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MeeGo devices are inching closer to reality – LG will be showing off prototype devices, both phones and tablets, during the MeeGo conference in San Francisco scheduled for the end of next month. LG have signed up for the MeeGo conference and...

According to the analysts from IDC, the global mobile phone market grew by almost 20% compared to Q1 of last year. This is mostly due to the skyrocketing in smartphone sales, especially in emerging markets all over the world. The 20 percent...

Google announced the Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread update for the Google Nexus S, which will become available over the next few weeks. The biggest new feature is the addition of video chat to Google Talk. The v2.3.4 update will be available for...

Motorola Mobility is out on its own in the world – Q1 of 2011 was its first quarter as an independent company. Its net revenue went up by a third year over year but Moto is still in the red. On the upside, the number of units shipped...

HTC is riding the Android wave all the way to record sales and profit for Q1 of 2011. Year over year, profit (after tax) and the number of units shipped nearly tripled. Even HTC themselves were a little surprised by how well they did. HTC is...

Google talk has been a fixture on Android devices since the birth of the OS. Now, Google finally took the messenger functionality to the next level with the announcement of an update which will bring video calling capability to it much like Apple's...

A leaked presentation spilled the beans on the next generation of Qualcomm Snapdragon mobile chips and it all looks to be coming up roses. All four next-gen chips are based on the upcoming 28mm Krait architecture. The MSM8270, the MSM8930, the...

LG have published their quarterly results for the first part of 2011 and although they have beaten their own volume of sales from the same time last year, they've made less of a profit and continue to struggle coming off the back end of 2010. LG...

In a slew of HTC leaks today we see the smudgy pics of two unannounced phones and we hear about the real identity of the HTC Doubleshot, which recently made the headlines on its own. The Doubleshot will be called My Touch 4G Slide in tune with...

The white iPhone 4 is now available both online and in stores and in 28 countries stretching across several continents. We were eager to gather some of the first photos and videos of the new device. Well, technically, it's only the color that's new...

Samsung is throwing a party for the domestic launch of its super-droid, the Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II. The phone is already on sale in the UK and S. Korea and will launch in another 118 countries soon, with a total of 140 operators. You can...

Apple’s App Store has held the top spot pretty much since the dawn of app stores but the times they are a-changin’. The Android Market has already surpassed the App Store in terms of free apps and analysts from Distimo estimate it will soon overtake...

In the last few days Apple took lots of negative feedback concerning the location tracking affair. Today Apple released a Q&A statement, which admits to the tracking and calls it a 'bug'. An update to fix it is on the way though. There are ten...

Open-source Android OS is potentially vulnerable to malicious apps, sounds like common sense. According to Kaspersky though, the mobile OS is currently invaded by no less than 70 types of malware apps and there will be a lot more very...

Apple has finally confirmed the launch date of the white iPhone 4 – tomorrow, 28th April. The white iPhone 4 (GSM and CDMA) will hit the shelves in 28 countries on the same price as its black sibling. The wait is over. It seems Apple has...

Samsung Russia announced a trio of DUOS phones, which is the companies line of dual-SIM phones. The three phones are aimed at the low-end Russian market – the cheapest of which will sell for 2000 rubles ($75 or so) and the priciest for 4000 rubles...

Today Nokia announced it's moving 3000 Symbian developers to Accenture group and dismisses 4000 other employees, but promises them a solid social responsibility program to help them through. Nokia plans a big reorganization and moving 3000...

Nielsen asked US consumers about smartphone OS' during the first quarter of this year and found out that Android has been the most popular with new buyers lately and the most desirable OS too. Interestingly, the number of people who answered “Not...

HTC Doubleshot's name entered the rumorland a few days ago in a very interesting way. It was found into a six megapixel camera sample taken in Washington by an HTC employee. The picture was uploaded on Picasa and apparently the exif info wasn't...

The megapixel race of yesterday is the smartphone processor race of today and it seems every one wants in. Today it's LG's turn to get all serious about CPUs as it just got the license to use the ARM Cortex processor and ARM Mali GPU. The...