LG reveals its first Android handset

Raising its stake in the heated battle over the local smartphone market, LG Electronics, the world’s third-largest mobile phone maker, yesterday opened a smartphone based on Google’s Android operating system. Korean clienteles have access to merely one other Android-based smartphone, the Motoroi from U.S.-based Motorola. That makes LG’s latest handset the first locally made Android-based smartphone. (Read More)

Gowalla Scores an App Hat Trick

In the last couple of days leading up to the South By Southwest interactive (SXSWi) festival in Austin, TX, the location-based social networking service Gowalla has released new apps for the Google Android and Palm WebOS platform, as well …(follow link to read)

Apple vs. HTC Lawsuit a Warning Shot to Disrupt Competitors?

Fortune quotes Oppenheimer’s Yair Reiner, who thinks Apple’s patent infringement suit against Google Android and Microsoft Windows Phone manufacturer HTC was a warning shot meant to disrupt competitors’ roadmaps:

“Starting in January, Apple launched a series of C-Level discussions with tier-1 handset makers to underscore its growing displeasure at seeing its iPhone-related IP [intellectual property] infringed. The lawsuit filed against HTC thus appears to be Apple’s way of putting a public, lawyered-up exclamation point on a series of blunt conversations that ..read more

iPhone No Longer “Mobile”, Big Enough to be Own Gaming Platform Now

I already mentioned I’m on my way to GDC 2010 to cover the iPhone panel, and that iPhone gaming is getting big, so it’s interesting to see CNET reenforce just how big it’s getting:

strikingly absent among those 18 [Mobile Gaming] panels are any that deal with game development specifically for the iPhone. And why? Because for the first time, the GDC advisory board decided that Apple’s smartphone is an important enough platform to warrant its own summit. And it filled ..read more

Review: Motorola Backflip

AT&T lands the Motorola Backflip as its first Android handset. Based on our experiences, it’s tough to recommend to anyone other than the most diehard Motorola and AT&T fans.(follow link to read)

Apple’s market lucks: Do they need a Verizon iPhone or the 4G now?

Up till newly Apple had observed irresistible in the market for cell phones, but latest statistics released divulge that Google Android are starting to make an influence on their lead. Android gadgets, for instance the Nexus One and Droid are now doing well even though the Apple iPhone is still at the topmost of the (Read More)

All CrackBerry.com Gets For it’s 3rd Birthday is… a BlackBerry Slider?! — The Competition

CrackBerry.com celebrates its 3rd birthday this week… and all they get is a BlackBerry Slider?!

First, we’d like to wish our sibling site, and best frenemy forever, CrackBerry.com and their fearless leader, CrackBerry Kevin a very happy 3rd birthday! They’re the #1 site for BlackBerry users… and abusers! for a reason, and they’re giving away a TON of free stuff to celebrate. If you have a BlackBerry in your other pocket, or know someone who rocks the pushy keyboard, get on ..read more

Games Way More Popular on iPhone than Other Smartphones

Anyone surprised that games are way more popular on the iPhone than on competing plaforms? Mplayit has put out some interesting stats, not only on what apps are popular with their Facebook sharing users, but what kinds of apps are popular on the various platforms they monitor. While on Android and BlackBerry, non-game apps account for 83% and 67% of popular titles, on the iPhone they’re only 36%. That leaves 64% for games.

That might be a concern, frankly, if the ..read more

Motorola Backflip Ditches Google Search for Yahoo

AT&T’s first Android handset is the Motorola Backflip. AT&T has removed all the embedded Google search widgets and apps that are part of the Android platform and replaced them with Yahoo instead. The Yahoo search widget leaves out some …(follow link to read)

Apple suing phone maker HTC over iPhone patents, HTC makes rival phone for Google

Apple litigating handset creator HTC over iPhone copyrights CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple is litigating Taiwan’s HTC, saying the phone creator has desecrated copyrights connected to the iPhone. HTC Corp. was the first company to manufacture cell phone based on Google Inc.’s Android operating system, which as emerged as a momentous competitor for the iPhone. It is also making the Nexus One handset (Read More)

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