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First of all, it wasn't a Samsung A303 but an LG phone that melted inside the shirt pocket of a Korean man found dead two days ago. LG has been at pains to explain their safety precautions regarding the batteries in their cellphones: `But we believe that the battery was very unlikely to explode. Our...

Boy Genius Report has the early specs of RIMs touch screen iPhone iller. The BlackBerry 9000 will be using the 624MHz Intel XScale PXA270, which is 24MHz faster than the iPhone's processor and HSDPA connectivity. The screen will have 480 x 320 pixels and 1GB of onboard memory. Besides 3.5G HSDPA,...

Haier's tiny lozenge-shaped cellphone has been cloned by a Chinese manufacturer. The Black Pearl, which we had only compliments for when it was announced last year, has been cloned back and front and dubbed Mphone Radio Number One. It's a GSM phone like the original with a built-in MP3...

It's been disappointing for fans of 3G technology that this year's hottest gadget doesn't have it. Apple could only assure us a 2008 launching of the 3G version. Apple opted for 2.5G technology instead of 3G having reasoned that 3G drains battery life too fast. The iPhone is equipped with WiFi...

Americans may have been enjoying the coolest phone in the world months before everybody else, but there are also other cool cellphones that apparently only Americans cannot have. Take the Moto Ming, for example, which I have been doting on early last year. Forbes, in keeping with the spirit of the...

We were hoping we'd never hear this, but a 33-year-old excavator driver in Korea died after his cellphone battery exploded. Seo was found in the morning dead with his chest badly burned. Though the cellphone maker has been classified by the authorities a picture of the culprit suggests that it was...

For some unexplained reason, PhoenandPhone is selling iPhones both unlocked and with subscription to four French wireless providers. The site sells iPhones unlocked for 679 euros and 299 Euros if you get it with a Bouygues contract, perhaps the cheapest iPhone deal in Europe. Orange was France's...

Nokia has finally been unseated in the latest "Guide to Greener Electronics" list. The usurper is none other than manufacturing rival Sony Ericsson. Apple fared very well despite not keeping its promises to use materials that are safer for the environment. Nokia dropped to number 9 from number 1....

The word is only coming out now, but AT&T's LG Shine has been available since Friday. Well, we knew about this for two months now and all we can say is that it's unfair to other wireless operators in the US. I mean, AT&T already has the iPhone; it doesn't need another blockbuster fashion phone to...

If you've been following iPhone news since early last year, you might have come across information regarding the Meizu M8 miniOne. The M8 is China's answer to Apple and it's come a long way through several possible specs, at one time including HSDPA and GPS. I'm curious to see what Meizu will...

Nokia has just patented what looks like a dual-screen phone similar with an undeniable resemblance to the Nintendo DS. The handset is a simple clamshell with a wide body. It folds up to look like an iPhone with a sash in the middle of the touch screen. Though primarily known for its sliders and...

Who would've thunk it? The iPhone too expensive for Brits. Gfk NOP surveyed 500 individuals and got the following results: I'm thinking of adding it to my Christmas list 2% I quite like it but there are lots of other phone I'm also thinking about 5% I like the look of it but it is too...

Singapore is an hour's flight from where I live and I have always been curious about its squeaky clean image. Not that I don't like squeaky clean; in fact, my apartment could use some cleaning. Recently, there's been a big hullabaloo about a promotional video made and released by Singapore's Media...

Canadians rejoice! The Apple iPod will have a competitor for your wallets this Christmas. Microsoft's first-gen Zune has made it to the Great White North (sorry, it's only the Zune 30 and who knows how long it will take the Zune 2 to get to Canada). Canadian Zunes are available in multiple colors,...

Japanese Hokuto system has a brilliant idea that will help curb dangerous materials from old cellphones and they are doing it now. Some handset parts can be reused to make pocket PCs called DView. This is a very interesting development in environmentally sound manufacturing. If DView works, bigger...

T-Mobile will be selling iPhones without contract for the low price of 999 Euros to whoever wants one in Germany. T-Mobile has won the right to sell iPhones in Germany but Vodafone has filed an injunction to temporarily prevent them. T-Mobile's choice is definitely a surprise to Vodafone. T-Mobile...

We've reported about the BlackBerry 9000, which is supposed to be a touchscreen device that will compete with the Apple iPhone, and haven't heard much since. There's still no word from RIM but Carmi Levy, an analyst at AR Communications Inc., says it's the logical next step for the BlackBerry: a...

Samsung moves into Nokia Nseries territor with its new FlipShot camera phone for Verizon. We suspected Samsung is encroaching into the metallic fashionableness of Moto with its newest clamshell the SLM, but now Samsung's intentions have become too obvious. The U900 camera phone has a 3 MP camera...

Symantec is jumping the gun on viruses with their new product, the Norton Smartphone Security. It's an anti-virus for Windows Mobile and Symbian, the two most widely used portable OS in the market. The Norton Smartphone Security works in Windows Mobile 5 and Windows Mobile 6 as well as on phones...

If you've been wondering when the heck Apple is going to give us an iPhone with 3G connectivity, try asking Apple in Spanish. Yep, rumor has it that a 3G iPhone is heading for Spain before anywhere else in the world. Why Spain? The rumor does not say so, but Spain it insist it is. Once again we get...