Further details have been squeezed out regarding the Sony Ericsson 'Paris' P5, including an image of the phone which confirms it will support horizontal as well as landscape use, and more information about the overall spec of the handset.  In a Q&A session, Michell Bak confirmed HSDPA, suggested the P5 measures around 10.5 x 4-5cm, with a manual lens cover ... continued »

After their official blog let slip last Thursday, Nokia have officially announced the launch of the N-Gage mobile gaming service, making over thirty games available to owners of Nokia N81, N81 8GB, N82, N95 and N95 8GB handsets.  In addition, the N-Gage Arena community will allow gamers to meet friends, find others to play multiplayer games, discuss topics on the message ... continued »

LG have announced the latest in their Black Label series, a luxury slider that packs a 5-megapixel camera into a chassis the company is describing as the world's thinnest for a snapper of that resolution: less than 14.9mm, then, to undercut Samsung's G600.  And since Black Label handsets are more than just megapixels and spec sheets, it'll be made from carbon-fiber ... continued »

Lenovo's $100m sale of the company's cellphone arm has been approved by shareholders, clearing the final hurdle necessary before buyer Hony Capital can take over the dwindling business.  Hony Capital, a private equity firm, have paid just $8m less than sales of Lenovo's cellphones made in the last quarter, after a 31-percent drop in shipments. The sale actually completed on March 17th, ... continued »

Looks like someone let the plasma cat out of the proverbial bag too soon, and is now desperately backtracking to try to salvage a business relationship: the press release issued yesterday for Panasonic and AbleComm's venture putting tiny plasma screens into cellphones has been thoroughly denounced as "completely false".  The release, which described the compact plasma screens as a "pre-emptive" strike ... continued »

Rumors that Dell is poised to leap into the cellphone market and oust all rivals with a clutch of low-cost smartphones for the everyman come up pretty regularly; however, while analysts and "industry sources" say one thing, Dell always maintains it has no plans to add mobiles to its range.  At the company's analyst meeting today Alex Grunzen, senior VP ... continued »

As promised, Nokia has released the N-Gage mobile gaming application for selected handsets in its range.  N-Gage, the trial of which came to an end on March 27th, will be officially announced next week, but the N-Gage blog gave avid mobile gamers a tip-off that the software was already live.  Currently available for the Nokia N81, N81 8GB, N82, N95 ... continued »

In the regular world, plasma TVs are large and cellphones are small; in Panasonic's world, however, a cellphone is just another opportunity to squeeze in a tiny, plasma-based display.  The new, low-voltage screens - developed with AbleComm, Inc. - have apparently been a decade in the making, and rival OLED displays for brightness, contrast, thinness and, most importantly of all, ... continued »

Microsoft's deal with AT&T to put the Surface touchscreen-table into select stores has had a mixed reaction, usually with a fair amount of iPhone-related teasing mixed in, so we dispatched Vincent to check out the multitouch marvel and give his honest opinion: useful selling tool or just storefront bling?  We've got three exclusive videos of the AT&T Surface and a gallery ... continued »

Yahoo! today revealed the updated version of its oneSearch mobile search application, version 2.0, which includes Search Assist, Voice-Enabled Search, Idle Screen Access and Open Search Results.  A combination of predictive query entry and speech-recognition provided by specialists vlingo, together with a broad range of search databases and an active program to facilitate publishers and developers in adding further information to the service, oneSearch ... continued »