Sony unveiled the first members of their 2012 handset lineup back at CES, emphasizing the Xperia Ion for AT&T and its international brother the Xperia S. In The phone will be released with a set of features catering to the needs of Japanese mobile users as the Xperia NX, which has been announced for a [...]

The folks at NEC, in partnership with their main carrier partner NTT DoCoMo (Japan) have announced another good looking Android with another weird name. It’s the MEDIAS ES N-05D and it’s as thing as any phone will be – 6.7mm thin. The device also has a 4.3 inch 720pHD display, an 8 megapixel Exmor R [...]

It’s all falling into place. Google has made public the official sign-up page for the Galaxy Nexus. You can sign up to be notified about pricing and availability information when they’re available. There’s also a quick gallery of new Ice Cream Sandwich features as well as Galaxy Nexus features to look at. Nothing too in-depth, [...]

NTT Docomo may have jumped the gun a bit in tweeting that they’ll be one of the first to carry the phone currently known as the Nexus Prime / Galaxy Nexus, but failed to reveal anything of real substance beyond an already expected timeframe. Still, the shock sent tweetwaves around the web as interested onlookers [...]

Battery technology has long been the subject of criticism toward OEMs. Battery life simply isn’t where we need it to be. Feature phones can go days with moderate use without needing to be charged. That’s the thing, though – we’re all into smartphones here. And these phones are just way too powerful to last more [...]

If one of your gripes with current Android tablets is how they wouldn’t be able to stand up to your active lifestyle well, Fujitsu may have something in the works for you. It’s called the Arrows Tab (F-01D) and this bad boy could be the world’s first dust/water proof rugged Honeycomb tablet when released next [...]

Love it or hate, Android is no stranger when it comes to UI’s. We first began seeing this from manufacturers like HTC who wanted to offer more features outside of stock Android and further differentiate themselves from their competitors by offering an enhanced user experience. Soon after Motorola jumped on the badwagon with Motoblur and [...]

It’s been a long, long time since we’ve visited Google’s phone portal (which once served as the storefront for the now-discontinued Nexus One) where they showcase the hundreds of different Androids available for many different carriers around the world. When it first began they only showcased the newest handful of devices from America’s major carriers [...]

Were intrigued by this device. Not because it has amazing internal specs (though those aren’t bad by any stretch of the imagination), but because it’s so freaking thin. It’s like the Hollywood diva of the mobile industry, throwing its guts up to be as thin as it can be in hopes that some googley-eyed man [...]

So Apple’s iPhone 4 was introduced as the world’s thinnest smartphone, then LG vowed to trump them with the LG Optimus Black. And now NEC’s getting into this aggressive shoving contest: the NEC Medias is just 7.7mm thin. To compare, the Galaxy S 2 is 8.49mm, the Optimus Black is 9.2mm, and the iPhone 4 [...]

The United States might be the land of the free, but we’ve yet to earn freedom for many of the smartphones and Android phones in Asia and Europe that we would otherwise Desire (see what I did there?). It only takes a few specs to quickly put the Toshiba Regza near the top of that [...]

We just saw yesterday that Sony Ericsson is going above and beyond the call of multi-touch with the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc, but lest you forget, the company also decided after a long period of waffling that they would indeed implement multi-touch support into the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10. If you recall, that phone was [...]

Hello, Concrete! Last week we told you that NTT DOCOMO was poised to get the Galaxy S in late October and the Galaxy Tab in March 2011. Great news: NTT DOCOMO has issued a press release (what’s more concrete than that) announcing the Galaxy S in late October and Galaxy Tab in late November. I’m [...]

The Samsung Galaxy S has yet to hit the land of the rising sun in any fashion since its debut, but that may be changing as we’ve learned NTT DoCoMo will be testing an Android-based eReader service using the Samsung Galaxy S and the Xperia X10 in late October. This is far form concrete confirmation, [...]

Sharp is bringing another Android MID to Japan, this time en route to NTT DoCoMo. The LYNX SH-10B has a lot in common with the earlier ISO1, including a 5.3MP rear camera and 4.3MP front-facing camera, 5-inch screen, and full QWERTY keyboards in a clamshell design. On the connectivity side the SH-10B features Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, [...]

Let’s face it: no one was all the impressed with the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10. No multi-touch, Android 1.6, and interface issues all seemed to add up to an all around sad Android from SE. Then again, apparently no one in Japan reads Android blogs, as Barclay Capital is reporting that the X10 — known [...]

If you’re familiar with the electronics company Sharp – it may be because they produce you’re television. But little did you probably know, Sharp is also the largest manufacturer of mobile phones in Japan. But they’ve got plenty of competition, so to keep their edge over the likes of Panasonic, Mitsubishi, Kenwood, Toshiba, NEC, Denso, [...]

NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s largest mobile operator and the twentieth in the world with 53 million subscribers, is a founding member of the Open Handset Alliance. So far though, we haven’t heard a peep from them in terms of Android offerings. What gives? I contacted NTT DoCoMo who confirmed that they will be releasing an Android [...]

The Nikkei business daily broke, Reuters reported and Phandroid is further relaying that DoCoMo – Japan’s largest mobile carrier – is jointly creating an Android based handset for release in 2009. They’re teaming up with manufacturer KTF, a company of which they have 10% ownership. Details on the potential/possible/probable handset are sparse… or perhaps non-existent [...]