When it comes to touchscreen handsets, the iPhone isn't the only game in town anymore. Take a gander at the latest crop of touch-enabled phones now (or soon to be) in stores, and see which one's right for you.

Google today introduced brand-image ads for mobile phones, in a bid to extend beyond the computer-based Web market into the emerging market for advertising on phones. The company said it designed mobile images to look like standard graphical display ads for desktop computer webpages, but made them smaller to fit on mobile phone screens. Mobile image ads are targeted according to the keywords users type into phones to search for information. The ads are priced on a cost-per-click basis, and must ...

Motorola said today first-quarter loss widened as sales in the company's key handset unit fell 39 percent, extending a two-year slump. Coming as Motorola is in the midst of massive upheaval, Motorola announced plans earlier this spring to split itself into two publicly traded companies to revive its cell phone unit. Greg Brown, Motorola's new CEO, said spinning off its troubled cell phone division "unlocks" the value of the business, which has no strategic value to the rest of the company. Motor...

Today LG announced its latest high-end handset, the KF750 Secret. With its carbon fiber panels, tempered glass touchscreen, and 5 megapixel camera with AF and 120fps video recording capability, the KF750 won't be a secret for long. Read the full story here.

Orange Solo, Orange Venture and Orange Momentum Updated to Offer Businesses of all Sizes More Choice and Flexibility Read the full story here.

A while back I decided it was time to update the look of the website. It's looking a bit dated, and there are a number of new things that we want to do with it that the current design just won't allow for. One of the ideas that we had for the new site was what we are calling the BrowserBar, that new strip across the top of the main section of the home page that let's you quickly see all of the latest phones. In preparation for the new templates for the site, we coded that up and I decided I might as well toss it in now, rather than waiting. So if you are having any trouble with the top of the home page, try doing a refresh/reload of the page (optionally while holding down the shift key). That should fix things up.

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Sony Ericsson has released its Q1 2008 financial results, and reports a measly 2% volume increase over Q1 2007, and a significant decrease over Q4 2007. The manufacturer blames a slowing market and high R&D costs for some of its problems. Read the full story here.

Alltel is the first carrier to offer an update to its HTC Touch that adds support for speedy EV-DO Rev. A data networks. Additionally, the update also fixes some Bluetooth issues and adds support for receiving video messages. Read the full story here.

Everyone's going mobile nowadays and jewellers are not an exception. UK-based Fameo launched what seems as the first British mobile jewellery catalogue to allow anyone with web-enabled mobile phone to browse and search their offers, monitor order status, research information and get customer service — all while on-the-go. In addition, Fameo's mobile website provides users [...]

Here's something for all of you that wanted to launch a mobile website, but just couldn't find a way around it. Note that I'm not talking about way-too-simple WAP websites, but fully fledged mobile websites for users with more powerful handsets. The process is now easier than ever, thanks to Mobilemo. Mobilemo provides a simple and [...]

This just won't stop. We need to dig through other sources in order to get information about new color options for existing handsets, rather to get a press release from a handset maker itself. Anyway, if you like the Sony Ericsson K660, but don't like the existing colors, here's a reason to rejoice. The K660 model [...]

Synovate has conducted a study on behalf of Telenor to show which nation among the three surveyed — Norway, Sweden and Denmark — buys the most expensive and advanced mobile phones. And the winner is… Norway, where people spend an average of NOK 1868; Swede spends an equivalent of NOK 1762 and a Dane NOK [...]

I'm sure I'm not the only one who wants to see how the existing Nokia N95 8GB smartphone stands against the upcoming N96 model. Yeah, the N96 has more storage on board, but also the worse battery. What follows is a series of photos that show how the two devices look standing to each other. [...]

In a recent release, Vodafone announced that by 2020 it will reduce its CO2 emissions by 50% against its 2006/7 baseline of 1.23 million tonnes. In addition, the Big Red mobile operator will be focusing on developing products and services which will help customers limit their own emissions. The idea here is to leverage improvements in [...]

Alltel is bringing Ontela's PhotoCopter service to their customers to allow them to "finally unlock the photos trapped inside their phones." PhotoCopter saves every camera phone picture customers snap to their home computers and favorite web photo albums. PhotoCopter automatically transfers the taken picture to the PC with no extra buttons to push. The PhotoCopter is [...]

The famous manga publisher TOKYOPOP has announced an exclusive agreement with GoComics to bring a host of new manga titles to mobile phones in the coming months. Under the deal, TOKYOPOP will be featured in the newly expanded GoComics mobile comics and manga offering — available through the mobile web or in the GoComics Mobile Manga [...]

Apple has released its fiscal year Q2 2008 financial reports and the results show a decrease in both iPod and iPhone sales versus the prior quarter, with revenue and total profits dropping as well. Read the full story here.

Nokia N95, Nokia Maps and Accessories Included in Special Edition Automobile Read the full story here.