Sure, you've had the oppertunity to get a Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX for Verizon from Amazon for just $199.99 since January. But what if for some reason you simply don't want to purchase it from the well known online retailer? What if you absolutely must get it from Verizon itself?

Well then, good news for you personally. Big Red(Verizon Wireless) has decided to cut the purchasing price of the DROID RAZR MAXX by $100 too, now finally matching Amazon's pricing. So yes, $199.99 is perhaps not you'll need to pay. You will need to pay the newly added $30 upgrade charge.  Provided you agree to signing a brand new two-year contract, needless to say.

If you value life of the battery above the rest in a smartphone (including timely software updates), don't mind Verizon as the carrier, and would like to get a pretty high-end device too - the RAZR MAXX is it. It's the only it, actually, at this moment. And hopefully it's going to signify the start of a trend (of phone makers putting more focus on battery capacity), and won't be relegated to the history books as merely another niche offering. We'll see.

TECH SPECS

HARDWARE

Thickness 0.35 inches
Form factor Slab
Primary orientation Portrait
Color Black

DISPLAY

Screen size (diagonal) 4.3 inches
Technology Super AMOLED

CONNECTIVITY

Wi-Fi Yes

PROCESSOR

Clock speed 1.2 GHz
Number of cores 2

MEMORY

RAM size 1 GB

SOFTWARE

Operating system Android
Skin Motorola

BATTERY

Quoted use time 17.6 hr

Mo Chen

Editor-In-Chief
YouMobile, Inc

So, if you own unbranded versions of the Galaxy S II without the subsidy of a network have had a frustrating time, cause Three, Vodafone and O2 network users somehow ended up getting the Android 4.0 update first. And that's not how it usually works.

But now it's time for unbranded models to receive the update, with Samsung UK confired that the Android 4.0 is now out for the "XEU" versions of the Galaxy S II to enjoy. Here's Samsung's statement...

"Samsung UK has been working hard over the last few weeks to get Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) rolled out to all our Galaxy S II customers.So, we can confirm that ‘XEU/sim-free' and all network upgrades are now complete except for Orange and T-Mobile which will follow as soon as possible, pending software testing and approvals. Thanks again for your patience."

It also tell us that it will arrive soon for Orange and T-Mobile users as well.

And world gonna be at peace once again. Until this time next year, when the S III owners gonna be mad about not having Android 5.0. And so the wheel turns, as it ever did.

Mo Cheng

Editor-In-Chief
YouMobile, Inc

One of the most popular android apps in the market today, facebook for android is getting an update today.  Please head over to Google Play android app market to get your update.

Share and stay connected with your friends with the Facebook for Android app. Facebook for Android helps you connect with your friends and share on the go. Upload a photo, keep up with friends' photos and status updates, look up a phone number, and more - right from your Android device.

What's in this version:

• Navigate anywhere, fast: Get to your groups, apps, pages, and settings with a single press

• Search and you will discover: Look through friends, subscribers, apps, and pages

• See your friends tags on pictures and zoom: New photo viewing experience

• Faster notifications: Get alerted in real time with new push notifications

• Games & Apps: Play games and access your favorite apps on the go

• Access to mobile timeline (If you already have a timeline)

• Access to friend lists and subscriptions

Via Android Market

Mo Cheng

Editor-In-Chief

If you don't like any one current keyboards on the market for your smart phone, then you should check out SiiNE keyboard.  

Siine. A sweet new experience of texting just like you talk. It´s not just about speed, its about having personality. Also gives a clock and calendar in your keyboard for typing times.  Be patient, it takes a serious amounts of get used to a fresh idea like this. Siine is a small team and free so be generous with star.

In the event you create a good set of siines, send them in to hi@siine.com and they may post them in the gallery for other people to choose. The best "goodnight" siine wins a spot in our next release! We love to see your skill with it. Siine the brand new dynamic keyboard app gives you a great keyboard, but with extra, brilliant features that will make texting fast and fun.

Siine offers you shortcut icons called "Siines" for typing frequent phrases in a couple of taps. Ignore typing letter by letter and customize your keyboard with your own personal style and slang. Siine works together with e-mail, Facebook, WhatsApp, chat, Twitter or anywhere you have to type on your own phone! Look it over, experiment, of course, if you enjoy it we like getting some stars as well as your feedback.

Siine keyboard fully supports all Android devices from 2.2 including all tablets and Android 4, Frozen goodies Sandwich (ICS). Compatible with Android ICS Accessibility features for your partially sighted.

Here's some of the Siine Features

• Shortcuts - Fully-customizable icons for super-fast shortcuts for greetings for example "Hey man, how's it going?" to "Cool, talk to you soon"

• A built-in Clock and Calendar allows you to text about time and dates incredibly easy before!

