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  HTC has announced a new Windows Phone that blows every other phone available in the market, at least in terms of camera. Dubbed as Titan II, the phone will arrive on AT&T supporting its 4G LTE network. In addition to the fast speeds, the Titan II comes with a whopping 16 megapixel camera sensor [...]

The successor to the Lumia 800, Nokia at CES 2012 announced the Lumia 900 for the AT&T’s 4G LTE network . The Lumia 900 will come in cyan and matte black colour featuring a large 4.3in AMOLED ClearBlack display. The phone has a massive power unit of 1830mAh that will give you good usage time [...]

  Huawei at CES 2012 unveiled their slimmest smartphone – Ascend P1 S. The Ascend P1 S is in fact, one of the slimmest phones in the world that measures just 6.68mm in thickness. Ascend P1 S comes with a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED display that supports a resolution of 960×540 pixels and integrates Gorilla Glass [...]

  Samsung has unraveled an enhanced version of its bestselling mid-range phone – Galaxy Ace. Dubbed as Galaxy Ace Plus the phone is tad different in looks as well as specs from the original version. The new phone adopts a smoother exterior as compared to Galaxy Ace’s textured back and features Android 2.3 OS, 1GHz [...]

  Those apprehensive about Samsung’s phone / tablet combo device should take a look at the figure released by Samsung today. They’ve shipped over a million Galaxy Note units to distributors, resellers etc and that too in under two months. Although Galaxy Note was well received in most countries, major demand was in countries like [...]

  LG is the latest company to confirm Ice Cream Sandwich update for its devices. Users using devices like LG Optimus LTE, Prada phone by LG 3.0, Optimus 2X, Optimus Sol, my Touch Q and the Eclipse will start receiving the latest Android OS from second quarter of next year. For tad older devices like [...]

  HTC has announced Explorer, an entry-level Android smartphone for the Indian market. Explorer’s claim to fame is the inclusion of full support for Hindi and Tamil languages which allows users to read and write both Indian languages. HTC reckons India as “one of the fastest growing global smartphone markets with a rich culture and [...]

  Intel’s Medfield-based smartphone and tablets seem to be ready for the competitive mobile market as Intel gave some hands-on time to MIT Technology Review. Intel developed a reference design smartphone and tablet running Android OS, which the MIT praised for its performance. Medfield is the newest chip in the Atom line and unlike previous [...]

  Nexus S users waiting for an OTA notification from Google for the Android 4.0 update will have to wait a little longer. Google’s exec on the Google’s support forum confirmed yesterday that they’ve halted the over-the-air Ice Cream Sandwich update for Nexus S users. Google pulled the update due to an apparent battery drain [...]

  Listen up Samsung Galaxy users – big news just arrived from the Korean giant. They’ve announced the tentative timeframe to release Ice Cream Sandwich update aka Android 4.0 OS for their existing range of Galaxy devices. Galaxy S II and Galaxy Nexus will be the first devices to get the Android 4.0 update sometime [...]

  Nokia has something interesting to show for the US market and it seems Consumer Electronics Show will be the platform for the unveiling. Nokia has started sending out invites for a press event scheduled on January 9 at 3PM PST. The press conference will be about the latest Windows Phone for the US market, [...]

  Google over the weekend pushed over the much awaited Ice Cream Sandwich update for Nexus S smartphone. Its an OTA update, which means users can wait for a notification from Google or just download this 128MB zip file to manually flash their I9020 or I9023 model. The 4.0.3 update is said to be an [...]

  Handing out Ice Cream Sandwich ROMs for devices seems to be the newest trend for phone manufacturers. After Huawei released a demo code for their Honor phone, Sony Ericsson has released the Ice Cream Sandwich ROM for Xperia arc S, Xperia neo V and Xperia ray. The ROMs are still in alpha which means [...]

  LG announced its weirdly named smartphone – PRADA by LG 3.0 at an event yesterday in London. Developed in conjunction with the fashion label PRADA, the phone’s PRADA-ness comes from the glossy touchscreen display on the front, signature Saffiano pattern on the back and Floating Mass Technology that optically enhances the thinness of the [...]

  Without much fanfare, Verizon has announced the sales of Google’s first Android 4.0 phone – Galaxy Nexus. Interested consumers can pick the device from the online or a retail Verizon store for $299.99 on a two-year contract. The Galaxy Nexus on Verizon is the same as the international version except for a few changes [...]