The lineup of cell phones has expanded a bit, but a significant number of what we see in that category are updates to existing models. The real innovation in the mobile phone world is in the area of smartphones where we see the Apple iPhone, Palm WebOS, Google Android, RIM BlackBerry, and Microsoft Windows Mobile devices taking us to places we have never been before. This holiday season there is a...

Research In Motion released a new WebKit-based browser, an attempt to beat back criticism that the company's BlackBerry smartphones have fallen behind the iPhone and phones running on Google's Android platform. During his keynote address at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis said the company expects the new browser to attract a wider audience to the...

SmartPhones are taking the mobile phone industry by storm. The most popular of these phone brands includes the Apple iPhone, Palm’s Pre and an increasing number of Google Android phones. The challenge for any developer is to build solutions that will run across all of these platforms. There may, however, be an easy way to deliver solutions that work consistently across all of these platforms...

Mobile World Congress is one of the biggest events for the mobile phone industry, so its only right that Android will have a prominent presence when MWC begins next month in Barcelona. Aside from the new phones slated to appear, count on several developer resources available from the Google Android team. Google will host an Android

And then there were four. Sprint and T-Mobile already offer smartphones that use Android, Googles mobile operating system. Verizon and Google just announced their intentions to collaborate and release two Android phones before the end of the year. Android is seen as a potentially formidable competitor to Apple and its iPhone, which is currently offered ...

Mobile entertainment company mSpot has begun offering full-length movies for streaming to mobile phones, including the Apple iPhone, BlackBerry and Google Android devices.

The iPhone has it. And so do BlackBerry smartphones. But now, Google has officially announced the availability of Google Maps with Street View for Nokia S60 and Windows Mobile phones. This is in line with the Google Street View Team’s recent international escapades to take photos of places in France, Italy, Spain, and Australia. Nokia S60

Google announced the launch of Google Maps for mobile 2.3 with Street View on Nokia S60 and Windows Mobile smartphones, expanding the application beyond its existing releases for the Android, BlackBerry, and iPhone platforms. The extension to S60 and WinMo devices coincides with the launch of recent Google Street View enhancements in international markets like France, Italy, Spain and Australia, w...

Acer is planning to enter the smartphone market, with their first mobile phones to be shown at this months Mobile World Congress. The Taiwan-based PC maker's smartphone push comes as competitors such as Dell plans to enter the handheld market to seek higher revenues, after witnessing the success of Apple's popular iPhone. Smartphones, high-end mobile phones that have many of the function...

Apple iPhone and Google Android phone owners can now watch live NBA games The National Basketball Association is now offering mobile phone owners the ability to watch entire live games for $40 per year. Just a few games into the 2009-2010 NBA season, this is the first time entire games are available for streaming only game