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This gadget is called the Battery Boost. It comes from Sprint and is designed to recharge gadgets such as cell phones, Bluetooth headsets, MiFi devices or MP3 players as well as other small gadgets.

The device is quite small in capacity and appears to have been designed for emergency use as it provides about an hours worth of extra juice to make calls on a smartphone.

The Battery Boost is also a micro SD card reader and can be plugged in to a laptop or USB port to both read the microSD card installed, and charge up the internal battery. [Read more…]

The white iPhone 4 has been delayed a number of times since June 24. Last we heard was that it would be released “this year” with no specific time scale of when this year it would arrive.

It seems like one though has been smuggled out of the factory looking at some pictures found over at MIC Gadget. Before we get too carried away here though, it’s important to remember that some companies offer white iPhone 4 conversion kits although there have still been a few official white iPhone 4’s spotted here and there. [Read more…]

AT&T [T] has announced that the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 will be landing on AT&T as of August 15.

When launched, the Xperia X10 will cost $149.99 which includes a two-year service agreement on the minimum smartphone dataplan.

Technical spec wise, it has a 4 inch screen along with a 1GHz Snapdragon processor. GPS is built in along with an 8.1 megapixel camera with smile and face detection. An LED flash can be found on the back also. [Read more…]

The Nokia N8 was announced all the way back in April with the first hints of the new smartphone being found as early as March as well as even more details reaching back in to February.

All along we have been told to expect the end of August as the release date and in this instance, it seems Nokia [NOK] were exact in what they said as we hear now that the launch date in the UK will be August 26.

The information comes from a mobile phone retailer in the UK who called MobileFun who has the N8 listed on it’s site with an August 26 release date and a price tag of £419.95 inc VAT off contract we assume. [Read more…]

RIM has announced the BlackBerry Curve 3G (9300). The smartphone will come supplied with BlackBerry OS 5, but in the coming months an upgrade to OS 6 will be made available to download and update the device.

The smartphone is compatible with HSDPA networks, has a QWERTY keyboard, has built in Wi-Fi and GPS and can be used with microSD cards up to 32GB in capacity. [Read more…]

Saudi Arabia has carried through with it’s promise and has forced the three network providers to block access to BlackBerry Messaging. Yahoo! News is reporting today that a number of users over that way have confirmed that they are now unable to access the service that their smartphones were primarily designed to use.

The reasons the BlackBerry messaging service has been shut down was related to “security concerns”. Any of the three carriers now blocking the service would have been given a $1.3M fine. [Read more…]