Samsung i740 to Be Available Starting August
	Samsung i740, one of the latest touchscreen smartphones to come from the South Korean manufacturer, has now a release date and a price. The handset first appeared on the Web about three weeks ago, but back then there weren't any details about its launch and pricing. Apparently, the new Samsung will first be available in Ukraine, starting the second half of August. Its retail price will be somewhere around 1950 Ukrainian ... [read more >>]
	23 July 2008, 12:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Fly E310 Attitude, New Touchscreen Handset for Russia
	Fly Mobile is not quite among the world's famous mobile phone manufacturers, but this doesn't stop the company from continuously announcing new handsets. The latest product to come from the European producer is named Fly E310 Attitude and it's a fashionable mid-end phone. The best features of Fly E310 Attitude include: a 2.4 inch TFT touchscreen (with 16 million colors and 240 x 320 pixels) that can be controll ... [read more >>]
	22 July 2008, 09:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

27.7 Million LG Phones Sold in the Second Quarter of 2008
	LG Electronics announced today its financial results for the second quarter of 2008, unveiling an excellent period for its mobile division. In Q2 2008, LG has shipped a total of 27.7 million handsets worldwide, surpassing Sony Ericsson (which only sold 24.4 handsets and registered ... [read more >>]
	21 July 2008, 09:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nokia N810 on the Cheap Side – Only $299
	Nokia's good-to-have-around N810 Internet Tablet, released in the fall of 2007, is now cheaper than ever, coming for a retail price of only $299. Although the new price is not (yet) featured on Nokia's official website (where the Internet Tablet is still offered for $439), the N810 can be bought for the attractive $299 price from ... [read more >>]
	21 July 2008, 07:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Samsung D980, New Dual-Sim Touchscreen Handset
	Staying true to its leading position in the mobile handset industry, Samsung has recently unveiled a new high-end touchscreen phone, named Samsung D980. This seems to be a slightly changed version of the F480 TouchWiz, which is already on sale across Europe and Asia, and comes shor ... [read more >>]
	21 July 2008, 05:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Velocity 103 Passes Its High-end Features Through FCC
	Velocity 103, a brand new Pocket PC coming from Velocity Mobile, has just been approved by the FCC and it should hit the US market in the next weeks (or months). Velocity 103 was first presented in April, during CTIA Wireless 2008, together with ... [read more >>]
	21 July 2008, 03:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Motorola VE75 to Touch(screen) China
	Motorola has recently unveiled a new touchscreen mobile phone targeted for the Chinese market: Motorola VE75. The handset comes after Moto has officially released the A1600 and A1800 Ming clamshells as well as the A810 candybar, all three of them being touchscreen ena ... [read more >>]
	18 July 2008, 12:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Neonode N2 Is Now Chinese-Friendly
	Neonode, the Sweden-based telecoms company, announced today that its fashionable Neonode N2 touchscreen mobile phone has received yet another set of enhancements, in addition to the firmware update released yesterday. From now on, the Neonode N2 will also feature a Chinese XT ... [read more >>]
	17 July 2008, 09:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Neonode N2 Improved with a Firmware Update
	Neonode, the Sweden-based company that manufactures and distributes the Neonode N2 touchscreen handset, has released today a firmware update for the N2, which brings a set of nice improvements. The new firmware update (version 2.1.552.2) can be downloaded for free from Neonode's website (found at this address ... [read more >>]
	16 July 2008, 11:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Samsung Omnia Gets an August Release and a $1,000 Retail Price
	Samsung Mobile announced yesterday the official release of its i900 Omnia Pocket PC in Germany, scheduled for the 6th of August. The new handset will be offered by all the German mobile operators: T-Mobile, Vodafone, the KPN-owned E-Plus and Telefónica's O2. [admark=1]The availability of Omnia in the first week of August is surely great news for German mobile users, but there's also a not-at-all great aspect, which relates ... [read more >>]
	15 July 2008, 06:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sony Ericsson G900 to Come in Blue Too
	Sony Ericsson G900, the latest touchscreen smartphone released by the Swedish-Japanese company, could be soon offered in a new color version. Currently available only in dark brown and dark red, the G900 was spotted in blue too. [admark=1]Appeared on the SEMC Blog, the new version of G900 is actual ... [read more >>]
	15 July 2008, 04:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

BlackBerry Thunder in Live QWERTY Images
	BlackBerry Thunder 9500 has just appeared in the first live images, which show the large touchscreen display of the device as well as its two QWERTY keyboards. You probably already know that Thunder is the only touchscreen smartphone that Research in Motion has developed until now, without officially presenting it yet. [admark=1]The first live images with the new BlackBerry were spotted on ... [read more >>]
	14 July 2008, 04:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

