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Fossil has been toying with Bluetooth watches for a couple of years. Their latest concept will connect to your precious smartphone and give you tidbits that are supposed to stop you from digging into your…

If you thought the Dell Mini 5 (5-inch screen) was big for a phone, you haven’t seen the Huawei SmaKit S7 (7-inch screen)! In all due fairness, the device is considered a MID with 3G voice capabilities, and with Bluetooth you’ll probably be using a headset to talk more often than not. Either way, it [...]

The Samsung Wave is the first phone to rock Samsung’s new mobile operating system, Bada, which aims to make feature phones more app-friendly. We first heard the rumbles of the approaching tsunami after Samsung flaunted the Wave on a billboard outside Mobile World Congress on Friday. The Wave’s frothy crest is a 84mm (3.3-inch) touchscreen [...]

By creating the S-Class UI 3D Widget, LG has expanded customers’ usual notion of “mobile user interface” into something much more fundamental: “user experience around YOU”. The widget not only allows users to experience LG’s ambitious S-Class UI even while away from their mobile phones but also presents non-LG-phone-owners to pre-experience and try out the [...]

As the cell phones continue getting sleeker, smarter, and more versatile, it is increasingly the installed software the enables us to distinguish on another. LG’s latest touchscreen Arena KM9000 with an extra-whizzy user interface in the form of a three dimensional cube. You can call up your contacts and access widgets and create a customizable [...]

Acer isn’t yet an official entrant into the smartphone market and already it’s having the same problems keeping secrets as established players Apple and Palm. On Wednesday, a smartphone called the Acer DX900 popped up for preorder on the Web site of UK retailer Clove Technology.

Times are tough, so why not consider the uber cheap Nokia 2700? Image: Nokia. With much of current mobile phone focus centred on highly desirable smartphones such as Apple’s iPhone and RIM’s BlackBerry line, you’d think other manufacturers would bow to the pressures of the economic downturn and hold back more ‘conventional’ products. Evidently Nokia [...]