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Weekend Gadget Watch: Canon PowerShot S90
Photo Acer beTouch E101 "Cheap, touchscreen, Windows Mobile smartphone" Considering hitting the shops at the weekend? Looking for inspiration? Check out the latest in our series of gadget mini-reviews, courtesy of... [06 Nov 2009]
Maemo and Android: Symbian's open source rivals up the pressure
News While Symbian continues to dominate the smartphone market it could soon be facing increasing competition from a new quarter - Maemo. There's no debating that the Symbian platform remains the daddy of the... [02 Nov 2009]
Photos: Top iPhone apps for business
Photo However, the App Store currently stocks more than 2,000 business apps and, with the iPhone currently dominating around 13 per cent of the smartphone market, the device's potential as a business tool can no longer be... [27 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Augmented reality
Cheat Sheet The Wikitude app (pictured below) made by Mobilizy was among the first to exploit AR in the smartphone world - it used the G1's hardware coupled with data from the Panoramio, Qype and Wikipedia web services to identify... [27 Oct 2009]
Weekend Gadget Watch: HTC Tattoo
Photo Budget touchscreen smartphone running Android Powerful Android smartphone for a low price; good social-networking features; ultra-customisable user interface; switchable covers that you can design... [23 Oct 2009]
Photos: New BlackBerry Bold-ly goes for European design
Photo "A little less bold" is how RIM's co-CEO has described the latest incarnation of its Bold smartphone (pictured above). According to Lazaridis, the things that really matter to smartphone consumers are... [21 Oct 2009]
It's a dog's life for police BlackBerrys
News The government has committed £80m to ramp up police smartphone use by funding the deployment of 30,000 mobile data devices by 2010 - with the Home Office's plan being to increase police visibility in communities by... [20 Oct 2009]
Photos: Google Android dual boots with Windows 7 on Acer netbook
Photo This week saw hardware maker Acer announcing the latest additions to its laptop and smartphone ranges. Acer has also shown off a smartphone running Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipset for low-power mobile... [16 Oct 2009]
Photos: Second coming for touchscreen BlackBerry
Photo RIM today announced the launch of the BlackBerry Storm2 smartphone, the company's second touchscreen handset. The device is the successor to the original Storm, launched last year and, like its predecessor, the Storm2 is... [15 Oct 2009]
BlackBerry Storm2: RIM's second touchscreen - this time with wi-fi
News BlackBerry-maker RIM has unveiled its second touchscreen device, the Storm2. The Storm2, announced in May this year, will be released exclusively on Vodafone's network on a £35 per month contract and will be available from 26 October,... [15 Oct 2009]
iPhone: Coming to Phones 4u for the first time
News The iPhone holds around 13 per cent of the smartphone market, according to the analyst. Phones 4u has confirmed it will start selling Apple's iPhone this year. The retailer announced yesterday it will begin selling the... [14 Oct 2009]
Photos: 10 of the best open source mobiles
Photo More than 60 per cent of the smartphone market now uses an open source OS, according to analyst house Juniper Research, which has noted a significant shift from proprietary to open source. Not so long ago, a... [12 Oct 2009]
Windows Phone is here: Microsoft gunning for smartphone rebirth
News Microsoft has announced the first devices to bear the Windows Phone brand are ready to hit the market. The Windows Phone brand covers handsets running on Windows Mobile 6.5, and is a shift away from the current Windows Mobile marketing. [07 Oct 2009]
Adobe's Flash coming to smartphones, netbooks
News Most major smartphone platforms will support the software - Google Android, Symbian, Palm WebOS and Windows Mobile - but Apple has yet to sign up. Flash is ubiquitous on the desktop - now Adobe is hoping it can repeat... [05 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Symbian
Cheat Sheet There was pressure on another front too: Apple's creation of the App Store put third-party applications and services at the centre of the smartphone. Any technology you can think of will have seen considerable changes in... [01 Oct 2009]
