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Blackberry’s latest edition is the Bold, which as the name suggests, has a bigger, bolder presence than most other smartphones, though the black and silver finish and the smooth curves also give it a more sleek and refined look. The Blackberry Bold has all the best Blackberry features of past models and adds, amongst other things, the speed of 3G. Designed to replace the 8820, it does have a bit more heft than the 8820, weighing in at 136 grams, but most people would have a difficult time telling the two apart just by weight or looks.  Read more...

Sony Ericsson has announced its second enterprise smartphone. The London-based mobile-phone maker introduced Wednesday the XPERIA X2, a Windows Mobile 6.5-based smartphone equipped with a QWERTY keyboard, a high-resolution touchscreen, and an 8.2-megapixel camera.  Read more...

This is pretty interesting even if it doesn’t apply to you (you’re not a T-Mobile G1 owner): apparently since the T-Mobile’s G1 internal flash memory is so puny, any OS updates after Cupcake (1.5) simply won’t fit. That means besides for some possible security updates, little fixes here and there, the T-Mobile G1 is a wrap as far as new software from an operating system perspective is concerned.  Read more...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Multimedia, Bad Apple, iPhone, MobileMe, App Store, App Review

Qik [iTunes link] is an eagerly awaited free app for the iPhone. Most other video capable phones have a version of it. Qik allows, among other things, live streaming from your phone to the web. How could someone not want that capability? Early on, Qik offered a version for jailbroken phones that worked quite well.  Read more...

According to Gartner, Inc., a business technology research company, cell phone sales totaled 286.1 million units during the second quarter of this year – a 6.1 percent decrease over the second quarter of last year. But, smart phone sales picked up considerable steam surpassing 40 million units in sales, a 27 percent increase from the second quarter of last year.

Windows 7 isn’t just sleeker, faster and more productive, now it can cure the sick, too.

Microsoft has just released the Wireless Comfort 5000 keyboard for Windows 7, home to an “ergonomist-approved” Comfort Curve layout that encourages natural wrist posture with a slight six-degree curve.

INQ’s unique take on the featurephone just got a significant facelift in the form of the new INQ Mini 3G and the INQ Chat. Leaving behind the INQ1′s last-gen looks, the new INQ Chat offers a QWERTY keyboard in an E71-esque chassis, 2.4-inch screen, GPS and a 3.2 megapixel auto focus camera, while the Mini 3G takes up the T9er’s mantle with a slim candybar form factor, 2.2-inch screen and 2 megapixel camera. The big deal of course is still the (award winning) software side, which already includes features such as Skype, Facebook and Windows Live Messenger integration, along with a Synergy-style integrated address book. New additions include a Twitter app, push Gmail, and iTunes syncing, courtesy of DVD Jon’s doubleTwist software, and INQ claims that it’ll be much more proactive with software updates this time around. The phones are only dipping their toes into the media playback pool, with hardly any onboard storage, empty microSD slots, and the ever-annoying USB-to-3.5mm converter headphone jack situation, but all the parts are there. INQ’s also going to pull together an “app store” of sorts by curating freely available Java applets compatible with the handsets.  Read more...

When I heard that Funambol was rolling out an open source mobile cloud sync service for mobile VoIP users, I’ll be honest — I wasn’t thinking about the open code, or about how much easier it would make contacting people worldwide over a diverse array of devices. I immediately thought of my dad.  Read more...

LG has pushed the design boat out again, this time bringing the world’s first transparent phone in the touchscreen GD900 Crystal.