The first BlackBerry Bold 9000 seduced us with its gorgeous screen and wealth of smart phone features, but it was a beast. RIM’s flagship phone chunked out at 114mm tall and 136g. But the Bold’s been working out and today, RIM launched the Bold 9700 — otherwise known as the Onyx or the Bold 2 …

More exciting TV news from JVC! The LT-42WX70 forms the centrepiece of a modular home entertainment system with one eye on the photographer, designed to give you the freedom to move all the kit around as you want it. JVC calls it ‘layout free’, which doesn’t quite make sense, but we’ll let that go. JVC reckon the WX70 will be …

HELSINKI–It will take years and a technology “breakthrough on multiple fronts” before the battery lives of smartphones will reach “good” levels, according to the head of Nokia’s research center, Henry Tirri. By “good,” Tirri meant phones that can last on a weekly power charge, which will support battery utilization closer to what basic phone models require today, he said at …

Motorola has released yet another rugged phone, and it’s called the Quantico. Like the Motorola Tundra, it won’t win any design awards for its rough-and-tumble exterior. It’s encased in a shell made of chrome, glass, and rubber that is military-certified to withstand a 30-minute dip in up to a meter of water, extreme pressure, temperature, dust, shock, vibration, and rain. …

Orange sold 30,000 iPhones on its first day selling the Apple phone. The figure was claimed as a record in a tweet by Conor Maples, a member of the Orange marketing team. He also trumpeted the success of the Orange Wednesdays iPhone app. We contacted O2, but it refused to reveal sales figures in case share prices are affected. An …

Motorola is looking to sell its business for TV set-top boxes and network equipment for about $4.5 billion, according to a Wall Street Journal report Wednesday. The newspaper cites people familiar with the matter who say Motorola is in the early stages of finding a buyer for the business unit. Potential buyers include private-equity firms and competing equipment makers. Motorola …

Last week, we received comments from Intel regarding an iPhone sync glitch with certain PCs that use a new Intel P55 chipset and Windows 7 64-bit. On Friday, motherboard manufacturer Gigabyte Technology, a popular motherboard maker for PC hobbyists, issued a BIOS update that resolves the problem for some of these users who haven’t been able to sync their iPhones. …

T-Mobile Tap T-Mobile T-Mobile is making good on its promise to release its new phones from the fall CTIA show by November. Last week, the carrier put the Nokia 3711 on sale, and Wednesday it offers the T-Mobile Tap. The Tap is the first Huawei phone for T-Mobile. Its touch-screen design resembles a fair number of other T-Mobile phones, including …

Vodafone has entered the Crystal Maze with the 533 Crystal phone. It’s a pretty standard pay as you go handset, apart from the fact that it’s bedecked with 126 Swarovski crystals. At least it’s not pink. The 533 packs a 1.3-megapixel camera with 4x zoom, FM radio and Bluetooth. You know a phone is light on features when the specs …

The iPhone is the most popular and well-specified smart phone in the world. Like it or not, Apple knows how to make a product that’s simple to use and well-loved by consumers. And where Apple goes, everyone else will soon follow — as soon as the iPhone gained traction, Google announced its Android platform and Palm started work on the …