Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini

Mini by name and by nature, this is a refresh of the concept behind Sony Ericsson's X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro, the pint-sized and ultraportable handsets launched in mid-2010.

It packs a new 1GHz processor, and a bigger 3-inch screen with the Bravia Engine Reality Display tech used in the Xperia Arc (read: you get a 320x480 resolution touchscreen that's a bit brighter at times).

The user interface has received an overhaul too, so on paper the new Xperia Mini looks like a big leap forward for the tiny form factor.

And so it proves to be, offering a very usable – dare we say, pretty – interface that makes the small screen totally workable. Social media integration is great too.

The story's not perfect, though, with less-than-brilliant video codec support and a weak camera offering. The titchy screen won't suit gamers either, but those after a great little phone that won't keep their hands full with glitches and faffing about could be in for a treat.

LG Optimus 3D

It's big, it's weighty and it's pretty darn expensive, but that pair of characters tacked on the end of the LG Optimus 3D's name might justify all that and more for you. For this, ladies and gents, is a technological milestone: the first 'glasses-free' 3D phone.

The good news is that the effect works brilliantly and that all-important screen is complemented by some great Android customisations on the software side.

Web performance is stellar too.The bad news is that even for a dual-core, the Optimus 3D can feel sluggish, the battery life is poor and – oddly for a phone sold on the back of cutting-edge tech – it's 'only' running Android 2.2.

If you're undecided about joining the 3D revolution, then head on over to the review to find out more.

HTC Incredible S

Incredible by name and only slightly less so by nature, this phone is HTC's entry into the underpopulated 4-inch touchscreen arena. In fact, it's among the first UK handsets to fill that niche, but more are on the horizon.

BlackBerry Bold 9900

While RIM has a great reputation for push email and corporate handsets, it's not known for being an innovator. For this reason, the Blackberry Bold 9900 is an intriguing proposition, packing some higher-end tech into a rather attractive shell.

The capacitive (and high resolution) touchscreen screen is a particular marvel, but the inclusion of a near-field communications chip and the brand new OS 7 show that the Bold 9900 was made to break new ground for RIM.

The result is impressive, but only if you're happy to operate within the boundaries of BlackBerry's traditional strengths. Those looking for an outstanding web browsing or media experience will still find themselves disappointed. Still, head over to the review to find out more about what our review dubbed the best BlackBerry to date.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc

Could Sony Ericsson finally be about to deliver on the promise of, well, every smartphone it's ever made that wasn't quite good enough? Maybe it was stupid to hope, but we did anyway with this new mobile phone.

An attractive design with a curved back that's just 8.7mm thick in the middle? Check. Impressive new Exmor camera technology? Check. Good spec list, including HDMI output? Check. Superb video player? Check.

The hardware is extremely impressive, both in terms of looks and performance. Forget the fashionable dual-core phones – when done right, a single-core 1GHz processor can do it all, although busy, dynamic websites will cause the phone to chug a little.

As it is, we're prepared to overlook the Xperia Arc's few minor flaws (small buttons, odd text entry) thanks to its stunning good looks, superb screen and very decent photo performance. You can't help but love it once you've held its magically thin body and gazed adoringly into its dazzling Reality Display.

HTC Sensation XE

This phone is so brand spanking new that it was announced just a day before we first held it in our palms. It adheres to the sensational HTC Sensation's template, but with the addition of ear-pleasing Beats Audio processing and a few spec upgrades.

You needn't be an audiophile to enjoy the new profile, but you will need a set of Beats Audio headphones.

Thankfully, a pair come with the device. In our tests so far, we've noticed a real difference, with the tinny edge of HTC's sound enhancer diminished, the crispness of sounds augmented and the only potential grounds for minor quibbles being the ear canal-shaking levels of bass.

The good news continues elsewhere, with a 1730mAh battery that should have more staying power than the original Sensation, a 1.5GHz dual-core processor to keep the experience smooth and an eye-pleasing design.

Treat your senses and check out the full review when it lands.

HTC ChaCha

If you're aged 14-21 and are after a fun mobile rather than a black slab of raw processing power, we reckon you'll find it hard not to like (or +1, if you prefer) the new 'Facebook phone'.

