Mobile Phone Reviews - GSM MAG

The full 2009 roadmap for HTC’s smartphones is available and already some of these devices were announced (Diamond2, Touch Pro2, Magic), but now it’s time to have a look at those that weren’t. Among the handsets mentioned below, Firestone stands out, thanks to its large touchscreen and 8 megapixel camera.

HTC Whitestone is also worth [...]

According to Tom Keys, chief operating officer of the prepaid phone company MetroPCS, the flat-rate regional carrier will deploy LTE, the next-generation wireless standard, beginning in 2010.
MetroPCS, which currently operates a CDMA network on AWS and PCS spectrum holdings, said last August that it had picked LTE as its 4G standard, following the lead of [...]

The news of the day is that HTC Touch Diamond2 will be arriving on April 17 2009, or so claims Expansys and it’ll cost about $560.

Unveiled at MWC 2009, together with Touch Pro2 and HTC Magic, the smartphone packs a Qualcomm MSM7200 528 MHz processor, Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional (upgradable to WM 6.5) and 512 [...]

Nokia’s CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo claimed recently that the Finnish company plans on entering the portable PC biz, by launching a laptop, or more. We’ve heard such rumors in the past year, but this is the first time we’ve ever received official confirmation.

His reasons are clear, the functionality of the mobile phone and the PC are [...]

The Nokia N86 8MP has an expected release date of July 22 2009. Expansys has posted the on-line pre-orders at the whopping price of 625 Euro, which is almost double the expected price of 375 euro before taxes posted by Nokia. The price should drop down to more reasonable levels once the phone hits the [...]

HTC disappointed the North American public last year, saying that they won’t bring the Touch HD to the States. This bad news was delivered via Twitter and now the same micro-blogging tool brings the good news: Touch Pro 2 WILL be available in the States.

Let us remind you that HTC unveiled Touch Pro 2 and [...]

As soon as Touch Diamond 2 and Touch Pro 2 were shown at MWC 2009, we thought that they’ll reach T-Mobile as MDA devices. And yes they will, Diamond 2 getting rebranded as the T-Mobile MDA Compact V.
This touchscreen smartphone will have the same features as its original version, Windows Mobile 6.1, a 3.2 inch [...]

Its no surprise that the latest mobile phone from HTC, the HTC Max 4G, provides as its name suggests, a satisfaction to the max. Despite its striking resemblance with the previous Touch HD (including the features such as the display), the MAX 4G is an experience in mobile telephony.
Just like the Touch HD, the Max [...]

Sony Ericsson refused to wait until the Mobile World Congress opened on Monday in Barcelona, and Sunday evening the company unveiled its prototype Idou smartphone and provided an early glance at its second-ever full touchscreen phone. The company also unveiled an 8 megapixel camera phone and unlimited movie download service for mobile phones.
Sony Ericsson’s Idou [...]

After seeing the LG Arena KM900 and GM730 handsets at MWC 2009, the Asian manufacturer unveiled a brand new device, the KT770, a Symbian S60 powered phone. LG KT770 runs on Symbian S60 3rd Edition and it’s an attractive slick slider that will go on sale in the next few months, at an unknown price.

The [...]