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RUMOR: Sony Ericsson To Launch Full Touchscreen Jalou

Priya — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:38:06 +0000

The latest rumor is that Sony Ericsson is going to release a sequel to its other touchscreen phones, the Satio and the Aino. The next in SE’s full touchscreen line,…

Is The AT&T HTC Touch Pro 2 To Be Called Tilt 2?

Priya — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:28:16 +0000

We’d been hearing about the HTC Tilt 2 for some time and also had been suspecting it could be a variant of the HTC Touch Pro smartphone. There was news…

Samsung Omnia 2 And LG Chocolate Touch Scheduled For August 23 At Best Buy

Priya — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:15:05 +0000

According to some leaked reports, the Samsung Omnia 2 and the LG Chocolate Touch BL40 are supposedly gearing for release on August 23rd. A snapshot of a leaked document from…

AT&T Has Some Interesting Releases Up Its Sleeve

Priya — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:02:07 +0000

We have managed to get our hands on a supposed “pre-launch” list of AT&T phones. The list is very riveting indeed. It includes some very interesting phones such as the…

VIDEO: Nokia 5330 XpressMusic Is The Preferred Phone

Priya — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:52:32 +0000

The new Nokia 5330 XpressMusic, though without 3G, is still much more popular than its more expensive kin, the 5800. Here is an unboxing video of the Nokia 5330 XpressMusic,…

Virgin Media and Tesco Mobile UK Go ‘Unlimited’

Priya — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:56:53 +0000

We just told you how MetroPCS intends to increase business by offering revised service plans and additional features in each plan (click here for original post). Competition everywhere is pretty high.…

Orange UK Stipulates New Tariff To Stream Music

Priya — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:41:36 +0000

Orange UK has now joined hands with Universal Music and 4Music to spin off a free music streaming service for a new tariff it calls ‘Monkey’. This service is for…

MetroPCS Revises Service Plans, Offers Extra Features

Priya — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:25:17 +0000

MetroPCS has now revised some of its service plans and offered more features with them. Their $40 plan now comes with additional nationwide calling minutes, messaging and web data as…

SEVEN To Add More Than 50 Devices This Year

Priya — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:17:31 +0000

SEVEN has now officially announced that they will be adding over 50 new devices to its already large range of devices, giving a total of more than 500 such products…

Palm Pre Now Available At Amazon

Priya — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:07:01 +0000

Now you no longer need to buy your fave Palm Pre from Best Buy or Sprint. You can instead purchase it online from Amazon. The beautiful smartphone has just arrived…

REVIEW: The HTC Hero Android Smartphone

Priya — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:34:11 +0000

The latest Android offering from HTC, the HTC Hero, is an absolutely gorgeous smartphone with a great UI and even better apps. This is the very first Android phone from…

VIDEO: First LG BL40 Chocolate Phone Commercial

Priya — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:53:49 +0000

The LG BL40 Chocolate hone, the latest offering from LG Electronics, comes with a 4” wide screen, HSDPA, WiFi and aGPS. The second-generation Chocolate phone is very slim and svelte to…

VIDEO: Samsung Comeback Walkthrough

Priya — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:39:09 +0000

Here is a video tour of the Samsung Comeback, a cute and compact messaging phone from Samsung. This feature phone (or dumbphone, if you please) comes with a 2MP camera,…

VIDEO: Samsung S8000 Jet Review

Priya — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:04:26 +0000

The Samsung S8000 Jet is a wonderful phone with a stylish design and powerful multimedia functions. It comes with a WVGA resolution AMOLED display, Jet’s Dolfin Web browser and a…

Microsoft Ready To Okay Smartphone Apps For Windows Marketplace

Priya — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:02:07 +0000

Microsoft officially announced today that they are ready to accept applications for their Windows Marketplace smartphone app store. This will go on air as soon as Windows Mobile 6.5 becomes…

Introducing A Tiny Bluetooth Headset That Also Comes Real Cheap

Priya — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:48:11 +0000

Is any of you looking for a small Bluetooth headset that also comes with a reasonable price tag? Well, this one we just discovered fits that category and more. This…

Verizon Insists That It’s Getting The Palm Pre, “Early Next Year”

Priya — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:35:10 +0000

It’s a well-known fact that Verizon is still lusting after the Palm Pre, though the company tried very hard to play it down. Verizon’s aim was to overthrow Sprint’s hold…

BlackBerry Curve 8520 Is The Celeb Of The Day!

Priya — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:26:18 +0000

We had told you recently about the BlackBerry Curve 8520 going to Vodafone UK (click here for original post). Now, Pocket Lint has gotten some great pictures of this wonderful smartphone,…

T-Mobile G2 Touch Coming To The UK In The Next Few Days

Priya — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:10:59 +0000

While the US is getting ready to welcome the HTC Magic lookalike myTouch 3G smartphone, the UK has gone one step ahead and is now going to launch an Android-based…

VIDEO: Take A Look At The Samsung Jet Viral Ad

Priya — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:44:08 +0000

Samsung had commissioned a viral Ads agency to make a memorable ad for them. The said agency obliged and how!

