Nokia 5250 review: Back to basics

IntroductionThey made a promise and kept it. What can we say – nice phone this Nokia 5250, but not an N8. Yeah we know, we need to be respectful and professional. But it’s easy to be a jerk to a 100-euro smartphone. The Symbian-powered Nokia 5250 is bottom of the smartphone barrel. The low price suggests the feature set is going to be pretty spartan. Which doesn’t mean it’ll fight in the shade. It’s rather going to get into brawls with some pretty basic dumbphones. Nokia 5250 official...

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Nokia World 2010 live coverage: Nokia E7, C7, C6, N8, C3

IntroductionNokia World 2010 has already started and we are reporting live from the event. We will be publishing the live photos and videos of the newly announced devices in this article along with our first impressions so make sure to keep an eye on it.This year's Nokia World 2010 started a few hours ago. Here's a video from the grand opening:The official announcements of the Nokia new business flagship - E7 and the mid-range touch-driven Nokia C7 and NokiaC6-01. All three new devices run...

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HTC 2010 event coverage: The droids are coming

It's HTC's turn to announce their new phones. As expected, HTC announced the Desire's successor, the HTC Desire HD, and the QWERTY-packing HTC Desire Z. The new droids will expand HTC's portfolio in the high-end and are sure to become a common theme in geek dreams.There have been plenty of leaks and we feel like we already know these phones. The HTC Desire HD is the GSM version of the HTC Evo 4G - 4.3" inches of touchscreen, 8MP of camera with 720p video recording.The HTC Desire Z already...

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HTC Aria Review

IntroductionFirst we were hit by a Wildfire, now we’re being soothed by an Aria. The HTC Aria shares a lot of DNA with the HD mini, but makes the jump to Android and is ready to take on compact touchscreen midrangers. HTC Aria official photos The HTC Aria goes against the current trend of ever growing touchscreens. HTC are already pushing the limits with the 4.3” display on the Evo 4G. The Aria settles for a more compact 3.2” screen and it opts out of the gigahertz race too – with a 600MHz...

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Samsung P1000 Galaxy Tab hands-on

Samsung P1000 Galaxy Tab is Samsung’s move onto the tablet warfield and luckily we are right here in the battle fray to give you first-hand scoop from the announcement event. Some might argue that it’s rather a step down from laptops but the Samsung Galaxy Tab smartphone DNA is obvious from the moment you touch it. Samsung P1000 Galaxy Tab official photos The 7-inch Android tablet has full phone functionality and the only thing that separates it from being called an insanely oversized...

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BlackBerry Bold 9780 gets reviewed before getting official

BlackBerry Bold 9780 still exist only in the rumorland, but it already has its review and even a video walkthrough. It's safe to say the secrets of the Bold 9780 broke loose and there is nothing left for RIM to surprise us. When we first met the BlackBerry Bold 9780 three months ago, it was still rumored to be called Onyx II. Well, it seems the 9780 is keeping the Bold tradition and will succeed the previous Bold 9700. The new Bold 9780 looks similar to its predecessor, but comes with 5 ...

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Apple sells 14.1M iPhones, scores another record-breaking quarter

Oh, boy, is this a good time to be an Apple shareholder or what! The company has just published its financial report for the quarter ending in September and things just couldn't be better. The company posted revenue of 20.34 billion US dollars, of which 4.31 billion were net profit. Not only are those the best results ever achieved by Apple, they are also immensely better than the one for the same period last year. In Q3 of 2009 the numbers stood at 12.21 billion and 2.53 billion dollars ...

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Palm Pre 2 official, available this Friday, runs webOS 2.0

Meet the Palm Pre 2. This time officially. The thing showed up a few days back but now it's as official as it gets. And it's due this Friday. Along with some great new features, the Palm Pre 2 will arrive with the brand new webOS 2.0. There aren't that many improvements brought by the Pre 2 but the ones listed may as well be enough to make upgrading worthwhile (if you happen to be a Pre or Pre Plus owner). The plastic screen is now gone - it's been replaced by a durable glass one. Unfortunately,...

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HTC Desire HD now available in UK online stores

The HTC Desire HD has been featured in numerous pre-release articles but it's only now that you are finally able to go and actually buy it. It's just you won't have to go anywhere as it's available in the online UK stores for several carriers, as well as a SIM-free version, too. The beefy droid topped performance benchmarks, as it should - it has more RAM than some netbooks (768MB), and it's a champ at booting too. The Desire HD also features the latest Sense UI with HTCSense.com integration....

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BlackBerry Bold 9780

The highly rumored BlackBerry Bold 9780 is almost official - it has just been spotted on the Vodafone Netherlands web page and should hit the market soon. And while we've already seen the smartphone before, its specs sheet was still missing. Up until now. Now, thanks to Vodafone Netherlands, we can finally take a closer look at the BlackBerry Bold 9780 specs list and see what's under the phone's hood. Sadly, there is still no information on the thing's processor, but the rest is all there...

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Eclair-running Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10

The Android 2.1 Eclair update for the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 is still cooking, but their product blog is letting us have another taste with another video of the new firmware running on an X10 and all the goodies that it brings. The first videos, showed off camera update - 720p video with continuous autofocus - and didn't spend much time on the UI changes. This new video digs a little deeper - the custom Timescape on the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 is first. It's reportedly more responsive and...

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LG C900 with QWERTY muscle leaks next, WP7 ticks inside

Remember those two LGs leaked yesterday? Here is another one. The Windows Phone 7 running LG C900 is the QWERTY brother of E900 offering the same power, but on a smaller screen. LG C900 LG C900 is rumored to pack a 1GHz QSD8650 Snapdragon core, which is supposed to be the same as the E900's one. The rest of the known specs are a 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen, all-round connectivity, 3.5mm audio jack and microUSB port. And one more thing, the device should be heavy because its body is...

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Palm reveals key webOS 2.0 features, beta now available

Palm's webOS 2.0 is coming by the end of the year but today's big news is that the first webOS 2.0 beta has just been released. Sadly, it's only made been available for developers. They are getting the webOS 2.0 SDK beta as well. At least we get a sneak peek at some key webOS 2.0 features - there's no word (or rumor) of a new WebOS device just yet. One of the major advantages of the webOS over its rivals is the way it deals with multiple apps running at the same time. Thanks to the webOS...

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Apple reveals iOS 4.1 for iPhone, promises 4.2 in November

Tonight at its annual music-centric event Apple dropped the bomb on a handful of iPhone news as well. Most of all, it's the iOS 4.1 update for iPhone. The Apple iPad will sit this one out but will join in on the fun with iOS 4.2 in November. iOS 4.1 for iPhone is mainly a bug-fixing update but it introduces several new features as well. The bugs we're talking about here are well-known - issues with the proximity sensor and Bluetooth functionality of iPhone 4 plus the dismal performance on...

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