Hours before Mobile World Congress officially kicks off, Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) announced a new premium brand of phones today, saying that it will run Microsoft’s (NSDQ: MSFT)…

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-- KPN Chief Calls iPhone “Useless”: Ad Scheepbouwer, chief executive of Dutch telecoms company KPN has called the iPhone “pretty useless,” gloating that its sales in Germany have done little…

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Navigation firm Garmin has entered the handset market, launching a gadget remarkably similar to the iPhone. The nüvifone has GPS functions, full browsing, HSDPA, WiFI, Bluetooth and a full touchscreen…

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There have been rumors of Dell entering the mobile handset market for a while now, but speculation is mounting that the company will team up with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to…

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Some analysts have looked at Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone sales figures (3.75 million) and AT&Ts activation figures (bit less than 2 million) and rather than conclude there’s almost a million…

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Ovum has sent some commentary on Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) recent acquisition of Trolltech, and what it means for the mobile industry. The adoption of the Linux-based Qtopia platform across the…

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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will share revenue from Comes with Music service with operators that are cooperative, reports Bloomberg. “In those cases where we cooperate with operators, there will be an…

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I feel a little rant coming on… the New York Times is reporting on Motorola’s (NYSE: MOT) fairly dismal earnings results (our coverage here) and apparently has learnt nothing from…

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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has released its earnings results for the fourth quarter of 2007, as well as for the full year—and it’s all pretty positive. Although its low-end handset business…

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There are some stories going around about the iPhone sales numbers, apparently started by an Inquirer piece based on bad maths. Ars technica has done a good piece analysing various…

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Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has released its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2007, and the full year of 2007. For Q407, Motorola had sales of $9.65 billion (down 18.2…

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USA Today has a detailed piece on Skyhook Wireless, the company behind the technology which finds a location by triangulating WiFi signals which Steve Jobs promoted in his MacWorld keynote.…

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Disney (NYSE: DIS) has unveiled the three handsets which it will offer in its Japanese MVNO, due to launch on March 1st. “Aimed at young working women, Disney Mobile will…

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Dutch company Polymer Vision announced plans to launch its Readius device—a mobile phone with a large screen which folds out to become an e-reader—in the middle of this year. “Readius…

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Kyocera says it will buy Sanyo’s handset division in a deal worth $467 million. After subtracting cash and making other adjustments, the purchase could cost the company around $375 million.…

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Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC, which made its fortune selling Windows Mobile devices, has announced that it has sold 2 million Touch handsets, the touch-screen iPhone-resembling Windows Mobile-running device developed to…

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JR Tokai Express Research has conducted a survey into Japan on the attitude towards the iPhone. Japan is considered a tough market for Apple because it’s already a sophisticated market…

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Samsung has reported its fourth quarter earnings, and as expected its handset business is doing well. Samsung sold 46.3 million handsets in Q4, an increase of 41 percent year-on-year. For…

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One of the criticisms against the iPhone was that it would have a small user base and therefore wouldn’t be worth developing for, but as every mobile content company knows…

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SprintNextel has used CES to reassure people that it is still committed to its Xohm WiMax network by announcing a lot of partnerships...services, devices and ad agencies. Reuters has a…

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The first iPhone Trojan has been found in the wild, notes ZDNet UK. It does some damage when users try to uninstall it, but the repairs are pretty simple: “Affected…

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Intel (NSDQ: INTC) is continuing its push to get ultra-mobile personal computers to a decent sales volume, planning to ship processors and associated chipsets that are smaller and use less…

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-- PSP Mobile: Sony (NYSE: SNE) Computer Entertainment announced today that it had partnered up with Skype to turn the PlayStation Portable (PSP) into a device that could make and…

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-- Motorola has released a couple of handsets, its big hope for regaining marketshare. Motorola’s latest version of its Rokr handset, Rokr E8, takes a page out of Apple’s book.…

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To a large extent 2007 has been dominated by the moves of big web brands into mobile. In fact, if I was under pressure to point to the strongest effect…

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