Nokia has come up with a statement that the battery woes that plagued the Lumia 800 should have been gone by now after its latest update.

A company official made the statement in Nokia’s forum to clear the air after some continue to complain that their batteries just could not hold enough charge for decent day-to-day activities.

According to the company official, the update labelled 1600.2483.8106.11500 should have fixed the battery issue as shown on their tests.

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Sony announced back in October that they would be buying Ericsson out of their Sony Ericsson joint smartphone venture for a total of $1.47 Billion, Sony would then re-brand its mobile phones under the ‘Sony’ brand.

It looks like the $1.47 billion buyout had now been approved by the European regulators on the 26th of January, and this will mean that Sony now has full control of its mobile phone division and also the patents that go with it.

Sony recently announced their latest financial results for quarter four of 2011, and the company posted a loss of 207 million Euros, around $272 million USD.

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LG and Prada announced their latest smartphone a while back, and now it looks like the new LG Prada 3.0 will go on sale in the UK tomorrow, as UK mobile retailer Phones4U will be selling the handsets with a number of different mobile carriers.

The LG Prada 3.0 features a 4.3 inch multi-touch touchscreen display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels and it also comes with Android Gingerbread.

Other specifications on the LG Prada 3.0 include a dual core 1GHz processor, plus 8GB of built in storage and a microSD card slot that can take up to 32GB microSD cards.

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We haven’t had a good iPhone 5 rumor for some time, the latest one comes from the guys over at 9 to 5 Mac, who apparently received some information for a source at Foxconn in China.

According to the report the iPhone 5 is ready for production, and it will feature a larger 4 inch display than the existing iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, with a larger footprint as well.

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Samsung has this week taken screwdriver to its own Galaxy Note tablet this week and dismantled it revealing its workings to the world. The Samusng Galaxy Note was originally announced by during IFA 2011 in Berlin and was later launched in late October 2011 in Europe. Last month, Samsung announced that 1 million Galaxy Notes were shipped in less than two months, and that Galaxy Note would be available in the US in 2012.

To recap the Smasnug Galaxy Note is equipped with a 5.3” WXGA (1280 x 800 ... Read more »

It looks like there is another new Windows Phone smartphone headed to AT&T on the 18th of March, as well as the new Nokia Lumia 900, AT&T will also be offering the HTC Titan II from March the 18th.

The HTC Titan II will be available for $199 when you sign up to a new two year contract with AT&T and the device comes with the latest version of Microsoft’s mobile OS, Windows Phone 7.5 Mango.

Other specifications on the HTC Titan II include a ... Read more »

The Motorola Droid RAZR Maxx is now available from Verizon, and the handset is available for $299 when you sign up to a new two year contract with Verizon Wireless.

The Droid RAZR Maxx is essentially a Droid RAZR with a higher capacity battery and the handset comes with Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread, although Verizon have said that it will get Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in the future.

Specifications on the Motorola Droid RAZR Max include a 4.3 inch qHD touchscreen display and processing is provided by a dual core 1.2GHz processor, and it also features two camer ... Read more »

Earlier today we heard that the Nokia Lumia 900 would be available in the UK in June, the news came after the device appeared on a retailers website, the page has since been pulled.

Now according to Eldar Murtzain, the device will be the Nokia Lumia 910, which is the European version of the 900, and it will come without 4G LTE and will feature a higher specification camera than the Lumia 900.

The Nokia Lumia 910 is reported to feature a 12 megapixel camera, and the device will share similar specifications with the Lumia 900 which will include a 4.3 inch AMOLED display wit ... Read more »

Samsung has announced that a white version of their Samsung Galaxy Note smartphone has launched in the UK today, and the device will be available exclusively from UK retailer John Lewis.

Samsung have also said that the device will come with £250 worth of free music, films and e-books to the first one hundred customers, and it will stay exclusive with the retailer until February.

The white Samsung Galaxy note comes with the same specifications as the original which include a  5.3 inch Super AMOLED touchscreen display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 ... Read more »

It looks like we have some details on another new Android device that will be launched at MWC 2012 in Barcelona next month, this time from Sony, the Sony Xperia St25i Kumquat.

As you can see from the photo below the Sony Xperia Kumquat comes with the Sony Ericsson branding, although we suspect it will just feature the Sony branding when it is announced next month.

The device is rumored to feature a 3.5 inch touchscreen display and will also come with a dual core 1GHz processor and a 5 megapixel camera and the display is rumored to come with a 480 x 854 pixel resolution.

Unfortunately those are the only details we have so far, but as you can see from the photo it shares a similar design to that of the Sony Xperia S which was announced recently.

We suspect that we will see a few new Android smartphones from Sony at MWC 2012 next month, and from the looks o ... Read more »