• Stress Message screen for when you're in a rush. Text "Sorry, can't talk now. Phone you right back" with a couple taps with the keyboard.

•  Slang Sets - Get cool add-on slang sets such as Street, Aussie and Flirting. "Waazzupp?? Holla at me yo!"

•  Personalized Emoticons - Love Emoticons? Siine enables you to create your own!

•  Sexy Delete - Delete text fast with all the wiggle of one's finger - ohh la la!

Mo Cheng

Editor-In-Chief

The Nokia Asha 302 is currently available in the UK. The first operator to stock it is Three of UK. The Nokia Asha 302 is among the three new Nokia Asha-branded S40 feature phones announced a week ago in Barcelona during Mobile World Congress 2012. It was leaked once before that, and it's a cheap QWERTY candybar for that masses.

It's quite cool how the Asha 302 took this short amount of time to go from announcement to availability. Service Provider Three offers it both on Pay Monthly plans as well as Pay as you go if you'd rather not agree to long-term contracts.

On contract, the Nokia Asha 302 could be yours free of charge starting at £15 each month. For that amount of cash you'll get 300 minutes, 5,000 texts, and 250 MB of information each month. In the exact opposite side with the spectrum sits Three's The main one Plan, that provides you 2,000 minutes, 5,000 Three-to-Three minutes, 5,000 texts, in addition to All-you-can-eat data for £30 per month. There are some other options though, make sure you check them out too prior to you making up your mind.

On Pay as you go, the Nokia Asha 302 costs just £89.99, meaning that unless you need a new contract, you're probably better off paying much upfront while not having to shell out money every month (no matter how little). But it's your decision after all. To obtain your Asha 302 now, head on over to Three.

The Nokia Asha 302 includes a 2.4-inch 240×320 display, single GHz processor, a 3.15 MP camera with video recording support, 256 MB of ROM, 128 MB of RAM, microSD card slot, 14.4 Mbps HSDPA, 5.76 Mbps HSUPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, plus a 1,320 mAh battery.

Mo Cheng
Editor-In-Chief
YouMobile Inc.

I guess you still remember how AT&T held exclusivity for iPhone sales in the US for many years - up until the Verizon iPhone 4 was finally launched last year. Well, the same thing has been going on in China.

When the iPhone first arrived over there, the exclusive carrier has been China Unicom. That's the second biggest carrier, as China Mobile (who's No.1) uses TD-SCDMA for 3G, a Chinese tech which hasn't so far been used anywhere else in the world and which Apple has been reluctant to include into its iPhones. So that left Apple with the choice of selling an EDGE device to China Mobile customers or going with China Unicom, which uses the WCDMA 3G that's also found pretty much everywhere across the globe.

But the Verizon (and then Sprint) iPhone launches meant that Apple now gonna make a CDMA iPhone. And China Telecom has a CDMA mobile network in China. So, Guys, starting today, for the first time there's some competition in China for the iPhone. China Telecom has started selling the iPhone 4S today, almost two months after China Unicom did the same thing. Although it's the smallest of the ‘big three' Chinese carriers, China Telecom will surely benefit immensely from the new partnership with Apple.

Mo Cheng

Editor-In-Chief

YouMobile

Samsung has reportedly signed a new deal with Blockbuster that may begin to have the company deliver thousands of movies to the Korean electronics giant's Galaxy smartphones and tablets, Blu-ray players and new connected Smart TVs.  Smarthouse reports the service will be rolled out around australia, the usa and Europe this season, with American and European customers likely to see the streaming service offered in the first half of 2012.

Blockbuster is Australia's biggest provider of rental movies but has suffered in the usa as Internet-based Netflix and rental kiosk company Redbox have dominated the marketplace. The retailer was forced to close a lot of its stores included in a cost-cutting strategy and was recently acquired by US satellite broadcaster the Dish Network and will launch a fresh streaming service that may underpin the Samsung deal.

Paul Uniacke, CEO of the Franchise Entertainment Group, who supports the rights for the Blockbuster brand around australia asserted the Samsung deal "is a brilliant deal" that will see the service entirely on Samsung's array of televisions, Blu-ray players, mobile devices as well as PCs.

To facilitate the brand new service, Samsung is rumoured to become creating a new global billing platform that will permit users to sign-up and buy new media content, helping the Korean manufacturer extend its range of value-added services to better serve its customers across devices.

