While recent rumors have claimed that Huawei’s exciting Ascend D will begin shipping in July, the Chinese company is yet to announce where exactly its first quad-core smartphone will make its debut. It has confirmed, however, that it will be coming to the U.K. When asked by Pocket-lint whether the Ascend D would be available to U.K.

Well look what we have here: It looks an awful lot like the Samsung Galaxy Note has made an appearance on Sprint’s website. Neither Sprint nor Samsung have announced any intention to launch the 5.3-inch “phablet,” but our own Mark Hearn has heard mumblings that a launch is possible. Unfortunately it’s unbranded, so we can’t

To prepare Motorola Droid RAZR users for Ice Cream Sandwich, tutorial videos have hit the Web detailing what kind of experience users can expect once the update hits. We’re still not sure when exactly that’ll be — we thought we’d see it on April 4 —  but judging from the completeness of the video series,

Tethered car phone chargers to the grave! Chrysler announced today that it will be offering in-car cell phone and wireless device charging mats starting in July, coinciding nicely with the release of the new Dodge Dart. The charging mats will cost $199.99 plus cost of the installation by dealers through Mopar, Chrysler’s aftermarket parts and

LG is reportedly preparing a brand new device that it hopes will go toe-to-toe with Samsung’s Galaxy S III. The South Korea-based media outlet DDaily referred to the phone as a possible “Galaxy S III killer” and said that LG is currently calling the project “D1L.” The phone’s official name has not yet been decided upon,

AT&T launched two new Windows Phone devices today: the Nokia Lumia 900 and HTC Titan II are now available. You can grab the beautiful Lumia 900 in cyan or matte black for just $99 with a new two-year contract (a glossy white version will be available later this month), or the HTC Titan II for

LG’s Managing Director of Mobile Communications, Kwon Bong-suk, recently discussed the company’s plans to introduce a “thinking smartphone” that could automatically make adjustments to meet its user’s needs. Bong-suk provided an example where a user might set an alarm on his or her thinking smartphone and then head to bed; in the morning, should the phone

There has been a lot of chatter about Samsung’s Galaxy S III having a ceramic body, but it looks like Pantech has beaten Samsung to the punch with its brand new Vega Racer 2 smartphone. The Vega Racer 2 not only has a full ceramic body, but it also has a massive 4.8-inch 720p HD

HTC and Sprint unveiled the EVO 4G LTE during a press event last night — Sprint’s latest flagship phone and one of the first that will run on its brand new 4G LTE network. However, during a demo reel during the event, Sprint and HTC may have accidentally shown a new phone that’s in the

Just as promised back in early March, Asus will be launching its Padfone later this month. The Taiwanese company announced this morning that pre-orders for the device will begin tomorrow for a mid-April launch in Taiwan. If you want to get your hands on this device in the U.S., you’ll probably want to start saving

We just swung over to the demo stations at HTC and Sprint’s press even to grab hands-on photos and video of the brand new Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE. It’s an insanely beautiful phone, as you’ll see in the video, but the plastic area around the camera really attracts fingerprints and kind of turned us

We just scrambled over to the corner of HTC and Sprint’s press event and grabbed photos of the brand new EVO 4G LTE as fast as we could for you. The phone feels incredibly thin, despite offering a 2,000mAh battery and support for 4G LTE networks. I love the design, but really wish Sprint and

Sprint and HTC will take the stage in New York City during a press event Wednesday night where the two companies are expected to announce the EVO One. Just hours ahead of that announcement, however, images of the device were spilled out on to the Internet by Droid-Life. So far we’re seeing a black back

AT&T is set to launch Nokia’s flagship Lumia 900 device on April 8th, but we’ve just learned that our friends in Canada will also be able to purchase the phone in just a few days. According to a trusted source, Rogers will begin offering the Lumia 900 beginning on April 10th. The carrier is pricing

In addition to launching its own variant of the much anticipated Samsung Galaxy Nexus, it sounds as though Sprint has plans to bring another LTE-equipped device to market, dubbed the LG Fury. In coursework acquired by Engadget, Sprint employees are given explicit instructions on how to enable LTE on the as-of-yet unannounced LG device. No

Sprint just announced pre-orders will begin later this month for one of its first 4G LTE phones, the LG Viper. The Viper — first announced during CES — offers a 4-inch WVGA display, a 5-megapixel camera, a VGA front-facing camera for video chat, NFC, a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, a 1,700mAh battery, 50GB

Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update is so old we honestly had to look back to when it was officially announced before we wrote this story. As it turns out, however, Google officially launched ICS in October of last year, about six months ago. But even still, the operating system is only installed on

Motorola has announced this morning that the RAZR MAXX is set to shed its “DROID” branding and its LTE chip before making its debut in “select markets” across Europe and the Middle East next month. The LTE-equipped handset has been available in the U.S. since last November, where it has been impressing users with its

According to Canaccord Genuity analyst Mike Walkley, Apple’s iPhone 4S remained the top selling smartphone in the U.S. through last month, continuing its dominance since it was released last October. Walkley and his team found that the iPhone 4S was the best-selling smartphone at Verizon Wireless, AT&T and Sprint in March, while Samsung remained a

Sprint may be preparing the launch the Galaxy Nexus with full 4G LTE support as soon as April 22nd. The Verge obtained a leaked document from Walmart that claims its partner, Sam’s Club, will launch the Galaxy Nexus on April 22nd. Sprint has already confirmed the phone will support its 4G LTE network and will

Verizon Wireless’ LG Lucid Android smartphone is now available. We recently filmed an unboxing of the $80 phone and were blown away by the super fast 4G LTE speeds we saw in New York City. The device is also equipped with a 5-megapixel camera capable of recording 1080p video, a front-facing VGA camera for video

Verizon Wireless and Motorola may have a new DROID Bionic-branded product coming down the pipeline. A screen-shot obtained by DROID-Life shows an alleged internal Verizon system image that lists the DROID Bionic 2. Droid-Life does admit, however, that this very well could be a new Bionic model that will be sold without the included 16GB microSD card

Verizon Wireless recently sent us the brand new LG Lucid, an $80 Android 2.3 Gingerbread smartphone that will be available in stores beginning today. We’ve compiled an unboxing video for you, during which we noticed incredible 4G LTE speeds here in New York City. The Lucid also offers a stylish black and red back cover,

Android and iOS are currently dominating the U.S. mobile landscape — that much we already knew — but new data from Nielsen suggests that 91% of U.S. consumers who made a smartphone purchase during the past three months chose iOS or Android. 48% of those buyers chose an Android-powered smartphone, 43% bought an iPhone and

IDC said on Wednesday that nearly 916 million smart connected devices shipped last year, totaling more than $489 billion in revenues. The research firm includes PCs, tablets, smartphones and any connected gadget under its “smart connected device” umbrella, and it says it expects the number of shipments to double by 2016. Shipments of connected devices