Designer Amosu’s limited edition (3 total) Curva Blackberry is enclosed in solid gold, has 4,459 diamonds at 28.43 carats, and lists for £125,000. More »

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From Htcyou: Here is an obscure one: small, privately owned Saygus unveiled its VPhone, which is the world’s first two-way video calling smartphone, and it packs some pretty good specifications as well –including a 3.5″ (800 x 480) LCD, Marvell PXA310 800MHz CPU, 5 megapixel camera, and a full QWERTY keypad; it even has a modem! Verizon will be carrying this in May. More »

From Htcyou: At one time, Dell’s Mini 5 was thought to be just another tablet netbook, but last week, it was confirmed to be the world’s largest smartphone. With a 5 inch LCD, the Mini 5 is rumored to be a T-Mobile and an AT&T;Android 2.0 (or 2.1 or above) phone that - all options included - could sell for upwards of $1,000. More »

At Mobile World Congress, Samsung announced its own operating system, Bada, which is powering the upcoming Wave smartphone. More »

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From Htcyou: One feature rich smartphone that has not gotten much coverage is South Korean OCOSMOS’ OCS5, which is touting some pretty amazing specifications for an obscure (at least in the West) company. More »

No matter what haters might think of Steve Jobs, who can reasonably deny that Flash is slow, buggy, and a security hazard? Jobs allegedly deprecated Adobe recently, calling the company “lazy.” The Apple CEO is arguably justified in leaving Flash support off the iPhone and the forthcoming iPad. More »

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From Htcyou: AdMob statistics show that in the fourth quarter of 2009, the iPhone and Android smartphone operating systems accounted for 67% of all online advertisement views. Android marketing share quadrupled from 4% in Q1 to 16% by the end of last year. HTC’s drastically increased spending is part of the reason for Android’s rise. More »

It seems that the hyped up Google Nexus One smartphone that was recently released is not receiving as much love as Google had expected. Customer complaints are starting to roll in about the inconsistent 3G connectivity, issues regarding the touch screen, and the poor customer service to deal with it all. The main root of the customer service issue has to do with the fact that the Nexus One can only be purchased through the Google online store and not at any T-Mobile retail locations. More »

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With the release of Verizon’s “Droid” device comes the start of a new smartphone revolution. 2010 will no doubt see a large influx in the number of Android OS based phones being introduced into the market. Here’s a list of recently released and upcoming Android phones: More »

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From Htcyou: No, smartphone owners are not being attacked by Greeks, but by trojans that mimic what dialler scams did back in the 56K modem days. “Swapi.B” is a pervasive trojan, which masks as a video file or some harmless program. Usually, the trojan is downloaded from pornographic sites. Once run, Swapi.B sends out premium SMS messages, and the smartphone user is nailed with a hefty long distance/premium text message charge. Crooks once used this con to prey on unsuspecting modem users back in the late 1990s. More »

It has been rumored that the Sony has abandoned its scheduled February 10th release date of the Ericsson Xperia X10 and will begin shipping preorders out to the UK on January 18th. Either way, this is a phone that I am excited to see, and it ranks #1 on my “to buy” list for this year. More »

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Hello, Earthling. If you are indigenous to this planet, then you already know at least a little bit about smartphones. I think that in 2010, Google, HTC, and Android will be three of the biggest players in technology –that is why I am so thrilled about the launch of a new site dedicated to Android: HTCYou!

One day, almost everyone will probably use smartphones daily. HTCYou is designed to be a resource for Android and HTC owners and fans to gather together as a community, sharing and learning. More »

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As you probably know, Google is now the biggest name in technology. Few other corporate entities have managed to wriggle their ways into the urban dictionary like Google has. Sure, “Tweet” have become a verb too, but it has always been a real word, now merely redefined. Do you really “Yahoo?” I do not. Here is my list of goals for Google to achieve in its way to global rule: More »

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“In my 28 years of attending the CES and participating in it and being a part of it and running it for most of that time, I can honestly say there will be more innovation at this show than any one in history,” Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, said. More »

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You know what they say about people with huge phones. They probably have big ears. Especially big if you’re talking the world’s largest Nexus One phone that’s hanging out in the Google HQ lobby. Worth $600,000 USD, the world’s largest Nexus One phone has the same specs as the original CAD model, just 12 times bigger, with a 1920×1080 46-inch LED-backlit display. Personally, I think I’d make more use out of a standard human-sized Nexus One phone. More »

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