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"As mobile manufacturers scramble to get Ice Cream Sandwich onto their top-end handsets, Google is hard at work adapting the latest version of Android for their own Nexus S phone, which until the recently release of the Galaxy Nexus was their flagship device."

"Android owners looking for a fully-integrated response to Apple's Siri will have to wait a little longer. Google announced on Tuesday that it acquired a company called Clever Sense, the maker of the app Alfred, which serves as a digital personal assistant. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. "

FIFA 12 has landed on the robot in the past. Well, on a robot and one, at least - Sony Ericsson Ericsson play.

"Young consumers "fed up with iPhones" will flock to Nokia's new Windows Phone offering, according to an executive from the Finnish company."

Facebook for Operating system mobile phone has long been the buttocks of many cracks.

"After Samsung made its Android Ice Cream Sandwich update plans public, many Galaxy S owners complained about the absence of their device on the list. After all, it could hardly be described as 'past it', and the new version of the OS had been seen running on rooted phones (making it clear the hardware could support it)."

"Today's smartphones perform a number of functions for users. They can be used to surf the net, send messages, and keep updated with social media and for gaming. More and more these devices are being relied upon to serve as gaming tools. Smartphones can easily have apps installed on them which are games. In fact, some of today's most popular games began as a mobile phone game app. Revenue data is showing that more games are being purchased for mobile phones such as the iPHone or Android phones than for handheld games such as the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP."

"This time last year, there were two main Apple-related rumours, the iPad 2 and the launch of the iPad-only newspaper The Daily. The publication had a rocky start but after a few delays, it was eventually revealed at a special event held at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, a venue soon to be used again for Apple's recently announced education event."

"Samsung is reportedly preparing to send two new Android phones to the UK, ready to enter both the mid and upper range. While neither are 'new' releases, as they've both been previously announced, this is the first time we've got confirmation of a national release for one of them."

"Lawyers must love the mobile industry. The cash that comes their way from the myriad of legal battles that go on between mobile manufacturers is surely more than enough to keep them in shiny shoes and staid suits for a lifetime. And seeing as though Apple are involved in most of these legal spats, we'd be surprised if there wasn't a big vat full of dollars marked 'Brief Fund' somewhere at Camp Cuprtino."

""Round 1: Fight" In a flashback to the times when scrolling fighting games were the greatest thing on the face of the earth, the undoubted 'Daddy' of fighting games was Street Fighter (and to be fair, whilst the film - which for some reason starred Kylie Minogue and Jean Claude Van Damme - wasn't ever going to win an Oscar, it was still a decent watch)."

"The Orange Monte Carlo, or ZTE Skate, was heralded as the follow-up to the hugely popular Orange San Francisco, however it now looks like the 4.3-inch screen monster is in addition to a new mid-range handset in Orange's line-up, as the San Francisco II has made a brief appearance on the network's website."

"Remember when you were a kid. You've eaten all your tea, your mum goes into the freezer and she pulls out an Ice Cream Sandwich for dessert. Happy times eh? Well HTC owners, prepare to return to that level of pure unadulterated joy, now that the Ice Cream Sandwich is back (albeit in smartphone form, making it almost certainly inedible) and that the Taiwanese tech lords have announced exactly which of its handsets will be getting a dose of the new Android 4.0 operating system."

"Samsung have announced that their latest smartphone, the Galaxy S II, is in line for a bit of Android Ice Cream Sandwich action."

"Shop to be the first globally to sell debut handset to run off Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich when it hits shelves at 8am"

"The Samsung Galaxy Nexus has gone on sale, with the UK getting the first opportunity to buy the third official Google Phone complete with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Retailer Phones 4U grabbed the exclusive on the 4.65-inch Super AMOLED HD smartphone, offering the handset from free with a £36 ($57) per month, two-year agreement."

"We already know that Siri does most of its processing server-side, and that Apple's claims of hardware as a limiting factor are tenuous at best. But new research from French developer Applidium reveals that Apple is truly full of it."