CDMA Touch Diamond Approved by FCC
	HTC Touch Diamond, one of the hottest Pocket PCs unveiled this year, has been approved by FCC in a CDMA version suited for the North American networks (850 / 1900 MHz). This means that ... [read more >>]
	11 July 2008, 03:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

iPhone: the Gaming Console
	The folks at touchArcade have put together this interesting article comparing the iPhone's gaming capabilities with those of dedicated gaming devices, such as Sony's PlayStation Portable and Nintendo's DS. By the looks of it, the iPhone clearly has some advantages. Of course, it all comes down to what customers want: a real gaming console, or just a really smart phone with fair gaming capabilities as well. Maybe the infor ... [read more >>]
	08 July 2008, 10:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

BlackBerry Thunder Real Images Unveiled
	BlackBerry Thunder, also known as BlackBerry 9500, the first full-touch handset to be made in Canada (by RIM), has now appeared in what are believed to be the first real images with it. The 9500 Thunder seems to be the most media-centered from all of RIM's devices. Spotted at & ... [read more >>]
	08 July 2008, 08:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

iPhone 3G Has a July 11 Competitor in Sharp SH706i
	After the 923SH clamshell, which will be released tomorrow in Japan via SoftBank, Sharp has unveiled yet another new and advanced handset with an Aquos display: the SH706i. Unlike the 923SH, Sharp SH706i will not see the light of the Japanese market thanks to SoftBank, as it& ... [read more >>]
	04 July 2008, 08:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Philips X800 in the Wild, Literally
	Philips Xenium X800, the very first full-touch handset to come under Philips' brand, was recently spotted in the wild, after the device was also seen on FCC's website, not too long ago. Although, in the world of gadgets, "in the wild" generally means just "in live p ... [read more >>]
	04 July 2008, 06:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Samsung Instinct Announced for Canada
	Initially believed to be released only in the US and only via Sprint, Samsung Instinct (model name SPH-M800) will in fact be available in Canada too, as the Canadian website of Samsung has added the elegant touchscreen phone to its "coming soon" section. This is major news for Canadian mobile us ... [read more >>]
	03 July 2008, 06:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New i740 Touchscreen Handset From Samsung
	After the high-end Omnia i900 Pocket PC, unveiled by Samsung less than one month ago, the largest South Korean handset manufacturer has come up with yet another Windows Mobile 6.1 handset, named Samsung i740. Although it's not presented in an official way, the i74 ... [read more >>]
	02 July 2008, 13:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

BlackBerry Thunder to Laugh at iPhone 3G
	RIM's first full-touch smartphone, the BlackBerry Thunder 9500, will apparently be a serious competitor for Apple's new iPhone 3G, as well as for all the other touchscreen mobile devices that might want to become popular this year. Accor ... [read more >>]
	02 July 2008, 11:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Motorola Blaze, Verizon's First Touchscreen Moto
	It seems that Motorola is going into the touchscreen direction with more and more of its handset. After the two Mings (A1600 and A1800) and the A810 – all three released in China – we have another Moto-made touchscreen phone, named Motorola Blaze. The Blaze was ... [read more >>]
	30 June 2008, 05:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

16GB Touchscreen Walkman Phone to Come from Sony Ericsson
	Word on the street (on the Web, actually) is that Sony Ericsson is preparing a new high-end touchscreen Walkman smartphone that will come with a huge internal memory of 16GB. This new handset should replace the W960, which was released at the end of 2007 as the follower of the old W950 – the first touchscreen Walkman smartphone. Except for the 16GB of internal memory, there are no other details about the new smartphone. Th ... [read more >>]
	27 June 2008, 08:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Samsung Instinct Is a Record-Selling Handset
	Samsung Instinct, released in the US only a week ago by Sprint, the third largest American mobile carrier, proves to be a smash-hit in terms of sales. More exactly, Sprint says that the new touchscreen device "has become the fastest-selling EVDO handset" in the carrier's history, although it doesn't mention an exact number of sales. According to Sprint, there is such a high demand for the Instinct that, in some re ... [read more >>]
	27 June 2008, 05:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