As the nickname suggests, Mark Zuckerberg's blue-hued brand of social media is at the heart of the experience – HTC even going as far as to give the site its own dedicated button beneath the ChaCha's decent QWERTY keyboard.

Break through the wall of modified HTC Sense and you'll note that Android Gingerbread is powering the experience, which should be welcome for the tech-savvy target audience. Less warmly received will be the Flash integration, which is a bit iffy to say the least.

With a funny shape and small screen to boot, you're really going to have to want the ChaCha's style of social oh la la to buy into this. Still, if you do, then this is something to post home about.

Samsung Galaxy S2

It's rare that a direct sequel to something awesome – be it film, game or hardware – is anything other than a disappointment when it comes to a new phone.

Rarer still is when the second instalment surpasses the original. We can think of just a scant handful of cases off the top of our heads: The Empire Strikes Back, Terminator 2 and Left 4 Dead 2.

Well, add the Galaxy S2 to that list, because this phone is awesome.

Thin, light and with an amazingly clear 4.3-inch Super AMOLED plus screen behind its toughened Gorilla Glass front panel, this is one handset you won't be pocketing in shame when your mates pass by.

In fact, we suspect you'll be evangelising about it to anyone who'll listen. That's because the dual-core processor within its tiny shell isn't just a marketing bullet point, but rather powers an experience that we're nothing short of effervescent about. For instance, web browsing is blisteringly fast and the Galaxy S2's Flash support is second to none.

We're thrilled to say that the plus points are just too numerous to do justice of here. Check out the full review to find out why this is one of the best smartphones we're likely to see in 2011.

Nokia Lumia 800 has slow start to sales

Stats from web retailers show much-hyped device only had 0.17% share in November

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Nokia's Lumia 800 handset has struggled to make an impact, with a market share of only 0.17% during November among internet retailers.

According to retail research from price comparison site www.mobilesplease.co.uk, the Lumia 800 was outperformed by handsets including the iPhone 3GS, HTC Sensation and Samsung Galaxy S II. The latter had the largest market share with 16.13%.

A spokesperson for the site said: 'Critics have pointed to a range of difficulties experienced by the Lumia 800 including a very limited battery life, poor software functionality and a high retail price.'

However, the spokesperson suggested the phone may have had better success with the business market. He said: 'With the Apple and Android app marketplaces being predominantly geared towards consumer apps it could be that Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace starts to grow into the de facto platform for business users and that Nokia help them to do this.'

The website took the statistics from 5,377 mobile phone sales across UK phone retailers' websites, including Carphone Warehouse, Phones 4u and the networks, during November.

November's bestsellers:

1. Samsung Galaxy S II (16.13%)

2. Apple iPhone 4 16GB black (10.24%)

3. Apple iPhone 4S 16GB black (5.50%)

4. BlackBerry Bold Touch 9900 (3.79%)

5. Apple iPhone 3GS 8GB (3.03%)

6. BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 ( 2.54%)

7. HTC Sensation (2.16%)

8. Apple iPhone 4S 16GB white (2.01%)

9. Nokia Lumia 800 black (0.17%)

RIM to introduce parental control features

BlackBerry manufacturer says future versions of BlackBerry 7 will have integrated protection features

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BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM) is working on introducing new parental control features that will help to monitor children's use of smartphones.

RIM said the features will give parents the ability to control and restrict children's use of various services and applications on BlackBerry smartphones.

It plans to provide integrated parental control features in future versions of its BlackBerry 7 OS in order to allow parents to control various settings on their child's smartphone including the browser, text messaging and access to social networking sites.

BlackBerry App World 3.1 will also now offer content rating and filtering options for applications based on the CTIA Wireless Association’s “Guidelines for App Content Classification and Ratings”. This feature enables parents to set a rating filter in BlackBerry App World to restrict content of specified ratings from being displayed or purchased.

The move comes as it reiterated its policy to protect children from accessing pornography on mobile phones after meeting Telecom regulator Ofcom to discuss issues with the BlackBerry porn filter.

Ofcom said the problem appeared to be that phone operators are unable to apply filters to handsets, which means people who should not view restricted material can do so.

A spokesman for RIM said: 'RIM is committed to child protection and is an active member of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF).

'Access to IWF URLs are blocked on BlackBerry in the UK and this is being put in place in the international markets in which BlackBerry is available. 

