After more than a year ago Verizon Wireless had released the Samsung Glyde SCH-U940, its successor Samsung Rogue U960 is said to be announced by August 15th this month. Using the latest Samsung TouchWiz 2.0 user interface, the Rogue has a sliding QWERTY keyboard and a 3 megapixel camera with LED flash. Other useful connector are placed at the side ... continued »

Samsung and Intrinsity jointly announced its new ARM Cortex-A8 processor architecture in 45 nanometer (nm) Low Power (LP), low leakage process technology. This Cortex-A8 implementation, code-named Hummingbird, delivers 2000DMIPS at 1GHz. The Hummingbird comes with 32KB each of data and instruction caches, an L2 Memory cache, the size of which can be customized, and an ARM NEON multi-media extension. Performance ... continued »

The worldwide mobile phone market recorded another quarter of year-over-year decline in the second quarter of 2009 (2Q09). According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, handset vendors shipped a total of 269.6 million units worldwide, down 10.8% from 302.2 million units in 2Q08. The second quarter results are an improvement from the 17.2% decrease seen during 1Q09, but ongoing ... continued »

AT&T and Samsung Mobile announced the upcoming availability of the Samsung Solstice, a compact candybar phone with full touch screen phone that provides users with an instant connection to social networking, messaging and multimedia features. The Samsung Solstice will be available and offered by AT&T in US beginning Aug. 2. continued »

Quickoffice today announced the latest update to its Quickoffice Premier 6 product for Nokia Symbian (S60 3.x and S60 5.0) devices. The company’s latest release delivers a complete S60 office suite by adding PowerPoint 2007 viewing capabilities to the already supported Word, Excel and PowerPoint file formats. In addition, the product now offers both editing and viewing of documents on the ... continued »

Comes from an unofficial HTC Mega windows mobile smartphone, all the current QVGA HTC smartphone users will be pleased to see some goodies extracted from the HTC Mega's ROM. These include a new Manila 2D version, new HTC's ezInput 2.1 keyboard and more to come. Though, you are better to screen through the forum threads in the xda-developer forum to see if ... continued »

LG today has officially revealed its next Chocolate phone LG BL40. The fourth handset of the Black Label Series boasts a 4.0-inch wide screen high-definition LCD with an 800 by 345 pixel resolution, enable 21:9 aspect ratio support for video viewing. The 4.0-inch display also features a Dual Screen UI that can efficiently display two different types of content simultaneously. continued »

T-Mobile USA and HTC today announced that it will start offering the HTC Touch Pro2 beginning Aug. 12. The HTC Touch Pro2 is powered by HTC's TouchFLO 3D interface, has a sliding QWERTY keyboard, 3.2 megapixel camera, bluetooth, WiFi and built in GPS. The device is ship with Windows Mobile 6.1, though, it is not sure if Windows Mobile 6.5 upgrade ... continued »

Famous for its extremely long standby mobile phone, mostly sold in China, the company is working on its first Android smartphone for China market. The new Philips V808 is reaching some of the retailers. It comes with a 3.2 inch touch screen, 320x 480 resolution, 3 megapixel camera and built in GPS / WiFi. continued »

Sprint Nextel and Virgin Mobile USA announced today that their boards of directors have approved a definitive agreement for Sprint to acquire Virgin Mobile USA for a total equity value of approximately $483 million, which includes the value of Sprint’s current 13.1% fully diluted ownership interest in Virgin Mobile USA. In addition, at closing Sprint will retire all of Virgin Mobile USA’s ... continued »