It looks like it's finally official. Virgin Mobile USA and Helio have reached a deal and the former has completely acquired the latter. SK Telecom and Earthlink, which are Helio shareholders have received 13 million shares of Virgin Mobile USA stock. All of the regulatory approval were met. The 13 million shares of Virgin Mobile USA Class A common stock are valued ... continued »

You can get a pretty good preview of the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 over at Smape. Along with comparisons to the HTC Touch Pro, you can also get a look at several images of the Windows Mobile device and its accompanying specs.   The X1 will launch the XPERIA product line of PDA models, which is an ODM-produced by HTC that has ... continued »

LG has announced the LG KC910, the successor to the LG KU990 Viewty, and competition to the newly announced Sony Ericsson C905 and Samsung INNOV8. This GSM Quadband phone has an 8-megapixel camera that supports auto focus and has a Xenon flash module. With a 3-inch touch screen at 240 x 400 resolution and three buttons below the screen, this phone ... continued »

The Luminoso Lucido is yet another offering from Mobiado that's over-priced and lacks current top-of-the-line phone features. This model is very similar to the old Luminoso, except the case is a bit curved and stainless steel. This phone sports a 2 megapixel camera, triband GSM and 2100MHz 3G. This is really no different than the last Mobiado offering. Slap a four-figure ... continued »

Sony Ericsson and T-Mobile have teamed up to announce the TM506 clamshell phone, which will be available beginning in September. This will be the phone-maker's first handset to support T-Mobile's AWS spectrum (1700/2100) and will provide a top-notch web-browsing experience.   The design is compact and rather stylish, but the phone's performance is the real eye-catcher. With GPS, TeleNav, external caller ID, ... continued »

With the football season upon us, the NFL and Sprint have teamed up once again to bring devoted fans of the pigskin Sprint NFL Mobile Live. A webinar was hosted on Monday with Sprint and Howie Long to talk about the upcoming season and to show off what the latest version of Mobile Live contains. The application is free to download ... continued »

Back in January, we talked about two new products from Cell Ranger that can boost your cell phone's signal strength. But now the time has finally arrived. Cell Ranger announced the availability of the Cell Ranger Stix and Cell Ranger Port today, meaning better reception may be right around the corner. These new Cell Ranger products are designed to be smart ... continued »

As the release date for the Meizu M8 swiftly approaches, Jack Wong, CEO of Meizu has released a few additional photos to give consumers a better idea of what to expect.   Jack Wong also had a few things to say about the product that's about to launch. For instance, he made note that they've dropped the "minione" name and are ... continued »

Unboxing a product has become a vital component of a product's release. There's nothing tech-enthusiasts love more than watching videos of reviewers opening up a product for the very first time. Besides, it fills the gap between the product's release and when the average Joe can go out and buy it. But this Samsung i900 Omnia unboxing video takes it ... continued »

As you might remember, back in April we happened onto some leaked specs at our sister site SlashPhone for the LG Prada II. But now a new image at The Boy Genius Report is showing the LG Prada II in the flesh. Or is it? There isn't much new information other than this picture. However, I wouldn't put much weight on ... continued »