Australians looking to get their fill of sleekly-styled BlackBerry goodness are going to be in for a treat, come September. Telstra has announced that they’ll be bringing the heralded BlackBerry Bold 9000 to their Aussie customer-base towards the end of September. The BlackBerry Bold boasts a full QWERTY-keyboard that RIM is so darn good at designing, [...]

Well that sure took a while. As the rest of the world had the honor of being  part of HTC’s launch markets for the up and coming HTC Touch Diamond, the US has had to wait for HTC to push their US-spec HTC Touch Diamond through the FCC. The HTC Touch Diamond already passed FCC [...]

T-Mobile has officially unveiled its latest QWERTY-equipped smartphone, the Sidekick 2008. With a 2 megapixel camera and video capture, the Sidekick 2008's microSD card slot should come in handy. Read the full story here.

The latest addition to the T-Mobile Sidekick family, confusingly called the "T-Mobile Sidekick", is the subject of our latest review. The new Sidekick is smaller, lighter, and more feature packed than ever. Read the full story here.

Today LG Electronics and Dolby Laboratories announced a partnership that will result in LG handsets incorporating Dolby's Dolby Mobile suite of audio enhancement technologies, including simulated surround sound. Read the full story here.

Software improvements bring personal style and customization to the Sidekick family Read the full story here.

Sprint has been ordered by a California court to repay $73 million in Early Termination Fees (ETF) that it collected from customers who wished to end their contact with the carrier early. Read the full story here.

A rumor posted at TmoNews.com states that T-Mobile might be planning to offer month-to-month post-paid rate plans as soon as August 6th. The plans would allow customers to pay full retail for their cell phone and not be tied down to a contract. Read the full story here.

The Motorola i776, yet another iDEN clamshell cell phone, has passed through the FCC, obviously destined for Sprint Nextel or Boost Mobile. With its built in camera and Bluetooth on board, the i776 offers a few niceties for the iDEN crowd. Read the full story here.

A new version of the HTC Touch Diamond, this time configured with dual-band UMTS (850/1900MHz) support for AT&T's high-speed 3G network has passed through the FCC recently. Read the full story here.

Today Garmin announced that its upcoming Nuvifone GPS smartphone will be delayed until the first half of 2009. Read the full story here.

The iPhone application analytics and advertising company Pinch Media and mobile search and advertising company JumpTap announced the creation of the iPhone application advertising network. Here’s why they think it’s significant: The partnership combines Pinch Media’s analytics and advertising technology for iPhone App Store applications with JumpTap’s comprehensive mobile ad network. Developers can easily insert advertisements [...]

According to a recent ABI Research survey, digital camera, Bluetooth, and music/radio playback are the top three features that consumers consider essential for the next mobile phone purchase. The desire for camera phones with 2 or more megapixels leads the pack with 47% of consumers listing this feature as a “must have,” followed by Bluetooth at [...]

Garmin has announced that it will be launching a BlackBerry app in Europe this September. At the moment, Garmin’s application is available in the U.S., only. In addition to turn-by-turn navigation, Garmin Mobile also includes access to Garmin Online, providing users with such features such as local traffic and weather conditions as well as Navteq’s database [...]

Sony Ericsson is preparing for the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing with the BOSCOSPORT styled S500i model. The so called Sony Ericsson S500i Bosco Edition is basically the same as the original device, expect for the ornaments which are decorated with images BOSCOSPORT. Additionally, the profile desktop is already injected with BOSCOSPORT-saver. Since 2002, the company [...]

China Mobile is already the world’s largest mobile operator in terms of number of subscribers, but that doesn’t mean they can’t impress the world again. According to China’s Ministry of Information Industry, China Mobile surpassed the 600 million subscriber mark as of end of June! 8.63 million new users registered for China Mobile in June alone, [...]

Verizon Wireless' Voice and High-Speed Data Services Available to New Qwest Residential and Business Customers Switch Details for Existing Customers to be Announced Soon Read the full story here.

Following on speculation that Sprint would go live with its signal-boosting Airave femtocell solution on July 15, it appears that Sprint has finally pinned down a firm nationwide launch date for its Airave.  Sprint customers with unacceptable signal strength in their homes can go about fixing their weak-signal issues in one of two ways. They [...]

We knew it was going to happen, but we had no idea that ASUS was looking to make such drastic cuts to its product pipeline. ASUS has confirmed that their Lamborghini-branded ASUS ZX1 Lamborghini smartphone will be headed to the chopping block. The move was expected. ASUS previously stated that they would be diverting resources [...]

As yet another answer to Apple’s iPhone and iPhone 3G handsets, Garmin’s Nuvifone was announced earlier this year to much fanfare and high expectations. Garmin’s prowess in GPS navigation devices was expected to give them an edge in a smartphone market that has essentially adopted GPS hardware as standard offerings. The Garmin Nuvifone was set [...]