Late this afternoon, Canada’s TELUS Mobility formally announced that it too has launched the BlackBerry 8230 Pearl Flip. Starting at $49.99 on a three-year contract and going all the way up to $449.99 contract-free, TELUS is hoping the youth market in Canada will receive the clam shell smartph...

The last and only time we talked about the RAZR3 aka Ruby was when we reported that Motorola had pulled the plug on it in order to allocate more resources towards developing Android-based handsets. But now thanks to Mobile-Review, press images of the RAZR3, apparently to be named the Ruby VE1, have ...

Amazon.com got the ball rolling last month when they announced frustrating-free packaging. Sony has now also promised death to clamshell packaging. Sony says they will soon be changing its products packaging in order to make it more user-friendly as well as environmentally responsible. They released...

Filed under: Business Earlier this year, CNET published a report stating that the retail usage of clamshell packaging (sealed hard plastic shells often used to pack electronics) is nearing extinction due to high production costs and environmental concerns. Amazon was the first to switch over to "Fru...

Had we known that eliminating those frustrating, potentially dangerous hard clamshell packages would simply take a nudge, we would've picketed for action years ago. Shortly after Amazon took and stand and announced its own initiative to cut back on wasteful, hard-to-open packaging, Sony has confirme...

Amazon.com has launched a new initiative dubbed Frustration-Free Packaging. The iniative is designed to make it easier for customers to free products from their packaging. Amazon is focusing first on two kinds of items: those enclosed in hard plastic cases known as "clamshells" and those secured wit...

With rising food and oil prices, Nokia takes the reverse trend from their Vertu line to churn out low tech phones like the 6205 phone. There are some leaked product shots over at Howard Forums and its looks like it will be out soon…The Nokia 6205 clamshell phone is just an average-sized clamsh...

Don't know about you, but I find the recently announced Nokia 6600 Fold to be the single best looking Nokia clamshell phone to date. The reason is obvious — Nokia isn't usually known for its good looking clamshell phones. Yeah, it's true and I'm sad that's the case, bu...

I'm not much of a religious man, but every time I have to break out the kitchen shears to open a set of earbuds or a spare controller, I consider joining a faith just so I can believe in a hell just so whoever designed clamshell packaging can burn in it. And if you've skinned your knuckles trying to...

Samsung seems confident the Soul is ready for prime time, hence it wants to extend the brand to new model(s). For people who prefer clamshell over slider form factor, the Korean giant announced the G400 Soul, the similar looking device with same silver-black color combo. Instead of sporting the inte...