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Google unveiled its mobile payment plans today, with private field trials starting in San Francisco and New York followed by a public launch sometime during the summer on the Nexus S. The system lets smartphones with NFC (near-field communication) chips use wireless technology to transmit...

Verizon is launching a seriously appealing group of smartphones today, and the HTC Trophy is among them. The Trophy is Verizon's first Windows Phone 7 smartphone, and it's a lovely piece. It has HTC's signature design that reminds us ... More...

NTT DoCoMo reveals the Fujitsu LOOX F-07C, which is capable of using Symbian OS or Windows 7 on a 4-inch touch screen. It's not as painful as you think. More...

Carrier NTT DoCoMo unveiled their massive phone line-up today for Japan. Among them the Windows 7 Handset stands out in an odd way. This not a Windows Phone, it literally runs Windows. To be exact it... More...

The number of smartphones on the market today continues to grow at a very impressive rate. It seems like each time you check the news, there are a few more smartphones coming to the market. With all the smartphones that are available to users, makers and carriers need to do something to set...

Yes, 'tis quite a shock for a Monday morning, but it turns out the dual-booting Fujitsu LOOX F-07C smartphone is indeed legit. According to NTT DoCoMo's preliminary spec sheet, this 7.69-ounce landscape slider handles both Symbian and Windows 7 (Home Premium, 32-bit Japanese edition) with its...

In this video, Nikolai Tillmann and Michal Moskal, from the Research in Software Engineering group (RiSE) at Microsoft Research, present Link Removed for Windows Phone 7. TouchStudio is a radically new Windows Phone software development environment, bringing the excitement of the first...

RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis ceded the stage partway through his keynote address to his competitor, who proceeded to announce that Microsoft's Bing Search and Bing Maps products will be "fully integrated" into the BlackBerry platform later this year. Rather than simply supply a stand-alone app on...

Samsung isn't taking Apple's copycat accusations lying down. The electronics giant has filed suits against the Cupertino, Calif.-based company alleging the iPhone and iPad trespass on its patents. The Samsung countersuit comes just days after Apple flat-out accused the company of stealing...

Link Removed due to 404 Error South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. said it is suing Apple Inc. for patent rights violations, only days after Apple sued Samsung for the same reason. Samsung is accusing Apple of violating its rights to 10 smartphone...

Today’s LogicBUY deal offers savings on the newly released HTC Arrive Windows 7 smartphone. The Arrive has a 3.6” (480X800) touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard, and a 5MP phone. Inside is a 1GHz processor, 16GB built-in memory, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, GPS, and more. Sprint offers this phone...

Global smartphone sales will soar 50 per cent this year compared to 2010, with Google's Android set to extend its lead as the world's most popular operating system for the devices, according to a study released Tuesday by research group IDC. Link Removed - Invalid URL

San Francisco - Global smartphone sales will soar 50 per cent this year compared to 2010, with Google's Android set to extend its lead as the world's most popular operating system for the devices, according to a study released Tuesday by research group IDC. Link Removed

The trend was obvious Link Removed - Invalid URL, and now it finally happened: Android is the most popular smartphone platform among U.S. subscribers. According to comScore's data, Google's Android rose from 23.5% market share in October 2010 to 31.2% in January 2011, enough to securely grab...

I'm continuing to explore the world of Windows 7 phones. HTC makes great phones - Android and Windows 7, after making a slew of Windows Mobile phones for years. More...

In a product launch that had been hinted at for several days through a social media campaign, Sprint Nextel announced Thursday that it would begin selling its first smart phone operating on Microsoft’s Windows 7 platform next month. The $200 HTC Arrive comes with the usual two-year contract and...

AdvanceTC has unveiled a slick looking little computer called the Magix W3 that is hailed as the world’s first pocketable Windows 7 microcomputer with integrated telephony. What that means is the little device is like a fat smartphone, but packs in the full Windows 7 Home OS along with hardware...

Wrigley, Hancock, Millennium, Gallo, Sterling, Rosemount, Silver Oak, Peju and Opus One. What are we rattling off? Oh, just the list of codenames from one of the largest leaks we've ever seen out of Dell . WPCentral and Android Central got their hands on alleged smartphone and tablet roadmaps...

If you haven't upgraded to a smartphone running Qualcomm's 1 gigahertz Snapdragon processors yet, there's no rush. Source: Yahoo! News

Microsoft's widely viewed as a tad late to the smartphone market with its Windows 7 phone, entering a market dominated by iPhone apps as Google's Android platform also rapidly gains marketshare. But according to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft chief exec Steve Ballmer was at Barcelona's...