With Mobile World Congress taking place in a couple of weeks, it is expected we'll be treated to a raft of new phone announcements, and Samsung are getting ready to announce the new Galaxy S 2.
Reuters reports that for the first time in over ten years, Nokia's Symbian is no longer the world's number one smartphone platform. The new king? Google's Android.
Android 2.3.1 Gingerbread has been finally released for iPhone 3G, 2G and iPod touch (1st-gen). Android ports for iPhone 4, iPad and iPhone 3GS are said to be coming soon.
Microsoft sold over 2 million Windows Phone 7 (WP7) powered devices during the last quarter according to Greg Sullivan, senior product manager at Microsoft.
With Facebook's 600m users it was surely only a matter of time before the king of the social networks decided it wanted to enter the mobile phone fray, and according to City AM that time could well be as early as February.
This year's Pwn2Own contest will play host to a new world of mobile phone hacking when security researcher Ralf-Philip Weinmann shares a new way of hacking a cellular device, writes ReadWriteWeb's Sarah Perez.
Shortly after announcing their fourth quarter earnings, Google announced that their Co-Founder Larry Page is going to replace Eric Schmidt as CEO of the company. Schmidt is going to takeover as Chairman of Google.
Developer Steven Troughton-Smith has managed to run MeeGo OS on Google’s Nexus S phone. He has managed to run it via rootfs image on the internal memory, which means that you don’t have to risk flashing your phone to get it running alongside Android 2.3 Gingerbread. This feat also marks MeeGo as the first non-Android based OS to have been ported successfully on the Nexus S.
Google has released an official video on their YouTube channel, showing off the upcoming Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” which seems to be designed entirely for Tablets.
The year 2010 is now coming to a close. Since I got to play with many different gadgets, I thought it will be nice if I summarized a list of my personal favorites from the year 2010.