'In addition, as a provider to mobile operators, RIM fully supports its operator partners around the world in meeting obligations and commitments in this important area.

'Content filtering support is available to operators from RIM that enables the operator to perform the content filtering function for BlackBerry smartphones.

'It is offered to our operator partners without charge. Operator partners around the world have implemented content filtering, including operator partners in the UK. Any reference to content filtering having been turned off is inaccurate. RIM continues to work with its operator partners to enhance content filtering for BlackBerry smartphone users.'

New tariffs to be key battleground in 2012

Innovative offers like O2 Lease and T-Mobile’s business tariff will become more commonplace

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Operators will become more experimental with tariffs next year to drive demand for smartphones, analysts have claimed.

This month, O2 launched a new leasing contract for the iPhone 4S (pictured) while T-Mobile introduced more short-term deals for businesses. Both contracts run for 12 months, with O2 understood to be the first UK operator to offer a lease for a device since the late 1980s.

Strategy Analytics’ analyst Phil Kendall said O2’s move into leasing was driven by increasing competition in the smartphone market since the network lost exclusivity on the iPhone in 2009. He said: ‘With its rivals now selling iPhones and other Android devices, O2 is just one of four or five brands pushing smartphones. It is looking for a new vehicle to maintain momentum.

‘The challenge for retailers over the coming year is how to push smartphones further with customers.They will want to increase ownership from around 35% now to something closer to 60%.’

O2 is offering customers 750 minutes, unlimited texts, insurance and 500MB of data for a 16GB device under its new scheme. It is also offering business tariffs starting from £45. O2 UK’s marketing and consumer director Sally Cowdry claimed the operator wanted to take consumer familiarity with leasing the likes of washing machines and televisions to deliver a similar proposition for mobile phones.

Kendall said that while the offer makes sense as there are people who prefer not to pay upfront for devices, £55 was too expensive. He said: ‘The model has legs but not at that price. It feels a little top heavy to me. It’s not difficult to do the maths on other ways of owning an iPhone.’

Meanwhile, T-Mobile launched its new 12 month business tariff last week. Customers can choose from HTC’s Desire S and Wildfire S or RIM’s BlackBerry Curve 9300 and Bold 9870 handsets. The lowest entry point tariff is £25 for 750 minutes, 250 texts and 100MB of data, with the highest tariff offering 2,000 minutes, 500 texts and 1GB of data for £45 per month.

Kendall said offers similar to those O2 and T-Mobile are currently promoting would become more commonplace as operators look to increase smartphone penetration.

He said: ‘We are going to see more UK operators experimenting with different ways of getting smartphones into customers’ hands in the next year.’

CCS Insight MD Shaun Collins said: ‘Tariffs will be one of the main battlegrounds for the UK next year. Retailers will be experimenting more with tariffs and we will see more deals like T-Mobile’s U-Fix, Tesco’s capped tariffs or Vodafone’s ‘try before you buy’ data offer. For mobile operators to sustain their balance sheets, they are going to have to reconstruct the tariffs that they offer.’

Orange signals an optimistic 2012 for small businesses

Keep investing despite the challenging economic climate

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Eighty-three per cent of small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK believe that next year will be just as prosperous or even better than 2011, according to the second annual survey of SMEs predications for the year ahead from Orange.

This is up from 76% in last year’s survey. The survey also highlights that 79% of SMEs believe their businesses performed better in 2011 than expected.

Orange said that despite the optimistic outlook, the economic turbulence of the last three years has not gone unnoticed, with austerity still the focus for many of the businesses questioned.

The survey showed that 70% of SMEs do not plan to hire more staff in 2012 than they did in 2011. Instead, SMEs see themselves reinvesting their profits directly into the business, with 89% planning to spend more on communication technology in 2012 than they did in 2011. This is up from 52% in last year’s survey.

The way that companies are doing business is evolving and increasingly, they need to enable their employees to access the internet, office documents and mobile applications while on the move. Subsequently, communication technologies, such as smartphones, tablets and unified communications, are becoming increasingly important within the enterprise.

In addition, Orange’s survey also investigated SMEs attitudes towards the much-anticipated London 2012 Olympics. Questioning SMEs from all areas of the UK, the survey revealed that nearly a fifth (19%) of companies believe that the London 2012 Olympics will benefit their business. In addition, 37% of SMEs planning on offering their staff the opportunity to work flexibly during the London 2012 Olympics, in order for them to enjoy the event.

