Who knew that owning a ZTE Score M would mean living life on the edge?

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ZTE confirms the Score M has a backdoor, hopes to patch up soon

HTC gave us a quick session to play around with its latest handset, the Desire C . No, it’s not part of the consolidated One series , nor is the company revealing precisely what that “C” stands for — heaven forfend it’s “cheap.” While a humble 320 x 480 touchscreen and 600MHz processor might not set many smartphone obsessives’ hearts a’ racing, it still manages to eke out a HTC Sense-skinned Android 4.0 UI — no mere feat, in our opinion. A 5-megapixel camera and expandable microSD slot are some other welcome specifications and it’s all wrapped up in an attractive matte finish — you can take your pick form black and white in the UK.

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HTC Desire C hands-on (video)

It’s the most wonderful time of the week once again, pals.

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Distro Issue 41: a visit to the Lowcountry’s Twelve South, TiVo Premiere XL4 and HTC EVO 4G LTE

Last we heard, Chinese manufacturer K-Touch was quite busy showing off its Treasure V8 at this year’s Mobile World Congress . Now, the company’s taken the wraps off of its budget-friendly, TD-SCDMA T660 smartphone, marking its first intelligent handset on China Mobile .

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K-Touch joins China Mobile with Marvell-powered T660, waves a $160 price tag

It’s only been a few days since we first heard the rumors about an upcoming, Sprint-bound LG quad-core slab, and now that same LS970 “superphone” is back for more action. Thanks to yet another snap acquired by the folks over at BriefMobile , we can now spot a couple extra details on the device, including its previously unknown NFC capabilities. Contrary to earlier beliefs, the alleged LG Eclipse also seems to offer a removable battery, which is likely to make some power users very content.

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LG LS970 ‘superphone’ shows up again, flaunts its removable battery and NFC chip

Despite there being so many smartphones nowadays, finding cases for certain handsets can be tricky — unless you’re toting the likes of an iPhone or the latest Android flagship device, that is. Keeping that in mind, Sony has good news for Xperia owners, as it’s officially announced a partnership program to bring more case options for its phones to market. According to Sony, 10 companies are currently onboard, including the likes of Case-Mate and Incipio , and some will be announcing what’ll be on offer before the month’s out.

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Sony helps you ‘personalize’ your Xperia further, announces case maker partnerships

Pre-orders are nothing new in the realm of video gaming — they’re the requisite hype before the release day-storm. On the digital download front, however, that anticipatory frenzy hasn’t gotten much major industry support, until now.

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Sony opens up PSN to digital download pre-orders

It’s been a battle of epic proportions over a microscopic piece of plastic, but the warring sides appear to be working together to find a compromise. We’re referring to the fight between Apple and a coalition formed by RIM, Motorola and Nokia as each group attempts to make their own nano-SIM design the ETSI standard.

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RIM and Motorola modify nano-SIM proposal, hope to meet Apple halfway

Wondering how the launch of Samsung’s Galaxy S III is going?

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Samsung’s Galaxy S III reportedly notches nine million pre-orders worldwide

Although Motorola Xoom WiFi owners in the US have had Android 4.0.4 for quite some time now , Android 4.0.3 is only just now pushing out to folks in Canada.

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Motorola XOOM WiFi Android 4.0.3 OTA now available in Canada