Alcatel, which is known for it’s wide range of budget based mobile phones, such as the OT-980 and Tribe, will soon be launching a new phone,OT-808, totally different form other Alcatel phones.
The new phone features an interesting design, uncommon to entry level handhelds, which gives the impression that you are not so much getting a [...]

An employee at T-Mobile allegedly passed on the details – which included contract information – to brokers for “substantial amounts” of money.
The information was then sold it on to rival phone firms who, armed with the information of when the mobile contracts were due up for renewal, were in a position to ‘cold call’ customers [...]

Today Nokia announced 5330 TV Edition, which is the musical version of Nokia 5330 XpressMusic and supports mobile TV in DVB-H format. Besides the television services and a slightly modified design nothing else differs the new product from its predecessor.The other specs of 5330 Mobile TV Edition are similar to the ones included in the [...]

Bellperre announced the release of a new collection of elite smartphones made out of “the very finest authentic materials”, including hand-crafted wood (Walnut, Elm, Zebrano or Wenge) – Finest Woods, running Windows Mobile. As always happens with luxurious devices, the special feature is their design, rather than technical specifications. Hand-processed walnut, elm, zebrawood or wenge [...]

Google announced about an agreement of buying AdMob, a California-based company that presents itself as the “world’s largest mobile advertising marketplace.”
Susan Voysitski, the vice president of the product management department of Google, said that mobile advertising is very promising and growing industry, in which AdMob has achieved a great success.

AdMob Founder Omar Hamoui noted that [...]

LG is going to use the Snapdragon chips to produce a new smartphones. Now it’s known that the first snapdragon based smartphone will be launched in the second quarter of 2010. The new phone will run Android, most likely the version 2.0.
LG does not have much experience in the production of Android phones (only the [...]

AT&T has filed a lawsuit against Verizon, claiming that their recent ‘There’s a Map for That’ ad campaign is offensive and misleading and is resulting the loss of “incalculable market share.”

In essence, we believe the ads mislead consumers into believing that AT&T doesn’t offer ANY wireless service in the vast majority of the country. In [...]

The research company Canalys surveyed more than 3000 European mobile phone users. The result revealed that 53% of owners of touch phones are going to choose a device with usual buttons while purchasing a new phone.
The proportion of satisfied users with touch features of smartphones is high among the owners of HTC and Apple devices, [...]

Financial problems are forcing Nokia to restructure, which will cause the dismissal of 7% to 9% from 64 thousand employees. Thus, Nokia expects to significantly reduce expenses and optimize its activities. It’s expected that as a result of layoffs the company will reduce expenses up to 500 million euro (approximately 738 million dollars).
The dismissal will [...]

Finally! Sony Ericsson unveiled its first Android-smartphone and called it Xperia X10, and not X3 or Rachael, as it was rumored before.
The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 – is a functional monoblock with no keypad equipped with 4-inch touch screen display and 8-megapixel camera. Moreover, the oppor of the camera include not only auto-focus and digital [...]

TAG Heuer, the Switzerland-based luxury watch maker famous for its chronographs and sports watches, introduced the limited edition of luxury phones MERIDIIST Automobili Lamborghini as a result of the cooperation with the Italian manufacturer of high-quality cars.

It will be released only in 1,963 units, as tribute to the year Lamborghini was founded. The new handset [...]

The detailed specifications of HTC Droid Eris have leaked in the web. The phone will go on sale on November 6, together with Motorola Droid.
The rumors that this middle-class Android phone is equipped with 3.2 “display with 320×480 pixels resolution and Qualcomm processor with a frequency of 528 MHz have been confirmed.

HTC Droid Eris also [...]

A week after Motorola Droid’s announcement, the phone already launches as Motorola Milestone in Europe.
Motorola Milestone is not exactly the same phone as Verizon Droid. Motorola Milestone comes with multi-touch pinch&zoom gesture support, which, for some reason, was disabled in Droid. But it lost the free turn-by-turn navigation from Google, probably because this feature is [...]

LG has just announced a new touchscreen phone in South Korea – the LG SB210.  Apart from providing usual features this device also offers maps for 280 golf courses and other golf-related services, including a so-called “Receive PJT” application. The phone is equipped with a G-sensor, compass and a calories calculator.

Here are the main specifications [...]

The rumors, that Google is going to produce it’s own smartphone, have been denied by the head of Android development department Andy Rubin. He stressed that Google is not going to compete with partners by releasing their own phone. Andy Rubin added that the company is not engaged in hardware.
At the same time Google accepts [...]