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Nokia Twist

I don't know about you, but I have always wanted to twist a phone into different positions. Er, did I say phone? Verizon's new $100 Nokia 7705 Twist won't even cost too much to do it. Besides having a swiveling screen that opens to a full QWERTY keypad and a handy mirror on the back for checking food in your teeth, the square sized phone is pretty much your standard messaging phone though it does have a 3 megapixel camera (that can also record video). You will want to pick up a MicroSD card to...

Verizon grabs HTC Touch Pro2

The surprising is in the prices it right at $200 on contract C'mon folks, say it with us now: "Finally!" After T-Mobile USA and Sprint decided to charge two arms and three-quarters of a leg for HTC's fancy-but-not-world-changing Touch Pro2, Verizon Wireless has stepped in to show those other guys how to price a phone appropriately. Big Red's version of the WinMo 6.1-packin' handset will be available starting tomorrow (just as we'd heard) for $199.99 on contract, though that is after a $100...

Nokia putting foot down on Maemo

Google and Apple have both managed to wrest a great deal of control over the mobile user experience from carriers over the past couple of years cheers to that, by the way and now Nokia's decided it wants a piece of that action with the introduction of Maemo 5 and the N900, which it says will be free of the branding that Symbian products frequently get subjected to. It makes total sense that Nokia would be looking to come play in that rarified air that Android, iPhone OS, and webOS are all...

Sony Ericsson Xperia X2

Sony Ericsson's Xperia X2 could very well be the last Windows Mobile-powered smartphone from the company, despite rumors swirling around that the company has one last Windows Mobile phone up its sleeves which might not see the light of day eventually. The whole reason for dropping support for the Windows Mobile platform would be a poor sales forecast, which means Sony Ericsson can only turn to two viable alternatives at this point in time - Android and/or Symbian S60. Is this the death knell...

Philips Sticks Now With 16GB GoGear Muse PMP

Think you've seen this one before? Close, but no cigar. Philips' GoGear Muse doesn't deviate much from the path that has been chosen for it (and fittingly so, might we add), boasting a predictably glossy motif, 16GB of internal storage space and a 3-inch display. As it overtakes the Opus for the company's top-of-the-line player, it also gains support for BMP, GIF, PNG, OGG, APE, Real Video and Real Audio formats, and just in case you're curious, it'll also handle those ultra-rare "MP3" things...