Rumors, being what they are, can always change mid-news-cycle. In this case, the rumors surrounding the HTC Touch Diamond’s arrival on Sprint and Verizon later this month (August 2008) has been updated to reflect new information from PhoneArena that points to the svelte touchscreen offering from HTC hitting Sprint and Verizon in early September and [...]

There are a host of new ways to interact with the new S60 Touch OS. With the addition of a touch-input interface, the S60 Touch UI will obviously accommodate finger-taps on the screen. But, the most important aspect of S60 Touch will be the web-browsing interface. The iPhone Safari browser has the touchscreen market dominated in [...]

The iPhone. It’s everywhere. Be it the iPhone or iPhone 3G, webmasters and administrators will probably have already noticed that iPhone traffic to their websites has increased in the past months. Schmap, the iPhone-optimized maps mashup, has announced a new iPhone-optimization service for websites looking to offer iPhone a convenient way to contact or find [...]

Motorola’s only got a few more product cycles to get it right or fold their cards and declare their handset business defunct. Time is running out, and the pressure is on for CEO Greg Brown to get things into high gear. Moto’s last stand in the handset business has been talked about as being an 8 [...]

T-Mobile’s 3G network has been a long time coming. After winning the 1700Mhz AWS spectrum that it needed to launch its own special flavor of 3G networks in the US, T-Mobile was forced by the US government to stand-by as bureaucratic agencies proceeded to vacate the spectrum. And, after initially launching their 3G network in [...]

Philips has rolled a new addition to their new Philips Xenium lineup. The Philips Xenium X600 is apparently intended for mobile phone customers looking for little more than a handset that they can use for days on end without needing a recharge, literally. The Xenium X600 boasts some of the longest battery life estimates that we’ve [...]

08/04/08 - Send IMs to your friends from your BlackBerry device.

08/05/08 - Calculate the tip at restaurants.

08/05/08 - Send text- and picture-based messages to your IM contacts through your Blackberry.

Launching the first Symbian S60 smartphone with an 8 megapixel camera (aka i8510 INNOV8) is obviously not enough for Samsung. The Korean giant wants to corner the rest of the market as well, hence they will be launching a new Symbian S60 smartphone called i7110. We’re not aware of the official launch day, but I [...]

A month ago, we reported the LG enV2 is coming to Telus as the KEYBO. That has happened recently and now heavy texters can grab the full QWERTY keyboard equipped device and extend their SMS addiction the way they’ve always wanted to. Aside from the ultra-useful keyboard, the KEYBO also sports a 2 megapixel [...]

Nothing too exciting here folks. Samsung’s budget yet quite nice looking clamshell, SGH-A237, is heading to AT&T portfolio. We don’t have the full specs at the moment, but it will probably have a quad-band GSM/EDGE radio on board, some camera, music player, and a Bluetooth support. At list two color options will be available — [...]

Nokia’s Files on Ovi is leaving the beta status behind. The service is free for anyone, allowing you to share documents, PDFs, music, photos and more between you PCs and a handset. However, there’s a paid feature called Anytime Files, using which you can backup certain portions of your hard drive in the cloud and access [...]

Russia’s news site Vedomosti has reported that Apple will begin selling iPhones legally in the country during 2009. Apparently, this is coming from Yevgeny Butman, Apple IMC Russia’s director in Moscow and something’s telling me there’s a merit in his words. According to market research, there are currently around 470,000 unlocked iPhones in use in Russia [...]

Samsung obviously wants to attract those people who like the iPhone, but don’t dig the idea of having to bind themselves to a carrier they don’t like, which happen to be Apple’s partner. That being said, we’ve just spotted what seems as the i900 Omnia in white. As you’re probably already aware, the device in question [...]

HTC Diamond Touch is a great device and we’re everything but surprised to see HTC saying the sales projections are on track. As a matter of fact, according to the Taiwanese handset maker’s CEO Peter Chou, the company will reach the one-million mark by mid-August. In a further statement, Chou confirmed HTC’s plans to ship 2 [...]

Apple will be launching the iPhone 3G in India, the Czech Republic, and Estonia on August 22nd. Read the full story here.

T-Mobile announces the launch of its 3G network in Las Vegas and also eludes to a new "all-in-one" data-centric device that will eventually take advantage of its 3G network. Read the full story here.

This morning Sprint announced its second quarter subscriber and profit figures, both of which continue to show that the company is in trouble. It also announced that it plans on issuing US$3 billion in preferred stock to raise capital. Read the full story here.

AT&T recently announced new international roaming data plans, along with international support for its AT&T Navigator GPS solution. Read the full story here.