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"Intel has told its investors that the first Medfield powered smartphone will launch later this week. The news was revealed during an earnings call with the company's CEO Paul Otellini, but he didn't elaborate any further on what, where or exactly when the phone would be revealed."

"It shouldn't come as a surprise to learn Samsung is milking the hype surrounding the Galaxy S III to the absolute maximum, starting with an invitation that gave nothing away sent at the beginning of last week, and continuing not only with a Facebook image and a cheeky tweet, but a pair of dedicated websites too."

"On the first day of BlackBerry World 2012 RIM CEO Thorsten Heins took the stage to formally open the event with his keynote speech. What did the Canadian smartphone manufacturer have to offer the audience?"

"It's good to know that despite the impending release of the Galaxy S III, Samsung hasn't forgotten about Windows Phone, as it has announced the Focus 2 for AT&T in the USA."

"It was less than a month ago that we last saw the HTC Golf, the device believed to be replacing the Wildfire S and initially expected to be named the Wildfire C. It had previously been outed through a decidedly strange picture snapped with its camera."

"The second day of the CTIA Wireless Convention in New Orleans has been a much quieter affair than the first. Day one saw announcements of several new devices from a variety of manufacturers but the focus has since moved towards keynote speeches from some of the industry's bigger players."

"Steve Jobs famously vowed to spend his dying breath and all of Apple's cash to destroy Google's Android operating system. In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, Google CEO Larry Page said that despite Jobs's rather public hatred, "the Android differences were actually for show." Page claimed that, "For a lot of companies, it's useful for them to feel like they have an obvious competitor and to rally around that. I personally believe that it's better to shoot higher. You don't want to be looking at your competitors. You want to be looking at what's possible and how to make the world better." The CEO shot down rumors that the two were bitter rivals, instead noting that "I had a relationship with Steve." Despite Jobs's ailing health at the time, Apple's co-founder reached out to Page for a casual talk. "He was quite sick. I took it as an honor that he wanted to spend some time with me," Page said. "I figured he wanted to spend time with his family at that point. He had a lot of interesting insights about how to run a company and that was pretty much what we discussed.""

"Point-and-click adventure Lume started life as a PC game, which developers State of Play have now successfully ported over to iOS. In the game you play Lumi, a little girl who visits her grandfather only to find him missing and all the electricity cut from his house. The only clue is a note on the door, which informs Lumi that he intends to power his home using his inventions, but has had a few problems along the way. He suggests Lumi try to help him, but she'll need to solve some puzzles in order to do so."

"HTC has used, or is at least rumoured to have used, the Ville codename before, as it was attached to the phone which would eventually become the HTC One S. Now, a new leak reported by BriefMobile has shown the specifications for the HTC Ville C."

"At its recent BlackBerry World conference RIM indicated that it was moving away from the traditional BlackBerry form factor and looking to build handsets featuring large touchscreens. CEO Thorsten Heins did say that the Canadian manufacturer was not going to abandon the physical keypad entirely but that the initial slew of BB10 Os devices will be full-touchscreen handsets."

"It doesn't currently have the mass advertising appeal of an Apple device, nor the business-savvy reputation which underpins Blackberry, but the creators of Android have good reason to shout about their success as this week saw the Android Market celebrate the downloading of its ten billionth app."

Huawei, the leading Chinese IT component manufacturer, has officially released Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 update for its latest U8860 Honor smartphone. This makes the company of economical smartphones the primary producer to launch the newest version of the Google operating system to a non-Nexus smartphone.

AT&T, the largest wireless telecom carrier of the United States, now has unveiled that the LG Nitro HD will be its primary True High-Definition screen and third LTE-talented smartphone, following the HTC Vivid and the Galaxy S2 Skyrocket.

"Hot on the heels of a leak showing a quad-core LG phone named the X3, is news that the company could also be planning to release a new Optimus 3D device, following the appearance of an LG phone codenamed CX2."

So far online betting and gambling has been a highly successful venture for online businesses but all of the profits have gone offshore due to the restrictions here in the states. Now that those restrictions are gone the potential revenue pulled into the states could be tens of billions of dollars.

Good news for the United Kingdom's consumers, O2, the giant online mobile retailer, has announced that it has just reduced the prices for both the Blackberry Bold 9900 and the Torch 9810.

The LG Optimus 2 has emerged on LG's the United States website devoid of any authorized details regarding its release. Sources believe that the company will be releasing the successor to the creative LG Optimus soon.

A picture of previously unidentified handset has surfaced on the web. The smartphone from LG, dubbed the LG Fantasy is widespread to run on the Microsoft's Windows Phone 7.5 Mango operating system and is highly anticipated to introduce in the Q1 of this year.

Apple's latest version of iPhone, the 4S is the most-accepted handset in the globe. While it is the only top-selling handset with gorgeous look of outstanding style, Google's Android OS is still struggling to acquire half of the international mobile market in Q4.

"The biggest auction of space on the British airwaves is to be held at the end of 2012, when telecoms companies will bid to acquire the spectrum they need to enable an explosion in the use of bandwidth-hungry smartphones and tablets."