If you see holidays such as St Patrick's day as an opportunity to shamelessly cash in with a so-called "special edition", then step forward and take a bow: you're well on your way to being a cellphone marketing expert.  As Valentine's showed us, launching a "new" model need only involve changing the colour and thinking up a slogan; hence Sprint's green St ... continued »

While we knew it was coming, the exact release date and price of LG's Scoop (aka Rumor) on the Alltel network was a mystery until today.  Priced at $59.99 thanks to a $40 mail-in rebate, the QWERTY-equipped slider is available today in three colours - orange, blue and slate - and comes with AOL Instant Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger preinstalled.  continued »

The keypress issue affecting Sprint's LG-made Rumor handset - whereby certain combinations of buttons pressed during startup could actually wipe the phone's firmware - and which initially Sprint denied (claiming the Rumor was "too popular" rather than being put on hold while LG came up with a fix) has been addressed with a software update. Pre-installed on all newly ... continued »

Alltel have today rolled out three new handsets... well, new to them, anyway. As well as a red BlackBerry Pearl, there's their own version of the LG Rumor, in this case called the Scoop, complete with slide-out keyboard, and a music-loving clamshell by Samsung called the Muse. continued »

News flash, news flash, update regarding the LG Rumor. We are pleased to report that sales of Rumor by LG have exceeded our expectations. We knew would be a popular product and had every confidence in it, but the actual sales have far exceeded our projections. For this reason, we are facing inventory issues. We are working closely with our LG ... continued »