HTC have announced their latest US smartphone, the HTC S743, an 850/1900 MHz version of the S740 available in Europe and which we reviewed here. The handset runs Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard, and while lacking a touchscreen has both a numeric keypad and slide-out full QWERTY keyboard.


Samsung and Yahoo! have announced the 2009 availability of the Yahoo! Widget Engine, a set of internet-enabled feeds that can be viewed on select models from Samsung’s HDTV range. The fifth-generation of the platform, Widget Engine now has access to Flickr, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Weather and Yahoo! Finance, as well as USA Today, YouTube, eBay and Showtime. Connectivity is either via standard ethernet or optional USB WiFi dongle.









