TheCellularGuru’s Top 5 Hottest Phones for the Holidays

Now this won’t really be news to anyone except Canadians who want to unlock their newly-minted Bell Vibrant to be used on another provider, but it turns out that the device for whatever reason is not unlockable. There is a thread going on at Howardforums where the consensus seems to be that no company can [...]

BBC is reporting that the ban of BlackBerry service in Saudi Arabia has been lifted. Reports of devices not working for upwards of 4 hours have come in, while RIM has apparently found a solution that satisfies Saudi authorities. In an earlier statement, RIM made the statement that they “cannot accommodate any request for a [...]

As a Bold 9650 owner I have been following BBleaks pretty closely for a chance to get a leaked version of BlackBerry 6 onto my Bold. The last few days have been pretty interesting with lots of teaser tweets and even time frames for when the leak would be available. Unfortunately those leaks haven’t come [...]

Seriously? Ok, so we actually knew this was coming, but looking back at it, we didn’t realize how important this phone would be to the Canadian Android market once the iPhone 4 was released. And since Telus is wisely pricing this phone at a very cool $79.99 on a 3-year term, I have no doubt [...]

With the HTC EVO 4G and even the Motorola Droid getting Android 2.2 recently, we all know the Droid X is feeling a little left out. Today on Motorola’s support forum we got out first official word of an early September drop date for the update. An extra special fix is supposed to be mixed [...]

I was browsing App World about an hour ago and I couldn’t help but notice the ‘Newest’ apps page was flooded with eBooks. Since this whole slew of eBooks seemed to be from the same company, I figured I’d download one just to see what the UI was like. First of all, it’s very misleading that a lot [...]

Verizon peeps have all the luck. According to a leak by IntoMobile, the Samsung Gem will be a lower-cost version of the Fascinate, running Android 2.1, when it is released sometime soon. The Gem looks not-so-vaguely like the newly-released bada phone, the Samsung Wave, on which the company installed their own awful software onto some [...]

Whew, that was a close one. Just when we thought HTC’s Nexus One was gone for good, Google’s Developer Blog has announced that the phone will still be available for Android Developers to purchase for $529. You will of course need to be a developer to be eligible to purchase a Nexus One so perhaps [...]

Watch out RIM and Apple, the little green guy is knocking on your front door to claim the title of most sold smartphone operating system in US 2nd quarter of 2010. NPD is reporting that Android had 33% of US device sales followed by RIM with 28% and Apple with 22%. NPD is crediting HTC [...]

InsideBlackBerry has posted up some more screenshots of the upcomig WebKit browser, while going into detail with several features. Some of these features are pretty much common knowledge by now, and some not so much. Hit the jump to view the full post and see if there’s anything you may have missed>>