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Gigabyte outs four dual-SIM Ice Cream Sandwich phones at Computex
While Gigabyte was grabbing headlines at Computex with its world’s lightest Ultrabook, the Taiwanese firm was also sneaking out a gaggle of new phones. Four new models, in fact, all of them Android...
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Kyocera Rise ascends to heights of FCC acceptance
Kyocera and the FCC have become buddies lately. A couple weeks ago the waterproof Hydro got the go-ahead for United States use, and today we witnessed its brother, the QWERTY slider known as the Rise,...
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Samsung Galaxy S III coming to China on June 9th, all ‘big three’ carriers...
When Sammy said it was taking the Galaxy S III around the world, it really, really meant it. Having already launched in the UK, and with the US soon to follow, Samsung’s newest flagship is now ready...
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Samsung Galaxy Mini 2 available now in the UK for tiny hands and the people...
A Mini 2 to migrate you (okay, your Mum) from dumb to smart? That’s just what Samsung intends to do as it makes the 3.27-inch Galaxy phone available across the UK this week. The wee Gingerbread...
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Sprint pulls iDEN handsets from retail, continues to sunset legacy Nextel...
With only one year to go before iDEN bites the big one, Sprint’s making sure subscribers steer clear of devices that run on the legacy service. The aging tech, famous for its walkie talkie-like...
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Haier introduces Zing, a waterproof smartphone with Alibaba’s Aliyun OS
Zing is right, because you probably didn’t see this one coming. Haier, the Chinese consumer electronics company best known for air conditioners, refrigerators, and to a lesser extent, its home theater...
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HTC One V reaching Telus on June 8th, completes Canadian trifecta
HTC’s One V is invading Canada en masse, having just slipped into Bell and Koodo stores in the past few days. Internal documents slipped out to MobileSyrup would have Telus completing an unintentional...
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Consumer Cellular axes activation fees, retirees rejoice
Now here’s a trend we can really get behind. Consumer Cellular, the “exclusive wireless provider for AARP members” (and a company that caters to the 50+ crowd), has announce that it will no longer be...
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Neon Genesis Evangelion SH-06D limited edition Android phone arrives June...
Sharp’s heavily customized NERV Edition SH-06D phone finally has preorder and release date info on Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo, and Neon Genesis Evangelion fanboys will want to get there early. It...
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Dropbox for Android adds support for Korean language, ICS-only video...
You can’t deny Dropbox has been doing a pretty decent job of handing out constant updates to Android users since its beginnings on the platform, and, well, today’s no exception. This time the cloud...
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LG starts Optimus LTE Ice Cream Sandwich rollout on two Korean carriers
LG said it would start delivering Android 4.0 upgrades to its Optimus LTE (SU640) phones this month (as part of a wider upgrade plan) and now it has officially begun. Assuming you’re a Korean customer...
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Samsung ChatON messaging app comes to Windows Phone, cross-platform party...
Continuing to (perhaps unintentionally) kick SMS messaging to the curb, Samsung’s taken another, admittedly smaller, chunk of the smartphone crowd, announcing its ChatON messaging app for Windows...
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Bloomberg: Apple to offer Baidu search to Chinese iPhone users
Apple is reportedly lining up Baidu to join the search engines available on iOS devices when the sixth iteration of the operating system is detailed next week. Baidu serves around 80 percent of...
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HTC Desire V makes its European debut with dual-SIM capabilities, keeps your...
Whether you travel a lot, have to deal with spotty coverage or straight up lead a double life, HTC has a new dual-SIM smartphone for you with the Desire V. The handset is a first of its kind from the...
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T-Mobile 1,900MHz 3G lights up Moscone West in time for WWDC, carrier swears...
T-Mobile may be planning to deploy 1,900MHz HSPA+ across the whole of its network, but it sure has a knack for being in the right place at the right time. The carrier has confirmed that it just...
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Sony keeps Xperia upgrade train rolling, brings ICS to Mini Pro
Software update sagas typically center around carriers and OEMs failing to deliver to users in a timely manner — or, even at all. Not so with Sony, which continues to set itself apart from the mobile...
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Sprint’s Palm C40: the Pre 2 that never made it
Take a look through the trousers of time at what might have been; a Palm Pre 2 on Sprint. WebOSNation managed to grab the very rare prototype from a Palm employee and it fortunately worked on the Now...
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Tiered system reportedly on its way to Sprint’s Total Equipment Protection plans
We’ll likely never know what’s driving this purported move, but we can safely imagine it has something to do with the cost of high-end devices like that Galaxy Nexus or HTC EVO 4G LTE. Either way, a...
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Huawei Activa 4G gets your 4G LTE fix on MetroPCS for $149 contract-free
MetroPCS is known for offering 4G LTE smartphones on the cheap, but it’s going for a record today. The Activa 4G isn’t just Huawei’s first LTE smartphone in the US, it’s temporarily the least...
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Samsung Galaxy S III on SK Telecom mixes 2GB of RAM and quad-core, importers...
There’s a Galaxy S III with a quad-core chip, and there’s a Galaxy S III with 2GB of RAM. Never the twain shall meet? They reportedly will at SK Telecom: a comparison sheet leaked to Phone Arena has...
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