In an attempt to accommodate new emergency alerts – which come in the form of texts, photos and videos from mobile phones -, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski Tuesday called for a “Next-Generation 9-1-1” service.

The world's leader in mobile phone, Nokia has acknowledged the fact that the hopes of N8 taking over the market seems to be shaking.

A few of the users claim that their N8 gets turned off without a note, and doesn't restart or power back at the same time.

Verizon Wireless announced on Thursday that it is now offering the ill-fated Microsoft handsets - Kin One and Kin Two - as features phones, not smartphones; thereby marking the carrier's attempts to push the unwanted phones in the run-up to Christmas.

Featuring under the tag of Droid 2, Motorola Milestone 2 is coming up in UK this week. It is said that the smartphone will be released in form of SIM-free manner from various retailers, and at the same time offered with a subsidy in terms of Vodafone contract.

The chief executive of the mobile business of Dell Inc is quitting the company and the company will shut down its mobile business. It pointed out that the firm is heavily struggling to expand its business beyond its main business of selling computers to firms.

In a recent announcement, Dell said that one of its top mobile executives, Ron Garriques, president of the company's communications solutions group, will leave on January 28, 2011.

The credit-card operation will soon feature in smartphones in US and around. And soon the feature will be coming to smartphones in the U. S., through a national phone payment network called Isis, initiated by AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon.

Virgin Media users soon shall receive their FroYo for Desire update.

Soon after the release of HTC Desire users on other networks were offered with the supply of Frozen Yogurt for their smartphones.

Virgin Media users are being bestowed with the Android 2.2, FroYo, update for their iPhone-challenging Google powered devices.

Facebook Places has been released with BlackBerry for its latest version.

RIM and Facebook seemingly have updated their Facebook application for BlackBerry mobiles. Version 1.9.0.20 comes handy on the BlackBerry App World and can be installed on all BlackBerry handsets offering software of version 4.5 or higher.

The second half of 2010 virtually witnessed the transformation of Korean biggie Samsung from a powerhouse in mass market handsets to a successful maker of open OS smartphones – thanks largely to the stupendous success of the company’s Android-based Galaxy S handsets as well as the Wave, which runs on its own bada OS.