The HTC HD3 will reportedly be officially announced next week, possibly setting a new standard for cutting-edge smartphones. It will supposedly have a 4.5-inch touchscreen and run Microsoft Windows Phone 7 on a 1.5 GHz processor.[ View article ]

Verizon Wireless has just announced that the Android OS-powered Samsung Fascinate is going to debut Wednesday, September 8. This high-end smartphone will sport a 4-inch AM-OLED touchscreen and a 1 GHz processor.[ View article ]

Nokia has chosen to give the world its first chance to try out the Nokia N8 at IFA, Europe's largest consumer electronics trade show. Dragan Petrick put this high-end smartphone though its paces, and while he liked the 12 megapixel camera, he was less pleased with the Symbian^3 operating system.[ View article ]

IFA, the biggest consumer electronics show in Europe, is going on now. One of the biggest announcements is the Toshiba Folio 100, an Android OS-based tablet with a 10-inch display. Dragan Petric from Brighthand's sister site TabletPCReview was able to try out this upcoming model.[ View article ]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced a few days ago that iOS 4.1 will be released next week, but he didn't say exactly when. Apple UK has reveled that this upgrade is going to be introduced on Wednesday, Sept. 8.[ View article ]

The Samsung Fascinate is going to be released by Verizon in the near future, but this carrier is still keeping some of the details of this high-end Android OS smartphone secret. Despite these attempts, much of this information has leaked out, including the price.[ View article ]

At the beginning of each month, Brighthand publishes a list of the smartphones that readers have shown the most interest in during the preceding four weeks. Not surprisingly, August's list is mostly dominated by the high-end models that debuted this summer.[ View article ]

The first smartphones running Windows Phone 7 will be released later this year. Brighthand's Ed Hardy got some time with a pre-release version of this operating system, and brings us his early impressions.[ View article ]