Nokia 700 review

The Nokia 700, touted as the world's smallest smartphone, is dropping as part of a trio of Nokia handsets (the 600, 700 and 701) running the new Symbian Belle interface. And it is indeed small. It's slim. It's quite sleek too, and many other 'S' adjectives as well. The thin frame holds a 3.2-inch AMOLED ClearBlack touchscreen, 5MP and VGA cameras, ...

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HTC Looking to Buy More Patents

HTC is highly interested in increasing its patent portfolio, chairman Cher Wang told the Wall Street Journal. The company believes it can adequately defend itself against patent-related litigation, but admits that owning more intellectual property would be helpful. "There's so many innovations out there in Silicon Valley and different places, and that's ...

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Nokia Maps for Android

Nokia has updated the HTML5 web app version of Nokia Maps for the Android and iOS platforms. When accessed from the browser, Android and iOS users can now use Nokia Maps even when offline, though it requires users to plan ahead by downloading and saving maps before the connection is lost. Nokia imagines this will help reduce data roaming charges. Nokia ...

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Samsung Transform Ultra

Sprint today announced that it will sell Samsung's Transform Ultra Android smartphone. The Transform Ultra is already sold by Sprint's Boost Mobile brand. The Transform Ultra is a sideways slider that has a 3.5-inch display, 1GHz processor, and runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread with Sprint iD. Other features of the Transform Ultra include a 3 megapixel main ...

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Nokia Confirms U.S. Delivery of Symbian Anna

Nokia has confirmed that owners of Symbian-based smartphones in the U.S. now have access to the Anna system update. Anna will be delivered to the Nokia N8, C7, C6-01 and E7. Symbian Anna uses a new set of icons on the home screens, offers a portrait software QWERTY keyboard, and makes usability improvements to the photo gallery. Nokia targeted some ...

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Droid 2 Global Droid Pro

Verizon Wireless today announced that it is offering the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update to the Motorola Droid Pro and the MOtorola Droid 2 Global. Both phones will receive the new Gingerbread operating system from Google (not Ice Cream Sandwich), which includes a number of new features as well as bug fixes and tweaks. The update is available for download ...

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HTC Partners with Dropbox

HTC announced today via its Facebook page that it has partnered with Dropbox, which provides online storage for smartphones, tablets, and computers. According to HTC, all future HTC Android-based smartphones will come with the Dropbox application preinstalled and will have access to 5GB of cloud-based Dropbox storage. HTC didn't indicate which would ...

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Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray

The Xperia Arc (we're going to be making lot of comparisons to the Arc in this review) is 125 x 63mm with a depth of 8.7mm. The Ray slices most of that off and comes in at a remarkable 111 x 53mm. It is slightly fatter, by less than a millimetre, clocking in at 9.4mm deep. It reminds us very much of the original (and, at the time, revolutionary) HTC Touch ...

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