The iPhone once again leads Consumer Reports’ smartphone ratings, beating competing products such as the Palm Pre and BlackBerry Storm. The organization considered Apple’s new 3GS handset to lead in categories such as battery life, multimedia, navigation and Internet browsing, while integrating a superior display.
Although the iPhone took the top rank and showed strengths in [...]

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Sprint recently began offering two new feature phones for sale. Shared features include Sprint’s OneClick user interface, 2 megapixel cameras with video capture, stereo Bluetooth, GPS for navigation, and support for microSD cards.

LG LX370: This simple slider can access many of Sprint’s services and costs $100 after rebate with new agreement.
Exclaim: This dual slider has [...]

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Today U.S. Cellular announced addition of the Axle, a simple flip phone from Samsung, to its line-up of phones. The Axle has a VGA camera, Bluetooth, speakerphone and access to U.S. Cellular’s easyedge mobile internet services. The Axle will be available starting Friday, June 19, via U.S. Cellular’s web site. It will cost $50 after [...]

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Samsung today announced the Omnia II, including a version for Verizon Wireless. The Omnia II is a Windows Mobile smartphone (upgradeable to version 6.5) and features an AMOLED display with WVGA resolution. Other features include a 5-megapixel auto-focus camera and 3.5mm headphone jack. Pricing and launch date for the Verizon version have yet to be [...]

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Today Samsung announced a solar-powered mobile phone called the E1107 Crest Solar. The E1107 is able to charge the battery via the sun, and can provide 5 to 10 minutes of talk time for every hour it charges. The entire back of the phone is covered the with the solar panel necessary to collect the [...]

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Today Samsung announced a new phone touting a 12 megapixel camera. The Pixon12 features a full 3.1-inch AMOLED touch display and advanced camera features such as a dedicated camera power button, touch-based autofocus, fast shutter speeds, instant scene-changing modes, Xenon flash and 28mm wide angle lens. Photos can be sorted by by tags, file names, [...]

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ABI’s Kevin Burden has stepped forward to count down the market’s Tier 2 cell phone players according to market share. Starting at No. 11 and counting up to No. 6, Burden discusses the sales strategies that have dropped these companies among the world’s top cell phone manufacturers.

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We told you a while ago that Samsung B7300 Windows Mobile touchscreen handset is on the way.
But, except for the good looks, we didn’t know very much about it then. Well, today we learned the key specs of Samsung B7300 and they are nothing much to write about.
The best thing we can [...]

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Today Samsung and AT&T announced the Jack, successor to the BlackJack series of Windows Mobile devices. The Jack is a bar-style phone with full QWERTY keyboard, 3.2 megapixel camera with video capture, Wi-Fi, GPS and 3G. It has a microSD slot and supports cards up to 16GB. The Jack will run Windows Mobile Smartphone Edition [...]

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Elderly people have never constituted the most important market to manufacturers or networks, which is a shame given that recent statistics put the number of over 65’s in the UK without a mobile phone at around 5 million. There have been a handful of products in the past to address the needs of this market, [...]

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Today Samsung and Verizon Wireless announced the Alias 2. The Alias 2 (U750) is a second take on the original messaging phone that brings with it a major revision to the QWERTY keyboard. It retains the dual-hinge, but uses e-ink for the keyboard rather than traditional buttons. When the Alias 2 is opened like a [...]

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Today Samsung and AT&T announced the availability of the Samsung Magnet, which was first announced in March. The Magnet is a bar-style QWERTY messaging phone with quad-band GSM/EDGE radios. It comes with a VGA camera, Bluetooth, one-touch access to messaging features, and support for Java applications. The Magnet is available online and via select retailers [...]

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Thanks to a leaked AT&T rebate sheet, we now have the confirmation that the largest North American GSM carrier will release the following phones: Motorola QA1 Karma, Sony Ericsson C905a and Samsung Jack i637.
Appeared over at BGR, the rebate sheet doesn’t disclose the exact release dates of said phones, but we know they should come to AT&T between May [...]

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Samsung and MetroPCS today announced the Tint R420, a basic clamshell phone with user-changeable front and back covers. Other features include ChatLINK push-to-talk, Bluetooth, camera, color outer display, and GPS navigation. With tri-band CDMA, the Tint supports the AWS CDMA networks in MetroPCS’ newest covered cities. The Tint is available now in select locations for [...]

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Less than two weeks after the early-look Android 1.5 SDK was launched, the Android Dev Team has now unleashed the Android 1.5 SDK, release 1.
Also known as Cupcake, the Android 1.5 SDK can be downloaded from here.
Of course, since the SDK is targeted at developers, simple Android users are still not able to upgrade their smartphones [...]

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