Written by Ryan Consumers’ buying choices of cell phones are influenced by both the available features and the form. With every killer feature added and modification in forms made, the consumers keep changing their minds. It is almost a rage to get hold of the latest model. This guide is written with a focus on [...]

Today Leap Wireless announced that its Cricket service is now offering the Nokia 3606. The 3606, a flip phone first announced in the third quarter of 2008, is one of the first from Nokia to support the AWS band. It includes stereo Bluetooth, a 1.3 megapixel camera with LED flash, a microSD card slot for [...]

Today Samsung announced a new highly rugged phone that can withstand shock, vibration, and is certified at IP57 for ingress protection against dust, water (up to 30 minutes at 1 meter), salt fog, and hot and cold temperature extremes. The B2100 Xplorer is a quad-band GSM/EDGE bar style phone that also has a loud speakerphone, [...]

Documents seen on the FCC site provide details about an unannounced Motorola phone. The QA4 is a slider that also features a touch screen for user input. It has tri-band 850/1700/1900 MHz CDMA radios, including EVDO, aGPS and stereo Bluetooth. A camera of unknown quality is visible in the pictures of the QA4, and the [...]

Today Samsung unveiled two more TouchWiz-based handsets. Aside from TouchWiz and Samsung’s widgets, both phones have a new feature called Gesture Lock. Gesture Lock lets users lock/unlock different applications on their phones by drawing letters on the screen. For example, if a user draws the letter M, it could be set to open their messaging [...]

Today Leap Wireless’ Cricket announced the availability of the A600 USB wireless modem. The A600 has embedded software drivers, negating the need for an install CD, and it has a slot for microSD cards. It works with Windows 2000, XP and Vista 32 & 64 bit, and Macintosh OS 10.3.9 or higher. It costs $70 [...]

Today Verizon Wireless announced the CDM8975, which is available through Verizon’s business channels starting today. The 8975, made by Personal Communications Devices, is push-to-talk capable and has GPS, stereo Bluetooth, a 1.3 megapixel camera with video capture and stereo speakers. It supports microSD cards up to 8GB, and is compatible with a number of Verizon’s [...]

Today SanDisk announced a new initiative that is aimed at allowing mobile network operators to deliver and control content via microSD cards. The SanDisk Service Delivery Card (SDC) will allow carriers to offer custom branded service discovery experience while also giving them a physical delivery mechanism to get operator-branded services onto a multitude of different [...]

Today Nokia announced the newest handset in its XpressMusic line, the 6530, a bar-style phone that runs S60 rather than Series 40. The 5630 integrates some of the elements seen in S60 5th Edition (which is used for the 5800 and N97), including the new Contact Bar, which lets users find and interact with their [...]

Today Samsung announced the newest phone in its style collection, the S8300 UltraTOUCH. This slider phone features a 12-key keypad and a full AMOLED touch display for interacting with the phone. The display measures 2.8 inches and is scratch resistant. The S8300 carries an 8 megapixel camera with dual LED flash, autofocus, Smile Shot, geo-tagging [...]