As video has been released which gives us our first look at HTC’s new Sense 3.5, the new UI is expected to ship with the HTC Bliss which we have been hearing about over the last few weeks.

The video below shows us the HTC Sense 3.5 in action, which include a new lock screen and animations, plus a new range of widgets, and the UI looks simpler than the current HTC Sense 3.0.

We know that the new HTC Bliss will come with the HTC Sense 3.5, it is also expected to launch with the HTC Vigor and the HTC Holiday, which we have seen recently.

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Samsung recently announced the new Samsung Galaxy W smartphone, and now some photos have appeared online of a white version of the Samsung Galaxy W, which you can see below.

The Samsung Galaxy W features a 1.4GHz processor, and will also feature a 5 megapixel camera which can shoot HD video in 720p, Android Gingerbread 2.3, and a 3.7 inch Super LCD display with Samsung’s TouchWiz UI.

We still dont have any pricing information as yet on the new Samsung Galaxy W, as soon as we get some more details we will let you guys know.

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Samsung unveiled three new smartphones late Monday. The Wave 3, Wave M and Wave Y will all be powered by the company's bada OS. "We’ve produced easy-to-use smartphones that will inspire the market,” said JK Shin, president and head of Samsung’s mobile communications business.

News first appeared about a new smartphone device from Samsung last week after information was spotted buried inside the Korean company’s own Android app made for the forthcoming IFA conference. And now the confirmation is here.

In a post late Monday on the company’s official global blog, not one but three new smartphones were announced – the Wave 3, the Wave M and the Wave Y.

All three devices will run on the company’s bada 2.0 platform, which "brings together a wide variety of new capabilities including multi-tasking, Wi-Fi Direct, voice recognition and Near Field Co ... Read more »

Samsung bumps up the Galaxy S II with an LTE and overall-improved version.

Samsung and Apple have something of a history. The two have been direct mobile competitors, and Samsung’s Galaxy smartphone and tablet lineup has arguably been the most capable rival to Apple’s iOS ecosystem. We’ve recently seen their battle taken to the legal level in various sordid patent litigations—and of course, there’s the fact that Samsung has provided component parts for Apple.

So it should come as no surprise that Samsung’s latest Galaxy S handset is likely to go head-to-head with the long-awaited iPhone 5. And while the iPhone has more fervent fanboys on its side, Samsung is trying to outfit the latest Galaxy S with something to steal a little of that attention. At the IFA Berlin trade show, the company announced that in addition to the Galaxy S II, it will introduce the Galaxy S II LTE. In addition ... Read more »

Nokia's developer network has been compromised, with members' personal information falling into attackers' hands.

Mobile giant Nokia has acknowledged a database used by its online developer community had been hacked, with a significant number of developer forum members’ personal information potentially falling into attackers’ hands. The attack used SQL injection—basically, embedding SQL commands in a form field or another entry point that get executed inappropriately by the database. According to Nokia, personal information like birthdates, email addresses, URLs, and instant messaging handles may have been compromised. However, the company says no passwords or credit card details were compromised, and no other Nokia accounts members may have outside the developer forums would have been effected.

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We have been hearing more and more about Sony’s new Android tablets the S1 and S2, and now the guys over at Engadget have got some more information on the Sony S2 tablet.

According to the report the Sony S2 will be called the Sony Tablet P when it launches next month, and it will feature dual 5.5 inch multi-touch displays, and with come with 512mb of RAM, 4GB of storage with a 2GB SD card included, 4G and WiFi connectivity, plus an NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor.

As soon as we get the full specifications on the new Sony Tablet P, including exactly when it will be available and how much it will retail for we will let you guys know.

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The Samsung Galaxy S II was expected to launch in the US today, the 29th of August, and the event was taking place in New York, Samsung have now decided to change the launch date to the 30th of August.

We heard last week that Verizon may not be carrying the new Samsung Galaxy S II in the US, so we guess this will be confirmed tomorrow one way or another.

The Samsung Galaxy S II has been extremely popular in Europe and Asia, and we suspect it will be very popular in the US, we recently got our hands on the new Galaxy S II, have a look at our Samsung Galaxy S II Review to see what we thought of it.

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We have been hearing rumors that the Motorola Droid Bionic would launch on the 8th of September, and now it looks like this will be the official launch date, as a Motorola twitter account has confirmed the 8th of September as the launch date.

Motorola has now also listed the Droid Bionic on their homepage, although it looks like the full official specifications are missing for now.

From what we heard previously, the Droid Bonic will come with Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread, a 4.3 inch qHD touchscreen display with a resolution of 540 x 960 pixels, plus CDMA, EVDO and 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, plus Bluetooth 2.1+EDR.

There will also be a 1GHz TI OMAP 4430 processor, plus 1GB of RAM, and 32GB of built in storage, there is also a microSD card slot which can take up to 32GB cards, plus an 8 megapixel camera on the back with an LED flash, auto focus and 4x zoom, the camera will be cap ... Read more »

Some of our readers are probably not old enough to remember the giant cellphones from the 80s, if you have seen the new Wall Street movie then  you will know what they look like as Gordon Gekko has one.

Now you can turn your iPhone into a retro looking mobile phone with this fun 80s iPhone case, and as you can see from the photo below it isn’t exactly one of the most streamline cases for the iPhone.

The 80s iPhone case will be available shortly for about $20, you can find out more details over at the companies Facebook page.

We recently heard a rumor that Samsung would be producing the next Nexus smartphone for Google, called the Samsung Nexus Prime, which was confirmed on Twitter by Samsung, and then the tweet was removed shortly after it was posted.

Now more evidence of the Samsung Nexus Prime’s existence has appeared, as it has now received WiFi certification as the Samsung GT-I9250.

We don’t have any confirmed specifications on the Samsung Nexus Prime, but what we heard previously was that it is

expected to come with a 4.5 inch display with a 1280 x 720 resolution and it will come with Google Android Ice Cream Sandwich.

Other rumored specifications include either a dual core 1.2GHz or 1.5Ghz processor, 1GB of RAM and an advanced five

megapixel camera that will be able to record full High Definition video in 1080p.

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