Nokia Serves North American X6 up for Pre-order: $455 Unlocked

Nokia’s downright seductive X6 just started shipping to those across the pond, and shortly after the company announced a Comes Without Music edition, along comes this: a NAM version for those who call North America home, sweet home. The pre-order page (which is live this very moment, by the way) makes no mention of a [...]

DIY Smartphone Car Dock: 10 Minutes, $2, And Worthy of A MacGyver Sense Of Accomplishment

The problem: you need a hands-free option for safely espying your smartphone while behind the wheel of a moving vehicle.
Your equipment: Ahesive-backed craft foam, heavy duty plastic coated wiring, assorted PVC tubes and pieces. (Total value: approximately $2.) A “goofy vacant space” in the car dash for placement.
Target time is 10 minutes or less. Hit [...]

Palm Pre Plus Shows Off Multitasking Upgrade With 50 Simultaneous Apps (video)

Yea, you read that right — fifty apps loaded side by side by freaking side on the Pre Plus, and the thing just kept on ticking. The chaps over at Pre Central decided to test out specifically how much of an improvement the doubling of RAM and storage in the new handset delivered, and they [...]

Sony Ericsson Vivaz Shows Up in Multicolored Dutch Hands-on (Update: video!)

The former Kurara caterpillar has now sprouted into a Vivaz butterfly, and what do you know, all its lustrous color options have already been handled and explored by Dutch site All About Phones. We’re told that early leaks and spy shots did a disservice to the handsome styling of the handset, which borrows some design [...]

Quanta Working on 3.5-inch Smartbook-as-phone, Hates our Thumbs

Without pictures or firm form factor details, it’s hard to tell exactly what Quanta is driving at here (or who it’s driving at it for), but the concept of a “computer in an iPhone form factor,” as Quanta Chairman Barry Lam so tactfully puts it, doesn’t fill us with much hope for usability. At least [...]

Motorola Launching 20-30 Android Phones in 2010

Some interesting tidbits came out of Motorola’s DEXT launch in Singapore today — CNET Asia had a chance to sit down with Moto’s Asia Pacific VP Spiro Nikolakopoulos, who said that the company would launch between 20 to 30 Android phones globally in 2010. Spiro also said that not every phone would make it to [...]

Sony Ericsson Xperia X2a Appears on US Site Screaming ‘I’m Coming!’

Whoa! After two months of delay Sony Ericsson’s finally done something with the Xperia X2 – giving it an extra ‘a’ (for North America) instead of pushing it out to us mere mortals. Mind you, the number of times we’ve seen this thing — even as a KIRF – may fool you into thinking it’s [...]

RIM’s BlackBerry Tour2 9650 Gets The Hands-on Treatment

There’s practically zero doubt remaining that RIM has a next-generation Tour in the works, but if you’re one of those tin foil hat wearers, you’ll be glad to know that at least one of these things really, truly exists. Boy Genius just got his paws around the Tour2 9650 (shown left), and aside from the [...]

San Francisco Considers Displaying Phone Radiation Levels Next To Price Tag

If the San Francisco Department of the Environment gets its way, starting as soon as next month Bay Area residents might start noticing the radiation levels of cellphones displayed prominently next to their respective price at retail outlets. This is, of course, despite no definitive research that the handsets cause harm and the FCC’s insistence [...]

Verizon Samsung Omnia II Impressions

When the Omnia II first appeared on our radar, two things caught our attention: TouchWiz 2.0 and Windows Mobile 6.5. To be honest, neither of these items really piqued our interest: we knew what to expect from WinMo and had serious reservations about Samsung’s latest and greatest UI. That said, we were more than willing [...]