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Nokia Asha 205 “Facebook phone” and $62 206 hands-on

, Nov 26th 2012 Discuss [0]

Nokia has revealed its first “Facebook phone”, the Nokia Asha 205, along with a colorful candybar, the Nokia 206, borrowing the Lumia colors for a budget market. The new Asha 205 features a full QWERTY keyboard and a dedicated Facebook button, as well as forty free EA games, while the 206 comes in the same black, cyan, magenta, yellow, and white as Nokia’s Lumia Windows Phone 8 handsets, and offers up to 47 days of standby time. Both the Asha 205 and the 206 are available in single- or dual-SIM versions, each keeping both SIMs active simultaneously, and feature Nokia’s new Slam file-swapping system.

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Samsung top US phone firm but Apple growing fastest claims research

, Aug 1st 2012 Discuss [0]

Samsung is the top mobile device brand of Q2 in the US, according to new research, while Android continues to dominate the smartphone market, though Apple's iOS is growing faster than Google's platform. Samsung cellphones comprised 25.6-percent of US device ownership between April and June 2012, comScore's research found, with LG in second place with 18.8-percent and Apple in third with 15.4-percent. However, it's not all good news for the Koreans, whose market share is headed in the wrong direction versus Apple's. Read The Full Story

Motorola GLEAM+ resurrects RAZR with low-key abilities

, Apr 4th 2012 Discuss [0]

Motorola has obviously decided the flip phone is due for a comeback, with the new Motorola GLEAM+ delivering some clamshell action with a bargain price tag. Eschewing Android in favor of featurephone simplicity, the GLEAM+ has a 2.8-inch 400 x 240 internal display and a sizable LED matrix display on the outside for the time and other pixelated status messages, and shaves half a millimeter off the original, iconic RAZR. Read The Full Story