Vonage Mobile, now available for T-Mobile and AT&T Android smartphones, offers users cheap international calling rates as well as free U.S. domestic calling over Wi-Fi. That can free up a lot of otherwise used calling plan minutes. We check it out to see how it performs
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Free domestic Wi-Fi VoIP calling with Vonage Mobile for Android (and cheap international calls, too!)
Apple CEO and avid turtle neck wearer Steve Jobs revealed the latest iteration of the iPhone OS – 4.0 – which brings some interesting new features to iPhone users. Whilst fanboys from each side will carry on debating what this means to them one way or another, there is one clear fact, fragmentation has come to the Apple-sphere
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iPhone OS 4.0 Revealed, Frags The Scene
We’ve got an in-depth review of the new HTC Desire Android smartphone, a device that is basically a Google Nexus One with HTC’s Sense UI enhancements. Read on to find out if the Desire’s AMOLED display and 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor inspire lust or loathing. Read the full story here.
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HTC Desire Android smartphone review – a Nexus One with HTC Sense
Apple’s Announcement of the iPhone OS 4.0 Apple has unveiled its new iPhone OS 4 with a ton of new features including a ‘smart’ multitasking, iBooks and an ad networks – that’s only the highlights. Multitasking To limit battery draining by apps running in the background, like it is happening with Android phones, Apple has limited the number of operating system (OS) services that apps can access in the background to seven: Audio, VoIP, Location, Push Notifications, Local Notifications, Task Completion, Fast App Switching.
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Apple’s Announcement of the iPhone OS 4.0
SWAP Nova Keychain Phone While most folks out there are scrambling to get the latest high-tech phone, some folks just want a small phone that’s easy to carry around, and that phone could just be the SWAP Nova Keychain Phone . Said phone is a 2G phone, smaller than a box of matches.
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SWAP Nova Keychain Phone
Samsung Moment 2 with Sprint branding and TouchWiz 3.0 peeks out The Samsung Moment is due to get Android 2.1 sometime in the near future , but it looks like it’s also going to get a bit of a refresh — check out this pic of a Sprint-branded Moment 2 that’s said to have TouchWiz 3.0 on top of Android 2.1. Unfortunately, the same source says this thing doesn’t have Sammy’s new Super AMOLED screen , so we’d assume it doesn’t have that new faster processor from the Galaxy S either — all of which means the HTC EVO 4G is still really the Sprint device to wait for. But hey, maybe you love TouchWiz? Is that a thing
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Samsung Moment 2 with Sprint branding and TouchWiz 3.0 peeks out
Philips X312 Has One Month Stand-By Time But Not Much Else What, you didn’t know Philips made phones? We imagine that you’re probably not the only one (there’s a few here in the office, too), and we don’t blame you. They don’t offer much in the form of ‘cool features,’ and they’re only available in two markets: Asia and Russia
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Philips X312 Has One Month Stand-By Time But Not Much Else
Microsoft’s My Phone is a great free service for backing up your phone, and now it’s just gotten better. This week I’ll also point you to more videos and news about Windows Phone 7 and T-Mobile’s HD2, as well as news about a couple new devices
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Microsoft Updates “My Phone” Service; Windows Phone 7 and HD2 Videos
Sony Ericsson sent us an Xperia X10 Android smartphone for review. While we initially expected a retail-ready device, we ended up getting a pre-production unit that kept us from doing a normal review. But after 2+ weeks with the phone, we certainly have some strong opinions on it.
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An in-depth look at a pre-production Sony Ericsson Xperia X10
Rockchip’s prototype RK2808-powered Android smartphone spotted… finally! The Ramos W7 Android-powered MID has come to pass, but for the last year one question’s remained: where is that RK2808-based handset we were promised?
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Rockchip’s prototype RK2808-powered Android smartphone spotted… finally!
