BlackBerry Curve 8520, LG Shine II coming to AT&T

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

That successor to AT&T’s wildly popular LG Shine that we spied back in August has finally popped official today, becoming the Shine II (surprise, surprise). It’s a very evolutionary set — if you squint, you can’t see much difference from the original — but this might be a situation where it’s in AT&T’s best interest […]

Motorola Ruby (VE1) ditches weird spelling, not the RAZR look

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA

We’ll hand it to Moto in this place — it truly is admirable that it didn’t use all caps and no vowels to name a phone that’s so strikingly similar to the original RAZR, but we can’t help but doubt this thing’s ability to sell. The Motorola Ruby (or […]

Motorola’s RAZR Lúk is gilded, worthy of open letter

Monday, April 13th, 2009

Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, HSDPA

Apparently Motorola hasn’t deep-sixed the RAZR thing as we’ve just caught a glimpse of another version that’s oh so golden, white, and headed for Korea. The new RAZR features 7.2 Mbps HSDPA, a QVGA display, Bluetooth, video calling, 18k gold plating, and a design aesthetic that hearkens back to 2004. Otherwise, […]