Sim Free Mobile Phones

Owners of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 have reason to rejoice, as the Gingerbread Android OS update is starting to roll out for the device. Many handsets run Android Gingerbread these days, but it is almost a small miracle that an official update is being released for the original X10, as Sony Ericsson had intimated that the device would not receive any further updates after Android 2.1 The update delivers the new Sony Ericsson Launcher, as well as Facebook Inside for Xperia, as well as updated and new widgets, Adobe Flash support, USB Tethering and support for WiFi Hotspot. The update is available...

There are strong rumours going round that the successor to the Nexus One, a second Google Android device, is due to be released before Christmas exclusively through the Carphone Warehouse. Website City A.M. Is reporting that the device, unimaginatively dubbed the 'Nexus Two' will be in the shops in time for Christmas, and will be available to buy SIM free as well as on all networks, avoiding the one network tie in Google had with Vodafone for the Nexus One. The original Nexus One was manufactured by HTC, but despite much media coverage, actual sales of the Nexus One were moderate....

Nokia have announced the forthcoming release of the Nokia 5250, a budget range handset with a focus on music and social media. The Nokia 5250 runs on the Symbian Operating System, so although technically it could be classed as a smartphone, the lack of many top end features means it hardly fits the bill for such a description. The handset offers a large 2.8 inch resistive TFT touchscreen, supporting up to 16 million colours and with a pixel resolution of 360 x 640. As the device has a resistive touchscreen, it will operate with a stylus, and support handwriting recognition,...

Looking at the Nokia X6 8GB gives you a strong sense of deja vu, and if you've seen the previous versions of the Nokia X6, then you really have seen this before. The spec sheet on the X6 8GB is almost identical to the original Nokia X6, the only place where you're really going to see a difference is with the internal memory. The original X6 came with an impressive 32 GB of internal space, but there was no memory expansion slot. Shortly after, Nokia released the Nokia X6 16GB, with 16 GB internal memory and again, no memory slot....