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A side-by-side look at two high-end smartphones.

Mobile phone firm Nokia has launched Lumia 800 smartphone in a move to regain its lost smartphone market, which is currently dominated by Apple's iPhone and other Android smartphones.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Apple the popular slide-to-unlock feature, boasted by many smartphones nowadays, on a touchscreen device. Apple had already been granted a similar patent before. Another major patent win would obviously strengthen Apple's position. The patent (U.S. Patent No. 8,406,721) is entitled Unlocking a Device by Performing Gestures on an Unlock Image, and has an open language as follows:

In October, three musketeers in the smartphone market rushed before the eyes of smartphone watchers - Motorola Droid Razr, Samsung Galaxy Nexus and iPhone 4S. Apple's iPhone 4S, unveiled on Oct. 4, just a day before the company's co-founder Steve Jobs died, smashed its previous sales records by selling 400 million devices over the launch weekend. Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the latest Samsung and Google flagship smartphone, which was unveiled in Hong Kong on Oct. 19, is likely to be launched in...

On Friday, we have come across a post by MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev Team on his Twitter page, in which the jailbreaker revealed a preliminary iPhone 4S jailbreak with screenshots. The first picture shows a terminal window with root access to the device, while the second screenshot shows Cydia on the iPhone 4S.

Stock index futures pointed to a weaker open for equities on Friday after strong gains in the previous session, with futures for the S&P 500, the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq 100 down 0.4 to 0.5 percent.

The global cellphone market grew 12.8 percent in the third quarter, showing the second-lowest growth rate over the past two years due to conservative consumer spending and delayed smartphone purchases, research firm IDC said on Friday.

Pocketnow has revealed some interesting leaked BlackBerry videos posted on Vimeo that show a revolutionary smartphone device. The overall design of the handset is simple, sleek and cool -- a full-screen smartphone with edge-to-edge display -- but the on-screen phone functions seem overly basic.

Verizon Wireless Thursday started accepting pre-order for Motorola Droid RAZR. Consumers will start getting the phone by the second week of November.

Pre-orders start for the Gingerbread powered, 4.3-inch wide, 4G LTE enabled phone. The Droid RAZR will release Nov. 10.

Though the Nexus One is just under 2 years old, Google says the device is simply too old and will not be receiving Android 4.0.

Apple patent could be a weapon against Samsung and HTC, who Apple already has multiple claims against.

Android 4.0 will be pushed out to the Nexus S, but not the Nexus One that came out only two years ago.

Apple is ready for 4G speeds on the iPhone according Taiwan based Digitimes.

The popular game we all know is hitting developing economies to target the non-smartphone market.

The Lumia smartphones are expected to arrive next month.

Nokia has unveiled the two new Lumia smartphones – Lumia 800 and 710 – that will make use of Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform. Nokia’s Stephen Elop said that the company has high hopes with the launch of the two new devices.

Sharp Corp reported a 44 percent rise in quarterly earnings, beating analysts' expectations, but cut its full year forecast as shriveling domestic television sales offset growing demand for smartphones and tablets.

Android Market now accounts for more mobile app downloads than Apple and its App Store, thanks to Google's open-source strategy, according to ABI Research. The Android platform was responsible for 44 percent of all mobile app downloads in the second quarter of 2011, as opposed to iOS's 31 percent.

On Nov. 3, HTC will release its latest Verizon smartphone, the HTC Rezound, aka the HTC Vigor, aka the HTC Thunderbolt 2, aka the phone that has had more names than P.Diddy...and the Galaxy Nexus Prime, for that matter. The HTC Rezound is scheduled for a release date in Verizon Wireless stores Nov. 10.

IBM’s Netezza unit introduced a high-powered analytics accelerator intended to help wireless carriers solve crucial network management glitches.