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We’re still trying to piece together the Verizon Hub mystery — namely whether it’ll be available outside the realm of Verizon’s FiOS broadband customer base — but either way, we have some evidence here that it’ll play nice with the Verizon Wireless handset of your choice. The device was designed from the start to be [...]

Anyone hoping for another UIQ-based superphone can avert their eyes right now, but otherwise, hold on — Sony Ericsson might just be onto something with its upcoming G502. The sleek black candybar should freshen the dead center of SE’s lineup with a QVGA display, 2 megapixel camera, HSDPA, Memory Stick M2-expandable storage, and the NetFront [...]

While we twiddle our thumbs for these CDMA Curves to finally hit an American carrier or three, we thought we’d post some imagery for everyone to enjoy. Actually, nix “everyone” — only the diehard BlackBerry addicts are going to get into this. Don’t look over your shoulder, buddy, you know who you are. Yeah, you. [...]

We’d long since forgotten about Motorola’s UIQ-based Z8 kick slider — the introduction of the hotter, fancier Z10 pretty much sealed the deal for us there. Turns out Moto thinks there’s still life left in the unusual smartphone, though, and it’s taking an updated model to South Korea to prove it. The Z8m comes at [...]

LG’s KF750 was just announced official-like by the non-rioting folks at Lucky Goldstar. With it, we get the official specs courtesy of, uh, Photography Blog. Why is a site for digital photogs carrying a cellphone press release, you ask? Easy, this one’s got a 5 megapixel camera with face recognition and the ability to shoot [...]

Remember that spellbinding page-turner of a user guide for Motorola’s W755 that we brought you a while back? Of course you do — how could anyone forget? The anticipation of a new model in Moto’s W line of low- to midrange handsets is always nearly too much to bear for us, as we’re sure it [...]

Sprint contacted us today to let us know that it owns the exclusive North American rights to Qualcomm’s QChat PTT technology, which raised a very interesting question: what the heck is Verizon using, then? PhoneNews is suggesting that Big Red’s actually using an upgraded version of BREWChat, Qualcomm’s old-skool PTT system that had originally been [...]

Germany’s been one of the European countries protesting the hardest against the EU’s selection of DVB-H as the union’s mobile TV standard of choice — and for good reason, seeing how it already had a nice little chunk of cash sunk into T-DMB. We’re not sure if this is Germany’s version of passive-aggressive civil disobedience [...]

Ah ha! So this is what DISH Network was planning on doing with its recently-purchased swath of spectrum. Just under two months after analysts pondered what the firm was thinking throwing out bids for a smidgen of bandwidth — and not even a fortnight after the ICO G1 successfully launched in order to bring DVB-SH [...]

Looks like we might all be waiting just a few more weeks before we’re given the green light to descend into the next generation of push-to-talk nirvana (or hell, depending on your perspective). phoneArena is claiming that the national release of Sprint’s QChat-powered PTT system — and the phones to go along with it — [...]