Samsung has launched a new version if its massively popular Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone for Japan, the Samsung Galaxy S II WiMax which will be available with Japan’s KDDI au.

The new Samsung Galaxy S II WiMAX comes with new specifications over the original Galaxy S II handset, and it features a 4.7 inch Super AMOLED HD display.

The 4.7 inch Super AMOLED HD display has a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels, which means it is capable of displaying HD video and content in 720p.

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Earlier today we heard that the Nokia Lumia 900, which is Nokia’s first LTE enabled Windows Phone smartphone would be available with US mobile carrier AT&T in March.

AT&T seems to have an exclusive deal with Nokia for the Lumia 900 in the US, and now there are reports that the Lumia 900 will be headed to other carriers in quarter three of 2012.

According to the report, AT&T has an exclusive 45 day deal with Nokia, and it is possible that after this date, a slightly different version of the Lumia 900 will be headed to other US mobile carriers, and it is reported to feature a 12 megapixel camera, instead of an 8 ... Read more »

As well as producing a number o0f popular Android and Windows Phone devices, Samsung also produces a range of smartphones which run its own Bada OS.

Now it would appear that Samsung has some new plans for its Bada OS, and Samsung has told Forbes that it plans to merge it Bada OS with Tizen, which is a joint operating system project between Samsung an Intel.

"We have an effort that will merge bada and Tizen,” said Tae-Jin Kang, Senior Vice President of Samsung’s Contents Planning Team in an interview at the Consumer Electronics Show

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The BlackBerry Bold 9790 was announced last November, and the device is expected to be available with a number of the mobile carriers here in the UK some time this month.

We just got an email from the guys over at Clove to let us know that they now have a SIM free version of the BlackBerry Bold 9790 available in the UK, and the handset is retailing for £330 including taxes.

As a reminder the BlackBerry Bold 9790 comes with the latest version of RIM’s mobile OS Blackberry 7 os and it features a 2.44 inch touchscreen display which has a resolution of 360 x 480 pixels.

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Earlier today we heard that the Sony Xperia S would be available in the UK in March, and now we have a video of the new Sony Xperia S in action, and the device looks pretty impressive from the video.

The Xperia S features a 4.3 inch HD display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels, processing is provided by a dual core 1.5GHz processor and it will also feature 32GB of storage.

Other specifications on the Sony Xperia S include a 12 megapixel camera on the back which will be capable of recording full HD video in 1080p and it also features Sony’s Exmor R sensor, plus a front facing 720p HD 1.3 megapixel camera, and DLNA, HDMI and NFC.

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The new Mass Effect 3 game will be the third and final in the series, will be arriving in just two months time, and is currently being developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts.

A new interview with BioWare Pulse has revealed that the new game will provide a much more emotive experience for players. Deepening the characters within the games and providing characters with a more human side. Watch the interview with Mass Effect 3 Lead Writer Mac Walters to discuss the nuances of driving emotion and character development within the Mass Effect 3 world.

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ViewSonic announced a new Android smartphone at CES this year, the ViewSonic ViewPhone 3, which will come with Android 2.3 Gingerbread and features dual SIM card slots.

The ViewSonic ViewPhone 3 features a 3.5 inch touchscreen display and it is powered by a single core 800MHz processor and features a 5 megapixel camera with an LED flash, plus 512MB of RAM.

The device features a dual SIM card slot, and you will be able to make calls and send texts with either of the SIM cards in the device, which means you could use one SIM card for work and one for personal calls.

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We recently heard that Samsung would be releasing a white version of their Galaxy Nexus Android 4.0 smartphone, and now we have some actual pictures of the device, which you can see below.

The white Samsung Galaxy Nexus will be available in the UK from February and device is expected to retail for the same price as the existing model.

As a reminder the Samsung Galaxy Nexus features a 4.65 inch HD display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels, and it is powered by a dual core 1.2GHz processor and comes with 1GB of RAM.

The Galaxy Nexus features two cameras, up front there is a 1.3 megapixel camera which is capable of HD video in 720p, on the back there is an advanced 5 megapixel camera which can record full HD video in 1080p.

Other specifications on the Samsung Galaxy nexus include A-GPS, an accelerometer, proximity sensor, compass and a ... Read more »

Nokia recently announced its first LTE Windows Phone smartphone for the US, the Nokia Lumia 900, which the company unveiled at CES earlier this month.

When the Nokia Lumia 900 was announced we were told that the new Windows Phone smartphone would be headed to US mobile carrier AT&T, although at the time of the announcement we were not given any details on a release date.

Now we have some information on when the Nokia Lumia 900 will be available with AT&T, according to a developer newsletter from Nokia, the device will be available with AT&T in March.

As a reminder the Nokia Lumia 900 features Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, and it comes with a 4.3 inch AMOLED ClearBlack touchscreen display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels.

Other specifications on the Nokia Lumia 900 include a single core 1.4GHz processor, plus a rear facing 8 megapixel camera with an F/2/2 Ca ... Read more »

Sony recently announced their first smartphones under the Sony brand, which will take over from their previous smartphone brand of Sony Ericsson, and one of those devices is the Sony Xperia S.

Now it looks like the Sony Xperia S will be available in the UK from March, as one online retailer has put up a SIM free version of the smartphone for pre-order, and the device will be available for £467.99 SIM free including taxes.

Of course some of the mobile carriers may start selling the device before this date, although we haven’t had any release dates from any of the carriers as yet.

The Sony Xperia S comes with a range of impressive specifications, it will come with Android 2.3 Gingerbread at release, although Sony has promised and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for the handset.

It features a 4.3 inch HD display, which comes with a resolution of 1280 x 72 ... Read more »

We first heard about the HTC Ville, which is possibly one of the first Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphones from HTC, back in November of last year.

The HTC Ville has yet to be officially announced by HTC, but now it looks like this new HTC ICS smartphone will be announced at MWC 2012 in Barcelona next month, and it is reported to be headed to T-Mobile.

We don’t as yet have any official photos or specifications on the HTC Ville, only the details which were leaked last year, which include Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich as the OS and a dual core 1.5GHZ Qualcomm Snapdragon series 4 processor.

Other rumored specifications on the HTC Ville include a 4.3 inch Super AMOLED qHD touchscreen display with a resolution of 540 x 960 pixels, plus it is expected to come with a new version of HTC’s custom user interface HTC Sense 4.0.

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Google already produces flagship models of its smartphones when it release a major new version of Android, which have been released under the Nexus name, with the latest one being the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, which was released with Android 4.0.

Now it would appear that Google is considering doing a same thing with its Google TV platform, and it is reported to be in talks with LG who would produce the Google ‘Nexus’ TV for the release of Google TV 3.0.

The device may or may not use Google’s Nexus brand, but Google are reported to be developing a similar strategy for Google TV as it has done with Android, every time the release a major new version of Google TV, they will choose one manufacturing partner to build a flagship Google TV device for them.

LG recently showed off a number of Google TV device at this years CES, which came with the companies new voice controlled Magic R ... Read more »