As some of you will certainly remember, we've covered a while back the appearance of a mysterious Windows Phone 7 handset by Asus, and it seems that the device in question is well on its way to the market, since it appeared online yet again, this time fully featured within a video presentation. So, while back in early August we were talking about a simple leaked photo of the respective smartphone, things are a now a lot more complex, since the leaked information regarding the brand-new handset comes from a 12-minute long video, available courtesy of the lockergnome website. The video was shot quite recently at the Gnomedex event and ... [read more >>] If you're not an US citizen, you've probably never heard about the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA), designed specifically in order to protect the rights of various digital content. However, the law had some flaws, probably the most important one (which, in fact, came under a lot of criticism over the past few years) involving people's actual usage of the software/hardware equipment they've paid good money for. But it seems that the Library of Congress (which Copyright Office ) has decided to make some amends to this law, following which customers will have a much greater level of control over the software/hardw... [read more >>] Motorola's been touting the release of its next-gen DROID for quite some time now, but it seems that, finally, the teasing is over. So, Motorola and Verizon Wireless have just officially unveiled the DROID X smartphone, which offers, among other things, ultra high-speed Web browsing, intuitive social messaging and access to Android Market, which has more than 65,000 applications.The DROID X is a full-touch smartphone, featuring a 4.3-inch WVGA (854 x 480) display and measuring a hefty 65.50 x 127.50 x 9.90 mm, while the weight has been set at somewhere around 155 grams. The device supports CDMA 800/1900, EV-DO Rev. A networks and, as m... [read more >>] Well, well, the moment pretty much the whole world (not only Apple fans, but normal people as well) has been waiting for is finally upon us. So, at WWDC, Apple, through the voice of its iconic CEO, Steve Jobs, finally unveiled the next iteration of the smartphone that changed the game (and the market) forever: the iPhone.First and foremost, the name. There have been many speculations about what the next-gen iPhone was going to be called, with the iPhone HD emerging as the favorite. However, it seems that the rumors were not exactly true, since Apple decided to go with a much more simple moniker, iPhone 4.Due to the whole lost iPhone scandal... [read more >>] You know, the whole world has been waiting since... forever for Microsoft to launch its own phones, especially after Apple did so a couple of years ago, the result being… well, we all know what the result was, don't we? Anyway, it seems that the Redmond-based technology giant has finally decided to get its mobile game on (as far as hardware is concerned) and unveiled the KIN family of Windows Phones, designed specifically for social-networking addicts (and we all know that there are plenty out there).According to Microsoft, the hardware design was developed in partnership with Sharp. There are two models called KIN ONE and KIN T... [read more >>] Yesterday was quite the day for Apple, since the company from Cupertino held an important event, presenting the latest developments regarding its iPhone ecosystem. And no, we're not talking about a new iPhone iteration (not yet, anyway), but about an update of the operating system powering the aforementioned handheld.The preview of iPhone OS version 4 brought about some extremely exciting surprises, probably the most interesting being the multitasking capability, which offers users a new way to quickly move between apps, and provides developers seven new multitasking services to easily add multitasking features to their apps. These ser... [read more >>] Rumors about the upcoming operating system for mobile phones from Microsoft have been running rampant around the Internet for quite some time now, fueled by quite a large number of leaks and bits and pieces of information. In fact, ever since the major fiasco that was Microsoft's latest OS update, the company's reps acknowledged their faults and set everything on a brand new path, practically erasing everything that had been done before and starting afresh.As Microsoft informs us, their brand new operating system for smartphones will bring together Xbox LIVE games and the Zune music and video experience on a mobile phone, somethin... [read more >>] As some of you have undoubtedly heard by now, Google and their Nexus One smartphone were one of Steve Jobs' targets at a recent meeting with Apple employees, the famous “CEO of the decade” having some pretty nasty stuff to say about the involvement of the Mountain View-based search giant on the mobile phones market.Probably somewhat threatened by these statements and also deciding that it's about time to bring their Nexus One Android smartphone into 2010, Google has finally enabled one of the functions most users were eagerly waiting for, namely multi-touch, as well as several other interesting updates.As far as multi-... [read more >>] Rumors about the Google-branded Nexus One smartphone have been floating around the Internet for a couple of weeks now, so pretty much everyone was expecting the search engine giant to make it official as soon as possible, perhaps even during CES time. However, in order to get all the attention from the tech media, Google decided to go a little early and officially unveiled the Android 2.1-running smartphone developed by the Taiwan-based handset manufacturer yesterday.The device features a 3.7-inch AMOLED 480x800 WVGA display and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 3G QSD8250 chipset, delivering speeds up to 1GHz. Furthermore, it packs 512MB of Flash me... [read more >>] Ever since we witnessed the slew of accusations and bad reviews plaguing Microsoft's latest mobile operating system, Windows Mobile 6.5, we've been dying to get a chance to try it out for ourselves and see whether there was any truth to those reports or not. So, when the opportunity presented itself at a local Samsung-related event, we quickly took the smartphone the respective OS was running on, the Omnia II, for a brief spin, in order to see what the device and its integration with the Microsoft OS is all about.First of all, we'll have to tell you that we can't help but analyze this device from two different points of ... [read more >>] | 
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Well, it really seems that Android's quite keen on taking on the BlackBerry, since Motorola, one of the most impo...
