Still believed to be missing in action in United States, our friends across big pond are getting a chance to pick up the latest smartphone to come to the market – Blackberry Bold 9790. It was slated to be available in the market of United Kingdom on 20th January 2012, Clove UK, an online retailer delighted consumers by marketing this device earlier than expected. It is available for the price of $504, which is quite expensive and you can place the order for SIM-free version of this smartphone. The Bold 9790 fuses iconic Blackberry design with compact, lightweight form factor, which fits beautifully in your hand or pocket. Enjoy responsive touch, smooth rendering, fluid animations and striking high-resolution display. Standard features on Blackberry Bold 9790 include 2G Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900; 3G Network: HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100 / 800 and HSDPA 900 / 1700 / 2100; QWERTY Keyboard; 2.45 inch TFT capacitive touchscreen with  [...]

Nokia took a stage at CES and announced its first 4G LTE smartphone called Nokia Lumia 900, featuring ClearBlack 4.3 inch AMOLED touchscreen display. Identical to Nokia Lumia 710, 800 and N9, it gets polycarbonate shell, which Nokia calls beautiful and bold. It also boasts 1.4GHz processor, eight-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss f/2.2 28mm lens, wide angle f2.4 front facing camera, 4G LTE connectivity, 512MB RAM, 1830mAh battery and 16GB of internal storage. It will be offered within the next few months and will be priced aggressively. The Lumia 900 is the first smartphone of the company, which is specifically designed for United States, featuring LTE, exclusive applications and large display. With largest display of Nokia, it delivers rich content experience from a handset, which still fits easily in your hand. The 4.3 ClearBlack AMOLED touchscreen display of Nokia Lumia 900 offers bright, rich photos with fast connection speeds based on 4G LTE cutting-edge  [...]

A report from NoMobile states that Acer will be introducing Ice Cream Sandwich goodness in the form of new tablet. Be on the look out of Acer Iconia Tab A700, which will serve as big brother to A200. The Iconia Tab A700 will feature a 10.1 inch screen that boasts 1920 x 1200 pixel resolution, Nvidia Tegra 3 Chip and quad-core processor with potential to clock at up to 1.3GHz each. Its 9800mAh battery will last for 10 hours of video playback. It weighs 650 grams and measures 9.8mm thick.

The Acer Iconia Tab A200 was revealed in United Kingdom this week for the price of £299; therefore you can expect the Acer Iconia Tab A700 for $500. The A200 is little thicker and has less impressive specifications as compared to A700. It gets Nvidia Tegra 2 processor and similar 10.1 inch screen with 1280 x 800 pixel resolution. It doesn’t come with Ice Cream Sandwich, but the company has an upgrade planned for 2012.

Leisurely, manufacturing companies have started to announce Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade details for their smartphone portfolios and now it is LG’s turn. These upgrades will be introduced some time in 2nd and 3rd quarter next year with quite a few notable smartphones missing from Android 4.0 lineup. LG Corporation announced the following today: during Q2 of 2012, updates will start for the following smartphones such as Prada phone by LG 3.0, LG Optimus LTE, LG Optimus 2X, LG Optimus Sol, LG my Touch Q and LG Eclipse. These updates will be followed by updates from following smartphones during Q3 of 2012; LG Optimus 3D, LG Optimus Black, LG Optimus Big, LG Optimus Q2 and LG Optimus EX. The Optimus 2X is also in the list to feature Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade, however the T-Mobile G2X is unfortunately missing. It isn’t sure that why this smartphone won’t be getting an upgrade as G2X is fundamentally similar to Optimus 2X, just  [...]

Samsung finally officially launched their Samsung Omnia W, which is the company’s first smartphone running Windows’ Mango OS. Samsung plans to release the Smartphone in Italy later this month and after that it will be launching it all through Europe, Southeast and SouthWest Asia and Latin America. We didn’t have any information on when the handset will be entering the US markets. It should be known that Samsung was one of the very few early supporters of Microsoft’s Windows Phone mobile platform. The handset has very small success in its early days. The mango update for the handset has been applauded and praised by tech experts and analysts, but whether it will be successful with the consumers or not remains to be seen, and it will also be interesting to see how the handset performs against Apple’s  [...]

If you are a Nokia fan, then we’ve got good news for you, and it’s that Nokia finally will be bringing Smartphones running on their fresh Symbian Belle Operating System. If should be known that Nokia released those handsets last month only, and those handsets includes the Nokia 701 and Nokia 700. Both the newly launched Smartphones are expected to enter the market in coming few years. According to the latest reports featuring the Finnish manufacturer, the company has confirmed the consignment for these Smartphones through a Twitter update. The report has also been confirmed by a Nokia spokesperson. Now, while the arrival of the handsets is confirmed, we still didn’t have any confirmed date for the availability of the handsets and neither has to hear any confirmed  [...]

We first heard of Motorola’s Verizon Droid Bionic, back in January, and since then it has been nine months of only hearing. Finally, our wait has paid off and now we have the DROID Bionic announced by Motorola. The way to enter in the market has not been all-smooth for the Motorola Droid Bionic, and the device itself has seen its fair share of revisions internally as well as externally during all this delay. Because of the delay of nine months, the handset that we are seeing now is completely different from the device that is been launched in the market today. Now, while the handset has being given quite a number of revisions, it’s nice to see that the handset still is rocking and lives up to the hype that surrounded its launch. Considering the fact that the Bionic will be placed at the top shelf of Verizon, and the fact that many manufacturers already have heard a lot about it, the existence  [...]

If you were waiting for the arrival for Samsung galaxy S II in the US market then you can relax now. In an important announcement ahead of an occasion in New York, Samsung announced the arrival of Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone to three major carriers in United States. The Samsung Galaxy S II will be available with T-Mobile, Sprint and AT&T, but none of the launched versions will be having access to the 4G LTE networks of their respective carriers. Instead of the 4G LTE the Samsung Galaxy S II will run AT&T and T-Mobile’s HSPA+, in addition to Sprint’s WiMAX, but apart from these the other specs for the Galaxy S II will remain the same for all the models on all the carriers. All the Galaxy S II models will be powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, an 800 x 480 4.3 in screen, 1GB of RAM and Android 2.3 Gingerbread in addition to the TouchWiz interface of Samsung. All the three Samsung Galaxy S II  [...]