 Feb, 2009 | Comments (19) | Post your comment Tags: Samsung , Touch UI Samsung have announced the new reincarnation of their highly popular Samsung F480 model. This time there's a Rockstar Edition featuring PINK and her new album. You can bet that the new e... More...

LG introduces simple, utterly forgettable KM330 candybar

by Darren Murph , posted Feb 5th 2009 at 11:48PM LG's got the low-end handset beat down pat , as evidenced by its nearly continuous flow of simplistic handsets aimed at overseas markets. The KM330 is actually fairly stylish for what it is, which is a tri-band GSM mobile with a three me... More...

RIM sells 50M BlackBerrys, Symbian says "how very quaint"

by Chris Ziegler , posted Feb 5th 2009 at 9:01PM A little more than ten years since the first BlackBerry hit the market, RIM is celebrating a major milestone: 50 million units sold, with 21 million subscribers (suggesting subscribers have averaged over two BlackBerry purchases) transf... More...

RIM's co-CEO Balsillie stepping down from board as part of backdating settlement

by Jacob Schulman , posted Feb 5th 2009 at 6:51PM Remember that settlement RIM reached with the Ontario Securities Commission yesterday? Well, details of the arrangement have emerged, and Reuters is reporting that in addition to over $90 million CAD being repaid, the company's co-CE... More...

Sprint has a year to sell Nextel spectrum in iPCS regions

by Chris Ziegler , posted Feb 5th 2009 at 6:09PM Okay, so it's not just that Sprint can't offer service on iPCS' turf -- it's that they have to offload all that airspace, too. Cook County Circuit Court in Illinois has decided that Sprint needs to sell off its Nextel service areas that over... More...

Samsung milks F480 a little longer with Rockstar and La Fleur models

by Darren Murph , posted Feb 5th 2009 at 4:41PM Seriously Samsung -- you should know what happens when a company settles for churning out modified versions of the same thing for too long. If not, just ping whomever is left at Motorola's mobile division. Bad slams aside, the longstanding... More...

BlackBerry Storm vs. Bold vs. Curve 8900... fight!

by Chris Ziegler , posted Feb 5th 2009 at 3:58PM Between Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile, we now have a royal flush of latest-gen BlackBerrys from which to choose: the Storm , the Bold , and the lovely Curve 8900 . Curious what a family reunion would look like? Head on over to En... More...

Nokia E75 clearly in the wild in Vietnam

by Darren Murph , posted Feb 5th 2009 at 3:03PM We can't say for sure why Nokia 's still-not-official E75 is camped out in Vietnam, but it is. It definitely is. Unlike the Mr. Blurrycam shots we've grown (sadly) accustomed to dealing with, the smattering of shots hosted up in the rea... More...

Fido's shops start stocking BlackBerry Pearl 8100

/h2> by Sean Cooper , posted Feb 5th 2009 at 1:26PM Fido's BlackBerry 8100 has been rumored , caught in the wild, confirmed , and now we finally see it on the site and priced. First the price, apparently Fido really wants you on contract for 3 years, as it is $25, with 2 years h... More...

Fujitsu launches ambitious Services built for Android initiative

by Darren Murph , posted Feb 6th 2009 at 3:52AM Due to the natural imperfections of machine translation, we're still a touch unclear on what all Fujitsu 's getting at here, but one thing is perfectly understood: it's hoping to get Android onto more devices. Similar to what has happened... More...

Windows Mobile 6.5 coming soon, WinMo 7 later this year

by Matt Burns on February 5, 2009 We have already seen what 6.5 screenshots of the next WinMo refresh , but now we have a roadmap of the mobile OS. It seems that manufacturers will get the 6.5 update in April and those devices should ... More...

Acme i8910 Samsung superphone spied

by Matt Burns on February 5, 2009 The Mobile World Conference is almost here and the pre-show leaks are flowing nicely. The Acme i8910 Samsung phone will hopefully make a MWC debut and if the leaked specs are correct, it’s go... More...

Yet another Samsung phone leaks: the C6625

by Greg Kumparak on February 5, 2009 Jeez - at this point, saying something like “when it rains , it pours ” would almost seem rude. The number of Samsung phones leaked prior to MWC has now leapt out of “... More...

2009: Year of the Snapdragon?!

by Jeremy Kessel on February 5, 2009 It seems like only yesterday (although technically, it was 48+ hours ago) when Qualcomm’s Snapdragon remained a mythical (mobile technology) beast, yet to be discovered by the modern (hands... More...

Verizon going BOGO for BlackBerry

by Greg Kumparak on February 5, 2009 Any chump can have one BlackBerry. But you, you .. you’ve got bigger dreams. You want to rock the pair, to tote the twins. You want two BlackBerry handsets. Beginning tomorrow, Verizon w... More...

How to get RC33 on your G1 without the wait

by Greg Kumparak on February 5, 2009 If you’re a G1 owner and are anything like us, you’ve been checking your handset every 20 minutes for the last two days in hopes that it’s finally your turn to bask in... More...

Review: QB PASS ATTACK and X’s & O’s FOOTBALL for the iPhone.

by Jay Donovan on February 5, 2009 What else have you got going on while you’re “taking the Browns to the Super Bowl”, if you get my meaning ? A Newspaper? Popular Mechanics? Why not multitask and play some mo... More...

Intel and AMD to power PS4, Xbox 720, and WiiII?

by Devin Coldewey on February 5, 2009 A little creative thinking over at the Inquirer has led them to suggest that Nvidia may get left out in the cold come the new generation of gaming consoles. Intel and AMD are set to split the spoil... More...

Review: Casio Oceanus Super Chronograph

by Dave Freeman on February 5, 2009 Casio has an image problem in the US. Known as a great source of cheap digital watches, sometimes people forget that they also have a line of high-end models as well. When you say Casio people usually... More...

X-Men trilogy finally coming out on Blu-ray, pre-order now

by Matt Burns on February 5, 2009  After The Matrix and Lord of the Rings, X-Men is the must-have nerd trilogy of the decade and it’s finally going to be available on Blu-ray. Amazon is already taking pre-orders for the April ... More...
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