LG Prada K2 benchmarked

The mysterious P940 aka LG Prada K2 has been put through its paces in a good old fashioned benchmarking session, revealing a couple of details about its innards. The handset, which is also sometimes referred to as the LG Prada 3.0, is listed as rocking a 1GHz processor and running Android 2.3.7 (Gingerbread). That OS is a little disappointing ...

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Nokia Looking to Pawn Its Vertu Luxury Line

Nokia is interested in selling off its U.K.-based Vertu subsidiary, which sells high-end cell phones. According to a report in the Financial Times, Nokia has hired Goldman Sachs to help it fetch top dollar for the cell phone unit, which is valued between $270 and $400 million. The Financial Times says that private equity groups will be the most likely ...

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ZTE Aiming High-End Smartphones at U.S. Market

ZTE said it intends to tackle the high-end smartphone market in the U.S. with new, flagship phones as soon as next year. "By 2015, we expect the U.S. to be the largest market for handsets for ZTE," said Lixin Cheng, president of the Chinese company's North American operations, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. "Next year, we're going to launch ...

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T-Mobile's white Samsung Galaxy S II

T-Mobile will sure have a busy day on December 14. First, they are set to hold a special event alongside Nokia, in which the first Nokia Windows Phone will be launched in the US, probably the Lumia 710. Also, today we found out that on the same day, T-Mobile is releasing the white edition of the highly acclaimed Samsung Galaxy S II which spots all the well-known ...

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Nokia selling off Vertu luxury

Nokia is preparing to sell Vertu, a UK-based subsidiary that specialises in handmade luxury phones for the super rich. The process is at an early stage, although there has been interest from private equity groups and it's likely to attract interest from luxury goods brands, according to sources of the Financial Times. Yet to be officially valued, ...

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FCC Outs Samsung U380 Slider

Documents seen on the Federal Communications Commission web site provide details about an unannounced feature phone from Samsung. The U380 is a sideways slider with full QWERTY keyboard bound for Verizon Wireless, based on images of the device and spectrum support. The FCC confirms that the U380 supports CDMA EVDO in the 850/1900MHz bands, as well as Bluetooth. ...

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Motorola Explains Android 4.0

Motorola today shared some information via its blog about how it is approaching Android 4.0 and updating its roster of smartphones to the newest operating system from Google. Now that the source code has been released by Google, Motorola has started step one in the process, which entails taking the source code and incorporating it into upgrades for devices ...

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Nokia Pushing First Update to Lumia 800

Nokia today indicated that it is delivering the first system update to the Lumia 800 Windows Phone device. The update adds features, such as improved email, audio quality, and brightness, as well as better voicemail notifications. The update also makes performance enhancements, and power efficiency and charging improvements. The update will take several ...

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