Martin Stiven, VP of business at Orange said: 'It is encouraging to see that despite a challenging climate, the UK’s SMEs are cautiously optimistic about the year ahead. While ‘austerity’ will no doubt continue to be a buzz word next year, it is vital that businesses don’t stop investing in their companies. Instead, they should be looking at utilising new technologies to empower employees, communicate more effectively with customers, and help future proof their businesses.'

Everything Everywhere launches interactive SMS and MMS mobile advertising service

Operator rolls out new service to selected segments of T-Mobile customer base

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Everything Everywhere has started the rollout of its interactive SMS/MMS mobile advertising service to selected segments of the T-Mobile customer base for the very first time.

The new service, which launches on T-Mobile this month, provides a platform for brands to engage and interact with T-Mobile customers and follows the Orange Shots service launched last year.

Under the consumer facing name ‘You Choose’ from T-Mobile, the service will enable brands to deliver fun and creative content specifically tailored to T-Mobile pay-as-you-go and pay monthly customers preferences.

The service works by then developing a dialogue with customers in order to understand more about their interests so they only receiving tailored content from great brands that are relevant to them.

It is expected that over time the service will be rolled out to more T-Mobile customers. Customers can opt in and opt out at any time and T-Mobile customer data will not be shared with third parties.

The new service uses the existing Everything Everywhere interactive advertising platform, which is already used  by Orange Shots and is powered by SMS and MMS advertising specialist Blyk. The service allows customers to message back for free and give their views and opinions on the content they receive.

Everything Everywhere's chief marketing officer, non consumer mobile Gerry McQuade said, 'We’re pleased to be rolling out our interactive mobile advertising service on T-Mobile for the first time.

'Only Everything Everywhere customers get to benefit from receiving great content and offers via SMS and MMS which they can interact with – enhancing their mobile experience while at the same time providing a great opportunity for relevant advertisers,'

Apple wins latest bout of patent wars against HTC

Infringement believed to relate to push to talk feature within emails

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The International Trade Commission (USITC) has ruled that Taiwanese manufacturer HTC has infringed two claims in an Apple patent.

The infringement relates to the ability to push to talk on a phone number within an email. HTC said the feature was a small user interface experience and will be removed from all phones 'soon'.

The exclusion order will begin from April 2012 but HTC will have until the end of December 2013 to import refurbished handsets and replace the relevant devices.

New tariffs to be key battleground in 2012

Innovative offers like O2 Lease and T-Mobile’s business tariff will become more commonplace

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Operators will become more experimental with tariffs next year to drive demand for smartphones, analysts have claimed.

This month, O2 launched a new leasing contract for the iPhone 4S (pictured) while T-Mobile introduced more short-term deals for businesses. Both contracts run for 12 months, with O2 understood to be the first UK operator to offer a lease for a device since the late 1980s.

Strategy Analytics’ analyst Phil Kendall said O2’s move into leasing was driven by increasing competition in the smartphone market since the network lost exclusivity on the iPhone in 2009. He said: ‘With its rivals now selling iPhones and other Android devices, O2 is just one of four or five brands pushing smartphones. It is looking for a new vehicle to maintain momentum.

‘The challenge for retailers over the coming year is how to push smartphones further with customers.They will want to increase ownership from around 35% now to something closer to 60%.’

O2 is offering customers 750 minutes, unlimited texts, insurance and 500MB of data for a 16GB device under its new scheme. It is also offering business tariffs starting from £45. O2 UK’s marketing and consumer director Sally Cowdry claimed the operator wanted to take consumer familiarity with leasing the likes of washing machines and televisions to deliver a similar proposition for mobile phones.

Kendall said that while the offer makes sense as there are people who prefer not to pay upfront for devices, £55 was too expensive. He said: ‘The model has legs but not at that price. It feels a little top heavy to me. It’s not difficult to do the maths on other ways of owning an iPhone.’

Meanwhile, T-Mobile launched its new 12 month business tariff last week. Customers can choose from HTC’s Desire S and Wildfire S or RIM’s BlackBerry Curve 9300 and Bold 9870 handsets. The lowest entry point tariff is £25 for 750 minutes, 250 texts and 100MB of data, with the highest tariff offering 2,000 minutes, 500 texts and 1GB of data for £45 per month.

Kendall said offers similar to those O2 and T-Mobile are currently promoting would become more commonplace as operators look to increase smartphone penetration.

He said: ‘We are going to see more UK operators experimenting with different ways of getting smartphones into customers’ hands in the next year.’

CCS Insight MD Shaun Collins said: ‘Tariffs will be one of the main battlegrounds for the UK next year. Retailers will be experimenting more with tariffs and we will see more deals like T-Mobile’s U-Fix, Tesco’s capped tariffs or Vodafone’s ‘try before you buy’ data offer. For mobile operators to sustain their balance sheets, they are going to have to reconstruct the tariffs that they offer.’

Nokia demo Arch drives Lumia sales 800

Demonstration stand in Westfield Stratford causing ‘significant’ sales uplift in Lumia 800

Nokia has reported a ‘significant uplift’ in sales of Lumia 800 phones after introducing a new demonstration stand in an east London shopping centre. The company is expected to roll out the stands across the country from early next year.

The manufacturer is testing the pilot stand, known as The Nokia Arch, at the Westfield Stratford shopping centre next to the London 2012 Olympic Park. If it proves successful, Nokia will launch
a rollout in the New Year.

Speaking to Mobile, Nokia’s head of retail James Kitto said early results were promising with ‘a significant uplift’ in like-for-like sales of Lumia 800 phones compared to similar shopping centres across the country. He added: ‘We will review the results of this pilot and take the lessons from that for a potential rollout next year.’

Kitto said the Nokia Arch rollout programme would concentrate on ‘a typical high footfall, high density, shopping mall environment’.

The move marks Nokia’s continuing withdrawal from traditional retail, which saw the last of its Nokia-branded franchised stores close down earlier this year. Kitto said: ‘We no longer have an own-store strategy. Our approach is to support our market partners to drive the success of the Nokia range of handsets, but we will continue to ensure we engage all UK consumers across the range.’

The pilot Nokia Arch has up to eight staff, described by Kitto as ‘youthful, energetic and highly motivated brand advocates’. It is stocked with live devices and two giant touch-screens. Staff offer a comprehensive demo service and will help customers set up their Lumia 800 handset if they buy it from a nearby mobile phone store in the shopping centre.

However, Kitto said the stands will not sell the devices to customers directly. He added: ‘It is not a shop, it is a large 6m x 4m retail kiosk in the centre of the mall that is non-transactional. It is experiential and a long-term implementation in that particular shopping centre.’

He added: ‘The idea is to bring Nokia out onto the street, to engage consumers with the brand, with the Nokia Lumia 800 and show what we can do on the Windows Phone platform. We want to engage people by demonstrating the capability and benefits of the device and show how it is significantly more advanced in certain areas.’

Nokia is also increasing its Field Force team by over 70% to deliver comprehensive support to retail partners selling its Lumia devices. Kitto said: ‘We have significantly increased the numbers of our Field Force and they are also working more closely with Microsoft’s Field Force teams.’

He added that the company is committed to maintaining the size of its Field Force team next year as it continues to launch new devices from its flagship Lumia range. The manufacturer is expected to launch the Lumia 710 in the first quarter of 2012.

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LG prepares ‘affordable’ Prada phone for February launch

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LG’s new Prada phone will hit the UK market in February and will be promoted as an ‘affordable’ device, according to the company’s UK head of mobile communications Warren Lewis.

Lewis was speaking to Mobile as the Prada Phone by LG 3.0 was launched in London on 14 December. The high-end phone, the third in the LG/Prada partnership, has a 4.3-inch NOVA screen, 8GB of internal memory and an eight-megapixel camera. It will launch with Android Gingerbread and packs a 1GHz dual-core processor.

Lewis said the phone’s appeal was not just down to the Prada branding but also because it was a ‘very impressive, high-spec device’. He said: ‘We’re aiming it at a varied range of customers. There’s the fashionable audience who will want the Prada product, but we want to make it affordable through networks. It will give an audience a whole new route to a Prada product that they may not have had before.’

He added that pricing had not been finalised for the device but pre-orders would begin in the UK in early February before its launch later that month
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BlackBerry 8520 Review

In a nutshell: An entry-level BlackBerry Curve, with a new-fangled Trackpad to replace the annoying trackball on previous Curve models. The 8520 offers a full QWERTY keyboard, mobile e-mail, a basic camera and a media player, plus good memory and connectivity. But it cuts corners with the display, camera and lack of high-end features that are common in many smartphones.

Best buy: *Free* with free line rental from Mobiles.co.uk (Black) orMobiles.co.uk (Violet); or on pay as you go for £99.95 from the Carphone Warehouse (Black or Violet).

Review: August 2009.

BlackBerry are trying hard. People like us have been moaning for ages about the trackball that featured in previous curve models. The trackball that often gets stuck and develops a mind of its own. And now they've come up with an alternative: a touch-sensitive Trackpad. Good work, but somehow they've fumbled the keyboard, and the beautifully responsive keyboard that appeared on the 8900 has been replaced by one that just doesn't quite have the same sureness of feel. What a shame! Still, the combination of trackpad plus QWERTY keyboard isn't a bad one, and it sure beats struggling to write an email with a conventional alphanumeric keypad!

Anyway, we're getting ahead of ourselves. Let's take a step back and survey the BlackBerry 8520. What is it's place in the BlackBerry family? It's not a 3G phone like the BlackBerry Bold, and it's missing features like GPS that appear in theBlackBerry 8900. No, this is an entry level member of the curve family, equipped with a basic screen and a really clunky camera. But it does have several strongpoints - the push email application and QWERTY keyboard that have made BlackBerries famous, excellent connectivity and some decent memory. The connectivity includes WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate, plus the benefit of a 3.5mm audio jack for connecting headphones or plugging into your car stereo.

As a budget BlackBerry, the 8520 has its place in the line-up, but the cost saving compared with the 8900 isn't very much. On balance, we'd prefer the BlackBerry 8900 to the 8520, despite the trackball vs trackpad issue. The 8900 is a better featured phone in several ways, and the outstandingly good keyboard on the 8900 is a major plus for anyone serious about mobile messaging.

Features of the BlackBerry 8520 include:

• 2 megapixel camera with 5x digital zoom
• Video camera (320 x 240 pixels)
• Internal display: TFT, 240 x 320 pixels (2.46 inches), 65,000 colours
• Media player (MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA formats)
• Messaging: SMS, MMS, instant messaging, push email with attachment viewer
• Built-in speakerphone
• Voice dialling
• Voice memo recorder
• MP3 ringtones & LED call indicator
• Personal organiser functions
• Vibration alert
• Internet: Web browser, GPRS, EDGE
• Connectivity: WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR, USB, modem, 3.5mm stereo headset port
• Memory: 256 Mbytes plus microSD memory card slot
• Size: 109 x 60 x 14 mm
• Weight: 106g
• Quadband
• Talktime: 4.5 hours
• Battery standby: 400 hours

U.S. Cellular updates Samsung Galaxy Tab to Android 2.3.5

 Back in May, the Samsung Galaxy Tab was updated to Gingerbread over in Italy. In the States, regional carrier U.S. Cellular is now updating the Samsung Galaxy Tab to Android 2.3.5. The 7 inch tablet launched with Froyo so users of the Galaxy Tab on the U.S. Cellular pipeline are going to feel as if they have a brand new device in their hand. 

The U.S. Cellular version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab is getting Gingerbread

According to the changelog, the update brings VPN support, improved volume control when playing a video or watching a movie while using a headset. Security is improved with some Google security patches such as DigiNotar certificate revocation and Libpng security update. The update also removes an automatic accept for Bluetooth pairing with Handsfree Profile. This now prevents a nearby third party from being able to autoconnect to Bluetooth HFP and possibly grabbing your contact data.

The next bit of news about the update is no biggie for those who know their way around a USB port. The update will not be an OTA download and installation which means that you will have to link to a Windows PC using a USB cable. To get the Android 2.3.5 update for your Galaxy Tab, go to the sourcelink and scroll down until you see the picture of your tablet. In addition, Samsung has released a page of answers to some of the questions about this update that might be floating around in your mind. To get there, just click on the link.

And of course, once you update your Samsung Galaxy Tab to Gingerbread, you will let us know how your tablet has changed following the update. When you're ready, simply drop us a comment in the box below!

source: U.S.Cellular via AndroidCentral