More Smartphones News

• 12 December 2008

• News: RIM deal to push video to BlackBerry

  BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) hopes to add a content delivery platform to its offerings with a planned acquisition of Chalk Media.

• 11 December 2008

• News: T-Mobile announces RIM BlackBerry Curve 8900

  To no one's great surprise, given that it is already selling the Curve 8900 in Germany, T-Mobile has announced that will be offering the latest RIM BlackBerry Curve business smartphone in the UK. What is surprising is that T-Mobile will start selling the handset from tomorrow - a week ahead of network operator rival 02.

• News: Nokia Comes with Music DRM cracked

  A software company claims it can legally bypass Microsoft's Digital Right Management system that stops digital music files download using Nokia's Comes with Music service, being burnt to CD or transferred to other digital audio players.

• News: Steve Jobs 'wrong' on netbook sales

  According to the latest smartphone sales numbers from Gartner and DisplaySearch's netbook sales numbers, 4.7 million iPhones were shipped in Q3 2008 while a whopping 5.6 million netbooks were sold in the same period.

• News: Microsoft Zune Phone to rival Apple's iPhone

  Rumours that Microsoft is considering launching a Zune Phone have surfaced again.

• 10 December 2008

• News: Sony Ericsson joins Open Handset Alliance

  Sony Ericsson is just one of 14 companies that have joined the Open Handset Alliance, which supports Google's Android platform.

• News: Vodafone offers £20m for navigation firm Wayfinder

  Vodafone has put in an offer of 239million Swedish kronor (£19.7million) to purchase navigational software manufacturer Wayfinder.

• 09 December 2008

• News: 02 announces BlackBerry Curve 8900

  02 has confirmed that it will be offering the RIM BlackBerry Curve 8900 business smartphone to UK customers. It will be onsale in the UK from 20 December.

• News: 30,000 PDAs to help police fight street crime

  Police officers across the UK are being given PDAs in an effort to reduce paper form filling for officers out on the beat.

• News: Outrage over drug dealing iPhone app

  A drug dealing game for Apple's iPhone has raised concerns.

• 08 December 2008

• News: Carphone Warehouse co-founder quits

  The co-founder of The Carphone Warehouse has quit following concerns over the use of his shares in the company.

• News: Google sells unlocked G1 phones for £266

  Google has made available an unlocked version of the G1 Google Android mobile phone. The Android Dev Phone 1 will be available to Google Android developers in the UK and elsewhere.

• News: BlackBerry Curve 8900 Titanium onsale next week

  Carphone Warehouse will sell the RIM BlackBerry Curve 8900 handset to UK users from next Friday. The mobile phone vendor has confirmed an official launch date of 20 December.

• News: Nokia to use Linux in more mobile phones

  Nokia is considering using Linux software on some of its handsets.

• News: Apple iPhone sales quadruple in Q3

  Apple's iPhone stood apart from the rest of the market in the third quarter of 2008, with strong gains for the handset despite Q3 showing the weakest ever year-on-year growth in the smartphone market, according to Gartner.

• News: Apple hits back in iPhone 3G lawsuit

  Apple and AT&T have filed separate claims asking that the iPhone 3G lawsuit brought against the companies by Avi Koschitzki be dismissed. The lawsuit claims slow 3G speeds and hairline cracks that develop in the iPhone casing.

• 05 December 2008

• News: New lawsuit targets Apple's iPhone 3G speeds

  pple is facing another lawsuit claiming it misrepresented the data speed of its iPhone 3G.

• News: Icephone is 'Swiss Army Knife' of handsets

  A British Army-inspired smartphone which unfolds to three panels is set to be launched commercially next year

• News: Open-source Symbian OS expected in 2010

  The Symbian Foundation is on track to take over Symbian as an open-source operating system in 2010 and will put out its first distribution of software for developers in the first half of next year, its executive director said on Thursday.

• 04 December 2008

• News: HTC targets iPhone factor with design acquisition

  HTC, the smartphone maker behind T-Mobile's G1 'Google phone', has bought San Francisco-based One & Co, a design company it worked with on the development of the HTC Touch Diamond.

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