Thanks bgr for this update

Google latest Android version, Ics Cream Sandwich, may be tipped to start out rolling in the market to Samsung Galaxy SII and Galaxy Note models from March 1, mobile industry insider Eldar Murtazin reveals.Murtazin posted a tweet stating that the state update would reveal at the start of next month, finally delivering stable builds of earlier releases which had reportedly leaked from the Korean smartphone giant:

Eldar Murtazin@eldarmurtazin

Android 4 aka ics for sgs2 is going to be officially offered by march 1(depends from country/operator). Update over the air or using kies On December 20, Samsung

He confirmed that the Galaxy S II, Galaxy Note and Galaxy Tab models would receive official Android 4.0 updates. It said both Galaxy S II and Galaxy Note would receive Frozen goodies Sandwich updates inside the first quarter of 2012, with updates for other smartphone and tablet devices following just after.Rumours also circulated at the end of last year that Samsung was working on delivering an Android "Value Pack" for the Galaxy S, after previously praoclaiming that the Galaxy S and original Galaxy Tab wouldn't support the new firmware. We were holding dealt a blow when the company informed The Next Web there have been no plans for therelease.

Samsung has not yet officially confirmed the discharge date so that it stays firmly as a rumour, but when it is correct then Ice Cream Sandwich is under 3 weeks far from making its way to your handset.

Google's Android operating system version 4. 0, better known by as "Ice Ointment Sandwich", has been slow to reach on smartphones and capsules (it recently debuted inside U. S. on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone). But Chinese tech company Lenovo used CES to introduce the main smart television with Google android 4. 0, a 55-inch 3-D (240Hz recharge rate) LED product called the K91. It's going to available in April : in China.

Lenovo is mentioning the user interface as the Sandwich UI-letting you move among video on need, Internet apps and of course regular TV.

TV apps are customizable by Google android developers. More than 100 apps are preloaded and you'll be able to tap into the Google android Market, a Lenovo store and Lenovo cloud services-you are able to share music, videos, pictures or anything else from tablets and devices and computers.

The TV carries a Qualcomm Snapdragon dual core processor, 1 gig involving RAM, a hard get with 8 gigs associated with storage, plus a removable 2GB Sdcard.

There's also a built-in 5 megapixel camera for video chats, and also, as is the case Ice Cream Sandwich phones, to "unlock" the tv.

(Hopefully the facial recognition feature will work better than it does indeed on phones.) The handheld remote control features a touchpad, 5-way keys and a motion sensor. It may also respond, Lenovo says, to voice commands.

Lenovo is creating a 42-inch model as properly, but the company hasn't disclosed any of its TV plans for the U. S. market or even spilled the beans on pricing. Lenovo did tell me that despite the fact that the K91 employs Android, it is not a "Google TV".

The Samsung Galaxy Y Pro Duos has been officially announced today by Samsung, alongside another new dual-SIM smartphone: the Galaxy Y Duos. (Details below)

GALAXY Y Pro DUOS, which offers additional benefits for young professionals with the combination of a full QWERTY keyboard with a 2.6'' display, giving them more business-friendly experience with better flexibility and usability.

GALAXY Y Pro DUOS offers enhanced productivity with the inclusion of Polaris and Find My Mobile professional tools. Polaris offers easy viewing and editing of a wide range of Office documents, enabling you to work with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and even PDF files while on-the-move. Samsung's Find My Mobile Service ensures peace-of-mind by letting users remotely lock the phone at anytime, as well as trace the phone or remotely wipe its contents in case of loss or theft.

The users can also enjoy Social Hub Premium, offering support for push email and messaging, and seamless calendar and contact synchronization between the phone and users' Google, Yahoo and MSN accounts.

GALAXY Y DUOS is for young and practical consumers who want to manage their professional career and busy social life with affordable price. Beyond the flexibility of its dual SIM card system, GALAXY Y DUOS is a beautifully designed smartphone contained in a 11.98mm polished metallic casing. Its ergonomic design is complemented by a 3.14'' full touch display that provides optimal legibility for a smartphone of its size.

Powered by Android 2.3 Gingerbread and running on a powerful 832MHz processor, GALAXY Y DUOS offers advanced performance and versatility needed to successfully manage busy professional and social lifestyles.

GALAXY Y DUOS also features ChatON, Samsung's unique cross-platform communication service that connects all mobile users into a single community. Users can also stay connected through Social Hub, which supports email, social network integration and instant messaging, displaying all of your communication in a single inbox.

Both handsets run Android Gingerbread, and are nothing more than dual-SIM versions of the Galaxy Y and Galaxy Y Pro (already available in lots of markets).According to Samsung, the Galaxy Y Duos and Galaxy Y Pro Duos will be available starting January in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa. There's no word yet on the new smartphones' prices.

Mo Cheng

Editor-In-Chief

YouMobile, Inc