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Nokia is driving down the price of its touch-screen phones: Its latest, the 5230, will cost €149 (US$210) before operator subsidies and taxes. The phone has a 3.2-inch display and support for A-GPS (Assisted GPS) and HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) mobile broadband at 3.6M bits... More...

A postcard invitational featuring the Android OS' mascot is the newest indication that Motorola is poised to release a new Android handset (or handset s) this September. In recent years Moto's proprietary "dumb-phone" platform has been increasingly eclipsed by smartphones, and especiall... More...

Japanese electronics maker Epson Imaging Devices has agreed to plead guilty and pay a US$26 million fine for the company's role in a conspiracy to fix prices of thin film transistor-liquid crystal display panels sold to Motorola, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Epson, a subsidiary of Seiko Eps... More...

The U.S. International Trade Commission will investigate flash storage chips used by Apple, Research In Motion, Dell, Asus, Sony, Lenovo and other vendors after a company claiming five patents on flash technology sought to ban the importation of the chips and devices that use them. BTG Internation... More...

BlackBerry phones may soon get a new browser, now that Research In Motion has acquired Torch Mobile. The Toronto company is best known for its Iris browser, which is built on Webkit and currently runs on Windows Mobile phones. It also runs on Qtopia, the application development platform for Linux ... More...

Taiwan-based High Tech Computer (HTC) will launch seven smartphones that support China Mobile's next-generation mobile standard by the end of next year, executives said Monday. HTC will launch its first phone for the China-developed 3G standard, TD-SCDMA (Time-Division Synchronous Code Division Mul... More...

HTC Mega - more images and details 25 August 2009 Windows Mobile 6.5 confirmed OS The HTC Mega has appeared in a new photo along with confirmation that it will be based upon Microsoft's new Mobile 6.5 operating system.   The new image appears to be the first that shows the handset i... More...

Ask BlackBerry power users for their number one complaint about Research In Motion (RIM) handhelds, and nine times out of ten you'll get the same answer: The BlackBerry Browser. RIM's BlackBerry browser ships along with all BlackBerry devices and is the "mandatory-default" web-browsing ... More...

Blackberry Storm 2 - new videos 25 August 2009 RIM smartphone will incorporate Piezo technology The Blackberry Storm 2 has appeared in two new, rather lengthy, videos illustrating its new facilities including the newly revealed Piezo technology.   Yes, the Blackberry 2 has already... More...

HTC Click featured in video demo 24 August 2009 Handset spotted running Android Donut HTC's new handset, the Click , has been spotted within a video demo running the latest iteration of Android - Donut.   To be released by HTC either in September or October of this year, accordin... More...

Samsung announces messaging phone 24 August 2009 New design to be released into the UK Samsung has announced a new messaging phone that features a sliding QWERTY keyboard.   Resembling the Nokia Surge 6760 , the new Samsung B3310 handset includes a row of numerical keys positioned ... More...

Samsung to release low cost touchscreen phone 24 August 2009 New design to feature social sites access Samsung has announced a new, low cost, touchscreen handset design that is geared towards social sites such as MySpace, Facebook and YouTube, providing an ideal choice for   ... More...

Nokia launches Booklet 3G netbook 24 August 2009 First phone manufacturer to go for the laptop Well, Nokia made good on that promise to start making lappys - the Finnish manufacturer has just announced the Booklet 3G, a Windows-based mini-laptop that is a total first for mobi... More...

RealNetworks on Monday said it will submit its Rhapsody music-streaming application for the iPhone to Apple this week, perhaps as early as today. The application, which will run on both the iPhone and iPod Touch , lets Rhapsody subscribers listen to any of the 8-plus million tracks the servi... More...

Gresso luxury phones announced 21 August 2009 Designs inspired by Formula 1 racing Gresso, the Russian manufacturer of luxury mobile phones such as the Lady Gold  and Skeleton Gold handsets, has announced a new range of designs that, says the company, are based upon the sport of Fo... More...

This week on the PC World Podcast, editors Robert Strohmeyer, Tim Moynihan, Ginny Mies, and Darren Gladstone discuss a hodge-podge of the week's biggest tech news. You can download the podcast here . First up, Vogue model Liskula Cohen won a lawsuit this week to reveal the name of a blogger who... More...

In responses to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) inquiries about Google Voice, Apple Friday denied that it has rejected the application, AT&T said it played no part in Apple's iPhone application review process, and Google asked the agency to redact its answer about Google Voice's App ... More...

Samsung Symbian phone ?cancelled? 21 August 2009 Sister of Jet and Omnia in trouble? One of Samsung's expected smartphone releases may be in trouble with some observers, including the Unwired website, believing that the design has, in fact, been cancelled.   The handset, known as th... More...

Netherlands-based Android developer Layar has announced that its Layar Reality Browser 2.0 is now available globally. Layar Reality Browser is an augmented reality browser : That is, as you hold up your phone, it'll show pop-up information bubbles for nearby points of interest relative to your cu... More...

The iPhone 3.0 software update finally enabled iPhone apps to support turn-by-turn navigation. And now there are three apps on the market -- from TomTom, Navigon, and Sygic -- that provide turn-by-turn directions as well as embedding maps within their app. (That's important because if you lose your ... More...