Samsung’s new Windows Phone 8 smartphone, the Samsung Ativ S is now available to pre-order in the UK, the SIM free version of the Ativ S will retail for £442.80 including taxes and it will be available around the end of October.

The Samsung Ativ S comes with Windows Phone 8 and it is powered by a dual core 1.5GHz processor and it features a 4.8 inch Super AMOLED touchscreen display with a HD resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels.

The Samsung Ativ S come with 16GB of built in storage, and it also features a microSD card slot that can take up to 32GB cards, there is also a rear 8 megapixel camera for photos and video, which features auto-focus and an LED flash,  and a front facing 1.9 megapixel camera for video chat.

Other specifications on the Samsung Ativ include Bluetooth 3.0, microUSB, 1GB of RAM, WiFi and a 2,300 mAh battery, UK mobile retailer Clove are now taking pre-orders on the Samsung Ativ S, you can f ... Read more »

US mobile carrier T-Mobile has announced that Samsung’s Galaxy S III smartphone is their best selling smartphone ever, the news was posted on Twitter and you can see the tweet from T-Mobile below.

    Did you know the Samsung Galaxy S III is @tmobile‘s all-time best-selling device? RT if you love your device!

    — @TMobile

No doubt Samsung will be pleased to know that their new Galaxy S III smartphone is T-Mobile’s best selling device, we wonder if the handset would have been as popular if Apple’s iPhone’s were available to buy on T-Mobile’s network.

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The Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update should now be available for both devices, and it brings a range of new features to the Element tablet and the Burst smartphone.

Android 4.0 makes your devices easier to use and more powerful than ever. The many new features of this update include a new browser with improved page loading, tabbed browsing, offline reading and desktop mode. The new lock screen provides shortcuts to the camera, text messaging, phone dialer and home screen. You can also create home screen folders just by dragging one app icon onto another, and swipe away notifications bar.

With this update, Pantech Element customers will have resizable widgets and an updated Setup Wizard ... Read more »

Japan’s NTT DoCoMo has demoed a new smartphone which features a rather interesting user interface, the Grip UI, which works when you touch the side of the smartphone.

On either side of the device there are pressure sensors, and a custom user interface which responds to the pressure on these sensors placed on the side of the device, have a look at the brief video of it in action below.

At the moment the handset is just a concept, but it could be developed to work with complex gestures as well as simple ones, whether or not it will make it into production remains to be seen.

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We have been hearing rumors about the new HTC One X+ over the last few weeks, and HTC has just officially unveiled the device and we have full details on the new HTC One X+.

The HTC One X+ is powered by a quad core 1.7Ghx NVIDIA Tegra 3 AP37 processor and it comes with 64GB of built in storage, here will be a HTC One X+ version and a HTC One X+ LTE version.

The HTC One X+ comes with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, and HTC Sense 4+, there is also a 2,100 mAh battery, which according to HTC gives you up to 50 percent more talk time than the original HTC One X.

The HTC One X+ comes with HTC Watch 2.0, which will let you watch thousands of movies on your handset, and HTC have also introduced a video hub with HTC Sense 4+ which lets you put all your videos in one place.

The HTC One X+ will go on sale in Europe and North Asa in October and in South Asia in November, it is also headed to the US, although HTC has said ther ... Read more »

After going up for pre-order in the UK during August, UK readers who have been patiently waiting for the Acer CloudMobile smartphone to arrive in the UK. Will be pleased to learn that from today it is now finally available to purchase for around £290 SIM free, after originally being listed with a September 5th launch date.

To re-cap the Acer CloudMobile smartphone is equipped with a 4.3 inch touchscreen display sporting a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. Its powered by a 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor, supported by 1GB RAM, and comes supplied running Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) operating system.

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Apple’s new iPhone 5 uses new display technology, the new technology 
is called in-cell display and the touch sensors are integrated directly 
into the display rather than being in a separate layer like on the iPhone 4S

Apple announced yesterday that they had sold 5 million iPhone 5′s in the first weekend, 
this was below what many analysts had been expecting, 
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O2 has now published some pricing on the iPhone 5 when it hits their retail stores next Friday the 21st of September, you can see details on the pricing below.

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Some of our readers will remember the Sony Xperia Sola which was announced a while back, Sony have yet to give an exact launch date for the device, although it looks like it is now available in Hong Kong for about $387.

The Sony Xperia Sola features a 3.7 inch Reality Display with Sony’s Mobile BRAVIA Engine, and the handset is powered by Android 2.3 Gingerbread,with an ICS update promised for the summer.

Other specifications on the Sony Xperia Sola include a dual core 1GHz processor, plus XLOUD and 3D surround sound, and the handset will come with NFC and will also use Sony’s Smart Tag technology and the device will come with two NFC enabled ... Read more »