Cell phones are purring Hello Kitty. On the 30th anniversary of the popular Japanese cartoon cat, and with holiday shopping in full swing, handset maker Nokia, No. 1 U.S. operator Cingular Wireless ...

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Meitu, the firm behind the eponymous “beautifying” app that touches up your blemishes, is back at it again. But this time around, the company is launching a new phone: The Meitu M8. The M8, the ...

Sick of the same old metal or plastic slab phone design? Prefer something cuter and cat-related? Good news! There’s a new Hello Kitty phone coming, and it couldn’t be more Hello Kitty if it tried.

Hello Kitty and Space Invaders are both pop culture icons from Japan in the 1970s, but nobody thought to put them together—until now. Here we see the two have made sweet love and bred a Space Invaders ...

Back in August 2018, Bublar Group and Sanrio GmbH revealed that a Hello Kitty AR game, along the lines of titles like Minecraft Earth and Pokemon GO, was in the works. Now, that game has a title and ...

Tired of 6-inch phablets and hyper-powerful flagship phones? Perhaps something cuter is in order. If you happen to live in Japan, this official — and officially kawaii (that's "cute") — dumbphone ...