Samsung sold more than one million Galaxy S Android smartphones in the U.S., the company announced. In a month and a half, the combined sales of T-Mobile Vibrant and AT&T Captivate topped one million, in a boon for Google Android's fight for supremacy against Apple's iPhone.

Research In Motion will give India access to secure BlackBerry data beginning September 1, a government source said on Monday, leading New Delhi to put off a decision on whether to shut down the smartphone.

The number of women using the web on mobile phones has risen by 575 percent over the last two years, according to the latest State of the Mobile Web Report published by Opera today. Opera polled 300,000 Opera Mini users from 15 countries to discover how many people were using the mobile web.

The HTC Merge has been spotted in Global Certification Forum filings and on the US network Verizon's database, and is rumoured to be a much more powerful handset.

Photographs of Nokia's up-coming N9 smartphone have leaked out - and it looks like the Finnish mobile giant is taking its design cues from Apple's MacBook Pro range these days.

Melissa Thompson from Salford, Greater Manchester, is now the fastest texter in the world. The 28 years old Brit wrote “the razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human”, in nothing less than 25.94 seconds.

SFGate thinks that RIM should give up on their operating system, and put all their chips on Android going forward. There are some compelling reasons given for such a drastic move, but doing this would almost certainly result in disaster.

More than 60 Xbox Live titles for Windows Phone 7 have now been officially unveiled, and more titles will be released continuously.

A industry-wide race to bottom-line App Store selling prices has led to what is a market crash. That's according to Heiko Hubertz, the sometimes-outspoken CEO of online game firm Bigpoint.

Microsoft Corp. is bringing its video-game expertise to the forthcoming Windows Phone 7 line, an attempt to capitalize on the success of the Xbox 360 as the software maker tries to compete with Apple Inc.'s iPhone.

India has asked Tata Teleservices to ensure monitoring capability for BlackBerry services by August 31, the company said on Tuesday.

Sony's PSP Go hardware iteration may not have won many fans over, but Sony's Ericsson division is reportedly creating a mobile phone that will utilise many of the platform's strengths to create a new mobile gaming device based on the upcoming iteration of the Google Android.

New reports from market analysis firms Gartner and IDC confirm what most industry watchers already knew: the second quarter of 2010 was a boom time for smartphone sales, with both firms agreeing worldwide smartphone sales increased 50 percent compared to the second quarter of 2009.

Vodafone has backed down in its bid to foist the network's own software on HTC Desire owners. Vodafone angered many HTC Desire owners last week, when it sent out an over-the-air update that installed a set of irremovable Vodafone 360 apps on customers' devices.

It was only a matter of time before smartphones started to get irritating, and we mean more irritating than the novelty alarm which wakes you up before the morning slog to work. TV ad irritating, Go Compare irritating, Compare the Meerkat irritating.

There is a quiet war going on over at the Vodafone customer forums at the moment. A lot of very angry customers are making themselves heard – because within the last week, many of them claim their Androids were irreparably damaged by Vodafone itself.

An update bringing Google Android 2.2 to the HTC Desire could reach owners on the Orange network within the next four weeks.

Sharp Corp plans to take on Apple's iPhone by the end of the year, with the international launch of a smartphone featuring a 3D panel that can be viewed without special glasses, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

It's easy to jailbreak your iPhone to run non-Apple approved applications. Here are 5 reasons why you might want to and you might want to think twice.

Sales of Android-based smartphones are surging, tearing chunks of market share out of Apple, RIM, and Windows Mobile's hides.