LG Dare Out Now, Defying iPhone 3G and Samsung Instinct
	LG Dare, the full-touch handset proudly announced by Verizon Wireless a few weeks ago, is now available for purchase from Verizon's official website. The new Dare is priced at $199 with a contract agreement for two years and at $249 with ... [read more >>]
	26 June 2008, 12:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AT&T to Release Samsung Omnia, Apple Might Lose Sales
	Apparently, AT&T will soon be offering the Samsung Omnia Pocket PC, a device that could be considered, by some, far better than Apple's iPhone 3G. I'm sure you already know that AT&T will also carry the new iPhone in the US, starting July 11, and now it seems that the largest North American operator has yet another killer-handset, Samsung Omnia. Omnia's arrival at AT&T is not official for the moment ... [read more >>]
	24 June 2008, 03:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Samsung Instinct Out Now, 21 Days Before the iPhone 3G
	As repeatedly announced starting April, Sprint has released today, June 20, its Samsung Instinct touchscreen handset, presented from the beginning not only as an iPhone competitor but also as a device that can easily outperform Apple's handset. Well, the Instinct is now available for purchase, priced at $129.99, so that everyone can try its capabilities. Of course, not "everyone" in the full meaning of the word, bu ... [read more >>]
	20 June 2008, 03:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Touchscreen iMac Anyone?
	Remember Christian Moore's open framework that enables true multitouch interaction in Mac OS X? This doesn't even come close to that and to pay $700 ... [read more >>]
	18 June 2008, 17:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Samsung Instinct Priced at $129.99, Out in Two Days
	Sprint's mega-hot touchscreen phone, the "iPhone killer" and award-wining Samsung Instinct, will have a price tag lower than the one of Apple's iPhone 3G. The Instinct will cost $129.99, after a $100 mail-in rebate and the signing of a contract agreement with Sprint for two years. This price is 70 bucks lower than the one initially rumored, namely $199.99, so I guess Sprint's customers should be pr ... [read more >>]
	18 June 2008, 11:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Samsung Omnia is DivX Certified, Hits the Market This Week
	Samsung Omnia, also known as Samsung SGH-i900, the latest high-end touchscreen handset unveiled by the South Korean company, is now DivX certified. This makes Omnia the first Windows Mobile handset to get DivX certification (aside from the fact that it's the fourth DivX-certified phone from Samsung). Younghee Lee, Vice President of Marketing for Samsung's Telecommunication Business, said in a press release, " ... [read more >>]
	17 June 2008, 11:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nokia's First Touchscreen Phone Ready to Hit the Market
	Nokia's first full touchscreen phone, the 5800 (initially leaked as Nokia Tube), will be pretty soon released on the European market, under the name of Nokia XpressMusic 5800. The new handset prepared by the Finish company for all the touchscreen lovers o ... [read more >>]
	17 June 2008, 10:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

iPhone 3G Officially Hits 23 Countries on July 11
	After yesterday's official presentation of the second-generation iPhone, named "iPhone 3G", Apple also announced that its new handset would be available starting July 11, in no less than 23 markets around the world. Also, iPhone 3G will be released by th ... [read more >>]
	10 June 2008, 05:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nokia N85, N79 and 5800 Tube Leaked
	While other manufacturers concentrate all their "mobile powers" to create a single mobile device (I'm talking about Apple and its iPhone 3G), Nokia keeps on doing what it does best and it’s preparing to release two new Nseries handsets, plus the already ... [read more >>]
	10 June 2008, 03:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

BlackBerry Thunder – First Image Leaked
	After announcing the high-end BlackBerry Bold 9000 smartphone, RIM is preparing for an even greater unveiling and that is BlackBerry Thunder 9500, the first full-touchscreen handset produced by the Canadian company. The first real image with BlackBerry Thunder appeared at Boy G ... [read more >>]
	09 June 2008, 05:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Samsung i900 Omnia Fully Unveiled
	Samsung i900, which, by the looks of things, seems to be one of the nicest Pocket PCs to hit the market this year, was fully unveiled by Samsung and it also got a new name: Samsung i900 Omnia. The handset is said to hit the market this month, but in Europe it will only be available starting July. The new Pocket PC runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, measures only 112 x 56.9 x 12.5 millimeters and has an elegant overa ... [read more >>]
	09 June 2008, 03:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

LG Vantage Available Now in Canada
	LG Vantage 830 is now available for purchase in Canada, offered by Bell Mobility, the second largest operator in the North American country. News about the release of Vantage via Bell spread about a month ago, when a May 16 date was rumored, but the handsets only got to be ... [read more >>]
	07 June 2008, 04:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Neon 7, the Mini Touchscreen Handset
	Today, people usually want touchscreen phones with large displays and a wide range of features, but there might be some users who want touchscreen phones with small displays too. Well, for the latter, a new and tiny handset has recently made its way on the market. Named "Latte Neon 7", the device we're talking about measures 95 x 42 x 11 millimeters and comes with what is probably the smallest touchscreen display t ... [read more >>]
	06 June 2008, 13:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

