In case you didn't already know, Nokia just announced its first Windows Phone devices. While an awful lot of people are assessing whether the Lumia series could dig the Finnish...

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Nokia has just announced a new lineup of mobile phones at its Nokia World 2011 conference and it is calling them “Asha”. The lineup consists of four phones that will...

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The Times Group, a national media organisation in India, has announced an exclusive two-year agreement with sports content provider Perform. According to the terms, it will bring EPL highlights to...

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Disney, which has been doing business as an MVNO in Japan (Disney Mobile) since 2008, took the wraps off two new Android phones [JP] yesterday. The DM010SH will be rolled out in Japan in October, followed by the DM011SH in December (prices tbd).

Technically, the DM010SH is based on the Sharp's AQUOS 009SH [JP] and features Android 2.3, a 4-inch LCD with QHD resolution, an 8MP CMOS camera, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, a microSDHC slot, a digital TV tuner, an e-wallet function, infrared communication, etc.

Read More: Disney Mobile Japan Announces Two (Cute) Android Phones

We've already shown you the three coolest smartphones Japanese carrier SoftBank announced for its home market today, the LUMIX Phone 101P from Panasonic, Sharp's AQUOS PHONE 102SH, and the DELL STREAK PRO 101 DL. But SoftBank actually introduced a total of nine new Android models today (plus a feature phone).

Here's the carrier's entire fall/winter line-up for the Japanese market.

Read More: 9 Android Phones For Japan: SoftBank’s Entire Fall/Winter Line-up

Japan’s second biggest carrier KDDI took the wraps off [JP] a total of eight new cell phones for the domestic market today. To be more concrete, the telco (which is likely to become the second in Japan to provide the iPhone 5) showed six Android handsets (the Arrows Z is the most impressive) and two feature phones.

Here are all models that KDDI showed today:

Read More: Japan Gets 8 New Cell Phones: KDDI’s Entire Winter Line-Up

Microsoft, the world largest software maker, has accused Motorola of using technology derived from Microsoft’s inventions in Android-based smartphones. Microsoft has requested the International Trade Commission (ITC) in Washington to halt the imports of certain Motorola phones due to infringement of seven of its patents.

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It wasn't that long ago when the vast majority of phones were feature phones with little or no graphics capabilities. And, features phone are still a huge market and important in developing nations. Despite the lack of high resolution graphics and GPS in many of these phones, they are not being left out of the ability to make use of geo-location and local search. Nokia Beta Labs released an app for Nokia's Series 40, S60 and Symbian phones to get such information even when GPS hardware is not av [...]

Read More: Nokia Nearby: Hyper-local Search for Feature Phones

In the tradition of the late great Johnny Carson's Carnac the Magnificent providing answers before the question is asked.Answer: "Jornada, iPaq, webOS".Question: "Name three mobile brands HP has killed".


Read More: HP Jettisons webOS Phones & TouchPad Tablet. Which Tablet is Next to Go?

A feature not in the Android camera app is the ability to take panoramic photos. Pano is a new Android app that makes it very easy to take panoramic photos. You can buy it now from the Android Market for around $2.00 for a limited time.


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Feature phones are awfully smart for phones that are not smartphones. The Vodafone 555 Blue with its dedicated Facebook button is a good example. However, we are starting to see the feature phone category getting pushed into a corner by low priced smartphones. A pair of news items this week indicates that Nokia will be using a lower-end version of Microsoft's Windows Phone for low-priced phones. All Things D's Ina Fried reported that:Exclusive: Nokia to Exit Symbian, Low-End Phone Businesses in [...]

Read More: Feature-Phone Priced Nokia Windows Phones in 2012?

Skype's developers certainly have been busy. They released Skype for iPad earlier this week and released an update to Skype for Android today.Skype 2.1 for Android enables video on majority of Android devicesThe version 2.1 update shows the progress Skype's developers have made in dealing with Android's increasingly worse platform fragmentation problem. This update adds video calling support to 17 more Android devcies includin gthe HTC Evo 3D,HTC Flyer (tablet), Samsung Galaxy S & S II as w [...]

Read More: Skype for Android 2.1 Adds Video Calling Support for 17 More Phones and Tablets

With more than 250 million mobile users, Facebook knows that it has to be on every mobile phone in the planet to keep riding the social wave as the web becomes more mobile. And that means more than just being on iPhone and Android phones.

Today, Facebook is addressing the 2,500 feature phones out there that can download Java apps with a new app called Facebook for Every Phone. It includes a lightweight News Feed, an inbox for your Facebook Messages, and a way to upload and share photos directl [...]

Read More: Facebook Launches Free Mobile Apps On 2,500 Java Phones

It seems like some time in the last 5 months or so, all of the major Android handset makers had the same idea: they, too, needed a BlackBerry-esque QWERTY candybar handset. It's as if RIM's self-fueled fiery demise made them realize that BlackBerry owners might be abandoning ship soon, so they adopted a form factor that would make the transition to Android that much smoother.

While Motorola had the Droid Pro way back in Q3 of last year, Samsung joined the keyboarded-slab party just back in Marc [...]

Read More: LG Announces Two New Android Gingerbread Phones: Optimus Pro, and Optimus Net

Lookout, the mobile security company that specializes in anti-malware apps for Android, looked at the problem of people losing their cell phones and determined the top 10 U.S. cities where phone losses occur (either simply losing it or by theft).Lost and Found: The Challenges of Finding Your Lost or Stolen PhoneThe top 10 cities are:1. Miami
2. New York
3. Los Angeles
4. Phoenix
5. Sacremento
6. Chicago
7. Dallas
8. Houston
9. Philadelphia
10. TampaTh [...]

Read More: Top 10 Cities Where Phones are Lost or Stolen Identified by Lookout Security

Facebook continues to improve on their support for Java-based feature phones. They claim that the update the Facebook for Every Phone app works on more than 2500 different phone models.Facebook for Every PhoneThe app lets a feature phone user access the News Feed, Inbox and Photos. A new feature is the ability to also upload phones from a supported feature phone to Facebook.In order to encourage phone users to try the app, Facebook has negotiated a 90-day free data access period with a number of [...]

Read More: Facebook for Every Phone: Feature Phones Gain the Ability to Post Photos

During the Google I/O conference this past May we learned about the Android Open Accessory Protocol, which provides a way for Android devices to communicate with other devices over a USB connection. The protocol is available in Android 3.1 (Honeycomb) and Android 2.3.4. Today, HARMAN International Industries, which manufactures a variety of automotive entertainment products, announced their support for the Android Open Accessory Protocol.


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Facebook has today announced Facebook for Every Phone, an app for any Java enabled phone that allows access to most of Facebook's features to phones without a way to install native apps. The app will work on any phone that uses Java, servicing some 2,500 models of phones that have not previously had access to an official app for Facebook.To celebrate the launch of the app, Facebook is making data used by the app free for 90 days in many countries around the world.  The app has been special [...]

Read More: Facebook for Every Phone, a low cost, data-sipping app for Java phones

With more than 250 million mobile users, Facebook knows that it has to be on every mobile phone in the planet to keep riding the social wave as the web becomes more mobile. And that means more than just being on iPhone and Android phones.

Today, Facebook is addressing the 2,500 feature phones out there that can download Java apps with a new app called Facebook for Every Phone. It includes a lightweight News Feed, an inbox for your Facebook Messages, and a way to upload and share photos directl [...]

Read More: Facebook Launches Free Mobile Apps On 2,500 Java Phones