With Mobile World Congress (MWC) set to take place in four weeks’ time, it’s probably about time that we came across a juicy new smartphone leak online. How about the new HTC Ville? A sneaky YouTuber has gotten his hands on a working prototype of the soon-to-be announced HTC Ville running Ice Cream Sandwich and …

Nokia Australia today announced its “return to the Australian smartphone market”, with plans to start selling the Nokia Lumia 800 in Australia in March. (Credit: Nokia) The new handset will be for sale through “Optus, Telstra, Vodafone and all major retailers”, according to Nokia’s press release, though pricing wasn’t mentioned. The handset will be released in four colour variants: black, …

Telstra is in the testing phase for a major firmware update for the HTC Velocity, which will upgrade the Android platform on the handset to the latest version of Android, known as Ice Cream Sandwich. (Credit: HTC) Telstra Director of Device Management Andrew Volard confirmed last night that the telco is testing the Ice Cream Sandwich update on the new …

We’ve managed to enjoy some extended face time with the new Galaxy Nexus since it was launched in Australia in the weeks before Christmas last year, and we’ve grown quite attached to Google’s new Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. Here are our five favourite parts. The differences between Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) and Gingerbread (Google’s previous version of Android for …

Telstra today unveiled its first new handset for 2012, launching the Samsung Galaxy Y into its prepaid range. (Credit: Telstra) With a 3-inch display, Telstra has dubbed the Galaxy Y “Baby Android” in its announcement, though it isn’t that much smaller than the currently available LG Optimus Spirit, and is marginally larger than the Telstra Smart Touch. The Galaxy Y …

Chinese OEM Huawei is claiming that its Ascend P1 S smartphone is the “world’s slimmest”, slinking past Motorola’s super-slim Razr, with a chassis of 6.68mm at its slimmest point. The Huawei Ascend P1 S should be the thinnest phone in Australia when it launches in April. (Credit: Huawei) Huawei isn’t content with this impressive feat of design and engineering, however. …

Electronics manufacturers Samsung and HTC have been name checked in a US analyst’s report suggesting that BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) could soon license its BlackBerry operating system to interested third-party hardware companies. A Samsung tab running BlackBerry 10 OS may already be on the drawing board. (Credit: Samsung/CBSi) Boy Genius Report is crediting industry analyst Peter Misek with …

Not unlike an iPhone launch, the major Aussie telcos have waited until the eleventh hour before announcing pricing for the new Android flagship Galaxy Nexus, with Telstra selling the device as of tomorrow. (Credit: Google) All three major telcos will be offering the Galaxy Nexus on 24-month contract terms, with Vodafone also including the handset on 12-month contracts with a …

Electronics giant Panasonic has announced it will enter the smartphone fray in 2012, planning to launch at least one smartphone in parts of Europe and Asia. This unnamed handset will be the first Panasonic smartphone in Europe. (Credit: Panasonic) Shown in the image above, the unnamed Panasonic smartphone will sport a 4.3-inch OLED display with a qHD resolution, and will …

The smartphone race is so much more complex than the one-horse race it was the last time Apple released an “S” version two years ago. This year has been chock-a-block with new smartphones pushing the boundaries of what we can expect our phones to do, and how fast we can expect them to do it. If you’re planning on shopping …