'Projected Capacitance Touch Panel' for the Upcoming iPhone
	The first pictures and diagrams of a new touchscreen display for Apple's iPhone have surfaced on the web. A Taiwanese company going by the name of Host Optical claims these are the touch-screens being used in "an upcoming iPhone," iLounge reports. ... [read more >>]
	06 June 2008, 08:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sprint's Instinct Showcased in New Videos
	With the 3G iPhone knocking on the gates of the global mobile market, Sprint is getting ready to roll-out the Samsung Instinct, a full-touchscreen phone described by Sprint to be a fierce competitor for Apple's handset. Actually, Sprint even says its Ins ... [read more >>]
	06 June 2008, 06:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

HTC Touch Pro Going XDA on O2
	HTC Touch Pro, the "big brother" of HTC Touch Diamond, will be soon offered by O2 Germany to its subscribers, as part of the carrier's own-branded XDA series of Pocket PCs and smartphones. Officially presented only a few days ago and previously known as HT ... [read more >>]
	06 June 2008, 05:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Apple's iPhone to Take a Big Bite of Nintendo's Marketshare
	Forbes has initiated this interesting debate on whether Apple's iPhone will kick Nintendo's DS off the market before its time. The official website notes that, with the upcoming App Store out and the new software available for download at the touch of a button, Nintendo's handset doesn't have much of a chance at improving its winning streak. Not that Nintendo hasn't had time to reach its self-imposed landmarks w ... [read more >>]
	05 June 2008, 17:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intuit – Dual Touchscreen Multimedia Phone Concept
	Intuit is the name of a new and unique mobile phone concept that proposes not one, but two full touchscreen displays packed into a multimedia-center device. Before presenting the new concept, we must say that it was conceived by Eddie Goh, who has also designed the E-Ten Glofiish X800 Pocket PC that was released on the global market back in November 2007, being very well received by consumers mainly because of its nice look. ... [read more >>]
	05 June 2008, 12:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Exquisite Samsung i900 Appears Again
	Samsung i900, of which we've heard a lot of nice things until now, appeared again on the Web, this time in clear and crisp photos, which allow us to say that the handset is really a good looker. Although its design doesn't have anything out of the ordinary, its overall aspect is a very elegant one and we assume many users will see in i900 one of the best mobile devices of 2008. This is not only due to the aspect of the device, bu ... [read more >>]
	04 June 2008, 08:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Motorola A1800 to Conquer China
	Motorola just announced the upcoming availability of its latest MotoMing mobile phone, the A1800, a weird-looking PDA-like clamshell phone that resembles the A1200 and A1600 models. The new Moto A1800 will apparently be available only in China, via China Unicom, the second l ... [read more >>]
	04 June 2008, 05:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Philips X800 in Live Images
	The very first full-touchscreen handset to bear the Philips name, Philips X800, has been recently approved by the FCC (Federal Communications Commission), which unveiled more details about the new device. Thanks to the FCC, we now also have the first live i ... [read more >>]
	31 May 2008, 06:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Polarbit to Launch Raging Thunder through the App Store
	Videos of the Raging Thunder racing game have been floating around YouTube for quite a while. Developer Polarbit has recently confirmed its plans to fully port the title to the iPhone, as it is the platform that best suits Raging Thunder's control scheme. Polarbit hopes to launch the game officially, through the upcoming App Store, but also wishes to address the jailbreak community, to allow as many iPhone owners as possible to become ... [read more >>]
	30 May 2008, 03:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

HTC Touch Diamond on Sale Now
	The official released date of the Touch Diamond was set by HTC for June, but the elegant Pocket PC is available as of now, via several online mobile retailers. Its price, free of any contract, ranges from almost $800 to about $900, as expected. The device can be found, for example, at Welectronics or & ... [read more >>]
	28 May 2008, 03:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sony Ericsson G702 Video Leaked
	There's an abundance of news related to Sony Ericsson these days and the latest concerns the G702 handset, also known as Sony Ericsson BeiBei. Details about BeiBei / G702 first surfaced in April and now the official video teaser with the phone appeared, thanks to the Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog ... [read more >>]
	27 May 2008, 10:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sony Ericsson G900 and G700 Available
	Sony Ericsson seems to be releasing its latest handsets without officially announcing their availability. This was the case with W760 as well as with the ... [read more >>]
	27 May 2008, 05:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

HTC Touch Diamond the Indian Way
	HTC Touch Diamond, one of the hottest full-touchscreen handsets to be launched this year, will soon be released in India, via Airtel, the largest mobile operator in the country. Officially presented to the world on the 6th of May, in London, HTC Touch Diamond is a stylish smartphone that combines an exclusive design and advanced features with the latest 3D ... [read more >>]
	23 May 2008, 06:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Samsung F480 TouchWiz Hits Europe
	Samsung announced today the upcoming European release of its latest high-end touchscreen handset, the F480 TouchWiz. The phone will be available starting June, in most European countries, coming with a major advertising campaign. The F480 was first presented in ... [read more >>]
	22 May 2008, 05:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia