Samsung has released its previously announced ChatON messaging application in the Android Market. ChatON currently supports phones running Android, Bada and Samsung’s feature phones. ChatON will also be coming to BlackBerry and iOS devices in the future.

When my phone rings I generally cringe, not because I am hiding from anyone or expecting any bad news, I simply do not like to talk on the phone. Me personally, I would much rather get an email or text message instead of a phone call. Or even a Facebook message would be a better more »

It’s no secret that text messaging fees are one of the biggest ripoffs of the mobile phone industry. Those of us with smartphone plans tend to benefit from unlimited messaging, but feature phone owners aren’t so lucky. There is hope for them yet because Samsung just revealed a new messaging service called ChatOn. ChatOn will work with smartphones, feature phones and various operating systems.

You no longer have to log in to the official Facebook application to access the messaging features. Today, Facebook released Facebook Messenger for iOS and Android. Facebook Messenger is a separate application that only handles messages. Chat messages, inbox messages, emails and text messages will be located in one place.

Following up on Sony Ericsson’s Facebook announcement, we bring the txt pro. Designed, as you might gleem from the name, as a social tool to communicate with your pals. This phone’s standout feature is the ability to keep track of your top five friends most recent updates. Full slide out qwerty keyboard, 3.2″ camera and more »

The next major update to the Windows Phone operating system currently known as Mango will have a few more enhanced features that haven’t been officially revealed by Microsoft just yet. Much like the previous unofficial announcement, this news is also coming from the Windows Phone Dev Podcast. We can expect some substantial changes to the Windows Phone 7 operating system including support for Facebook Chat that’s built right in.

With the Verizon iPhone looming in the distance, it looks like AT&T is trying to more directly competer with it’s biggest rival. That means changes are coming, maybe not huge changes, but changes nonetheless. According to a leaked image obtained by Gear Live, AT&T plans on changing up it’s SMS rates to be more in more »

The free text and picture messaging app textPlus has announced a new feature — phone numbers. Yup, the textPlus app for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad has recently been updated and now when launched it will give you the option to get an actual phone number. In other words, your Text Plus setup will more »

We mentioned this the other day, but it looks like it is now official. Saudi Arabia has banned the BlackBerry. Well, more specifically, they have banned some of the services and not the phones themselves. Nonetheless, they are taking part of what makes the BlackBerry the BlackBerry — the data services. And unfortunately, Saudi Arabia more »

It looks like the BlackBerry has been severely limited in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. Well, more accurately, the BlackBerry will soon be limited. Both nations are unhappy that they are unable to monitor such communications via the handsets. This is because the Blackberry handsets automatically send the encrypted data to computer servers more »