Samsung Jet Ad

Check out the ad below – we are…

Motorola Officially Announces MOTODEV Program

Priya — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:31:58 +0000

Motorola has now officially announced MOTODEV, a set of development tools for Android. This will enable developers will early access to Google’s Android development tools, pre-release access tools and even…

RUMOR: New QWERTY Device With AMOLED Display Coming From HP

Priya — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:22:04 +0000

There are some rumors from certain online sources that claim that there is this latest smartphone coming soon from HP. The device, supposedly called the iPAQ K3 Obsidian, will have…

Now Vodafone UK Romances The BlackBerry 8520 Too

Priya — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:12:12 +0000

We at PhoneArea were pleasantly surprised when we learnt that Vodafone UK was launching a non-3G smartphone this year, the BlackBerry 8520. Of course, this is in rumor stage yet,…

Palm Pre Pricing Error At Best Buy Is Now Corrected

Priya — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:01:53 +0000

The latest gaffe from Palm and Best Buy has (sadly) just been corrected. Best Buy’s most recent ads of the Palm Pre showed the smartphone’s price as a mere $99,…

Yet-To-Be Revealed Nokia Phones Comes To FCC

Priya — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:52:50 +0000

The FCC site today includes one Nokia phone, which is yet announced. This clamshell phone appears to be headed to AT&T. The phone in question has chrome accents and comes…

VIDEO: T-Mobile myTouch 3G Review

Priya — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:45:22 +0000

Here’s the full video review of the T-Mobile myTouch 3G, which has been creating waves in the mobile market. This device, which looks very similar to the HTC Magic, is…

VIDEO: HTC Hero and Sense UI Walkthrough

Priya — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:35:05 +0000

We have already told you a lot about the HTC Hero, HTC’s Android smartphone. We now have a video walkthrough of the HTC Hero and Sense UI. Check it out…

Now Get Your Palm Pre Online From Sprint

Priya — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:03:11 +0000

Now Sprint has made its very popular Palm Pre smartphone available online for the very first time. The device had launched in June this year and, before now, had only…

RadioShack Enters A Deal With T-Mobile To Sell Its Devices And Services

Priya — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:55:28 +0000

RadioShack and T-Mobile today jointly announced that the former has entered into an agreement to sell T-Mobile cell phones and services, across over 4,000 RadioShack outlets in the US and…

Samsung S9110 Supposedly The Slimmest Watch Phone

Priya — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:47:34 +0000

Mobile world seems to be steadily filling up with watch phones these days. While the LG GD910 watch phone is soon coming to Europe next month, Samsung is busy promoting…

FCC Approves LG GW600 – Smartphone Headed To AT&T

Priya — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:35:46 +0000

The FCC files now include one more smartphone, the LG GW600. This is a Windows Mobile device, which is headed towards AT&T in the US.

Other specs of the GW600…

RUMOR: Unlocked Android-Run HTC Click To Be Dirt Cheap

Priya — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:27:36 +0000

We had brought you a rumor on the HTC Click just a couple of days ago. The HTC Click is supposedly HTC’s first Android low-end smartphone. Now here’s another rumor on…

Palm webOS 1.1 Available, Also Fixes Latest iTunes Sync Problem

Priya — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:18:01 +0000

Palm has just released webOS 1.1.0, which brings with it quite a few changes. The most important change is the patch note that says that it “resolves an issue preventing…

The Boost Mobile Motorola i465 Clutch To Appear In Graphite

Priya — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:03:13 +0000

We have been bringing you regular updates on the Boost Mobile Motorola i465 Clutch phone. The latest on this device is that this phone’s coming to mobile town in a new…

VIDEO: The Modu Is Now Released

Priya — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:48:57 +0000

We had told you about the Israeli handset, Modu, a few days back. Now, it is shortly getting released. For those not in the know, Modu has been planning a…

VIDEO: Google Latitude For iPhone Debuts Today

Priya — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:36:36 +0000

We do not have too much information on this one yet, but we hear that Google will be giving the Apple iPhone its location-sharing service that is built into Maps…

Samsung R560 May Be Going To MetroPCS

Priya — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:41:07 +0000

The Samsung R560 Vice, which features on the Samsung website, maybe going to MetroPCS in Canada. The Samsung R560 closely resembles the Samsung R450 Messager, which incidentally was also branded…

Vodafone UK Users Get Free Facebook

Priya — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:28:51 +0000

Vodafone UK announced in a press conference that its customers will now get access to Facebook for free through their mobile phones or PCs by using the Vodafone broadband service.…

TerreStar Finishes Testing Process Of Its Satellite Phone System

Priya — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:13:38 +0000

TerreStar now plans to make history by introducing their TerreStar phone service and TerreStar hybrid mobile phone as well. The company had released their TS-1 satellite earlier this month and…

VIDEO: Review Of The Nokia N86 8MP Camera Phone

Priya — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:52:54 +0000

We have been giving you regular updates on the Nokia N86 8MP camera phone. Now it is the time to take a full review of this wonderful device. The N86…