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Filed under: Handsets, LG, Bell Mobility, CDMA

If “function follows form” is your mantra, listen up — especially if you happen to be in Canada. LG’s curiously-named Wine has come to the land of polar bears, maple syrup, and adorable baby seals, offering very little in the way of bells or whistles (seriously, we’re talking about a 1.3-megapixel camera and Bluetooth 1.2 in this place) but keeping the style dial turned to 11 — and hey, at least it’s still got a QVGA main display and GPS packed in there somewhere. It’ll run you $79.95 at this time on a three-year contract in your choice of black or the continuously tasteful gold.

[Via MobileSyrup]

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Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA

With Sprint snagging the vast majority of the WiMAX limelight of late, we aren’t plan to complain with a similar network halfway across the globe yanking it back. Out of absolutely nowhere comes HTC’s first WiMAX-enabled handset, the sure-to-be-delightful T8290. Reportedly, this bugger packs a 3.8-inch 800 x 480 resolution display, 802.11g WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, GSM and WiMAX radios and is expected to launch soon on Russia’s Yota. Granted, we can’t take this as hard truth or anything Truly yet, but the images that reside in the read link are more than convincing. Oh, and HTC — given that you’re passing on the US with the Touch HD, do you think it’d be possible to get this over in this place for use with XOHM? We’d really, really appreciate it.

[Via Slashphone, thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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Filed under: Handsets, HTC, T-Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, Android

Oh sure, you’ve already read over our (and Ryan Block’s) brief one-day impressions of T-Mobile’s G1, but one lucky (lucky!) user over at AndroidCommunity has been able to handle one for more than just a few hours. As a precious gift to the world, he’s penned a nice list of pros and cons along with a Q&A, and it seems that the “review” is actually growing with time. Right from the top, he notes that the G1 is lke a “SideKick on massive steriods,” albeit one with a minty fresh OS. Speaking of, he also states that the handset “doesn’t run as smoothly as you would think,” asserting that some of the applications “suttered” upon opening. We’re also told that it requires a reboot from time to time just to keep things humming along, but we’re hoping all of these quirks are just part of the Rev. A rigamarole. It’s glaringly obvious that the user adores Android (and the phone, too), but we can’t help but hope these niggles he speaks of are addressed in short order.

[Thanks, Oscar]

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