RIM’s new BlackBerry Bold smartphone arrived in North America yesterday. The Bold is a bit bigger & heavier than most previous BlackBerry models, but offers a larger display (480 x 320), works over 3G networks and supports 802.11a/b/g. 1GB onboard memory + up to 16GB on a media card. Specs are here.
The Bold has been [...]

Well the new Apple iPhone 3G went on sale today, reduced price and all. Demand seems strong, with ATT reporting most stores selling out. The 16-gigabyte version of the iPhone 3G is priced at $299.
Latest iPhone Sells Briskly, With Glitches - WSJ, July 11 2008

Here’s another pic from CommunicAsia 2008, this one of someday-to-be-available Garmin nüvifone. GPS device maker Garmin announced the nüvifone earlier this year, describing it as a touchscreen phone with navigation and a web browser. Many consider the nüvifone to be a mobile phone with added GPS, not realizing that the thing is actually a GPS [...]

CommunicAsia 2008 just ended. Most of the products shown at the annual Information and Communications Technology expo had been pre-announced, including the Samsung Soul mobile phone, shown above. Most reviews of the SGH-U900 as it’s also known, have been quite favorable, praising as they do, the 5MP camera and the user interface … so favorable in fact that [...]

Pocket-Lint reviews the new E71 from Nokia and gives the mobile phone a generous rating of 9/10. They liked the small form-factor (114×57×10mm and 127 grams) the metal frame, the fact that it has HSDPA (3.6 Mbps), Wi-Fi, and a 3.2 megapixel camera as well as a QWERTY keyboard. They also liked the “large bright [...]

Fujitsu introduces their new model F706i waterproof (30 minutes at 1 meter) phone. Features include 1-Seg TV & a 2 megapixel camera.
Fujitsu Unleashes Its New Waterproof Wonder! - Akihabara news, 2008-06-18

The Times compares the new iPhone 3G to five of its touchscreen competitors, and finds that the LG Secret KF750 is just as good.
The article awards 5 stars to both the iPhone 3G and the Secret. Runner-ups include the Samsung Tocco and the HTC Touch Diamond with 4 stars, with the Palm Centro and Sony [...]

Techno-guru Walt Mossberg reviews the soon-to-be available Samsung Instinct mobile phone and deems it to be merely “ok”. Walt says the Instinct lacks the iPhone’s greatest strength namely its software.
He concludes by stating that “Samsung’s Instinct, a clone of Apple’s iPhone, doesn’t measure up”, and for good measure, adds that it’s “no iPhone”.
Samsung’s Instinct Doesn’t [...]

Apple today announced their much-anticipated next-gen iPhone. The iPhone 3G as it’s called, is both faster and cheaper than the original model that it replaces.
Walt Mossberg lists the good points of the iPhone 3G as being speed (about 2x faster) price (about half) and the 3rd party apps. On the down side he knocks [...]

iPodObserver speculates on what the forthcoming iPhone might look like.  Basically a shiny black plastic back replaces the current shiny metallic back.
Not big news, but other sources say the second-gen iPhone will have GPS, and a flush headphone jack. Dimensions to be 115×63×12.5mm, as compared to 115×61×11.6mm for the current model. And have 3.5G. 
Rumor: New [...]