Samsung Monte Lands in India This isn’t the first time the Samsung Monte (S5620) has graced these pages, and we’ve got to admit: we’re glad to see it back. Perhaps not so much to announce that it’s heading all the way over to India, but if it’s going anywhere, that’s not a bad place at all. Especially not when you consider how cheap the device is going to be, compared with the nice set of features the handset offers. We’re sure that some folks in that neck of the woods may wish to see something a bit different , but we promise, this isn’t a bad phone at all. But it’s more than obvious that Samsung’s not stopping their touchscreen phone onslaught any time soon
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Samsung Monte Lands in India
Motorola Backflip Heading To Germany Folks over in Germany who are looking out for a new Android-powered phone will be happy to hear that Motorola has officially announced that the Motorola Backflip will be arriving in Germany this month. The Motorola Backflip is currently listed on Amazon.de for EUR439
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Motorola Backflip Heading To Germany
The iPad is available since yesterday morning. Beside our IT&T review there were already reviews published by other blogs. Here’s a roundup of the review verdicts, with links to the originals: PC Magazine “Is the iPad a perfect product? No
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iPad Review: Roundup of Available iPad Reviews
The Casio G’zOne Brigade is the first ruggedized cell phone on Verizon Wireless to offer a full QWERTY keyboard for messaging. The Brigade might feel like a brick, but it offers a solid feature set and good push-to-talk capabilities. Todd tests it out for us in this review. Read the full story here.
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Casio G’zOne Brigade for Verizon review – QWERTY messaging for tough conditions
Samsung Galaxy S Rumored to Get Pro Label, Adds a Physical QWERTY Keyboard What’s better than a crazy, obvious-looking mock-up of a phone? A radical, completely unfounded rumor to go along with it, of course! That’s exactly what we have here, with this image of the supposed Samsung Galaxy S Pro floating around.
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Samsung Galaxy S Rumored to Get Pro Label, Adds a Physical QWERTY Keyboard
The Nokia 5230 Nuron is a version of the original 5230 touchscreen smartphone built for T-Mobile USA. It has a low purchase price, offers good features, and comes in a nicely designed package. But is it’s older S60 UI up to the task? Read more in our review. Read the full story here
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Review of T-Mobile’s new Nokia 5230 Nuron S60 touchscreen smartphone
The new Motorola CLIQ XT for T-Mobile USA, known as the QUENCH in other markets, is an Android-powered smartphone in a slim, attractive form factor that features the MOTOBLUR social networking system. Learn all about it in Todd’s full review. Read the full story here.
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T-Mobile’s Android-powered Motorola CLIQ XT with MOTOBLUR review
Russell has put together a review and video of the sleek aluminum-bodied Android 2.1 smartphone known as the HTC Legend for your drooling pleasure. With the latest Sense UI and a AMOLED touchscreen, the Legend is almost too hot to touch. Learn all about it in this review. Read the full story here.
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Review of HTC’s Legend, a Hero on a metal-rich diet
At MIX10 today, Microsoft unveiled the long awaited developer platform for the upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series devices. Windows Phone 7 Series was announced by Steve Ballmer at Mobile World Congress last month with devices to be available for sale by holiday 2010. Mobile development for Windows Phone 7 will take advantage of both Silverlight 4 (the full version not a watered down “Lite” version) and the XNA Framework for games that is used both on the Zune,Windows (Vista and 7) and Xbox 360 Platform. This will provide a rich environment for both internet based applications and game development. As expected, Windows Phone 7 will use The Marketplace to deliver applications to the device and providing developers with a 70% revenue share for applications sold
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Windows Phone7 Series Development Announced at MIX 2010
The Motorola BACKFLIP, being the first Android smartphone for AT&T, has a lot riding on it. Read our review to see if its atypical QWERTY form factor and MOTOBLUR social networking experience add up to a solid smartphone experience or not. Read the full story here.
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Review of Motorola’s unique BACKFLIP Android smartphone for AT&T
The LG Lotus Elite is an interesting looking full-QWERTY clamshell messaging feature phone that adds a touchscreen to the design of the original Lotus for Sprint. Todd tests it out for us and shares his thought in this hands-on review. Read the full story here.
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Review of LG’s Lotus Elite QWERTY messaging phone for Sprint