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The following is a list of the five best mobile phones that we give a rating of 5 stars, including the Samsung Tocco Lite, Samsung Jet, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Samsung Genio Touch and Apple iPhone 3G S.
Samsung Tocco Lite. Available in black or pink, the Samsung Tocco Lite is seen as a response to the [...]

The EU is encouraging its members to occupy the same airwaves for mobile broadband In an attempt to reach its 2013 target of 100% broadband coverage.
As members change from the traditional analogue to the new digital broadcasting method, the spectrum will be made available.
The change will make it much simpler to use devices “across borders” [...]

Finland’s mobile phone giant Nokia is planning to sue Apple for their failure to pass on royalties from their sales of the immensely popular iPhone.
Apple are said to have infringed upon Nokia’s mobile phone technology patents when developing the iPhone.
How much Nokia will be seeking has not yet been confirmed, but expert analyst Gene Munster [...]

After releasing their third-quarter (Q3) results, Sony Ericsson’s sales are down to €1.619 billion, a massive drop of 42%.
Handset shipments and revenues are also struggling at Sony Ericsson. Their Q3 results show that just 14.1 million units were shipped, a 2% shortfall on Q2 results and a 45% slump in comparison to the same quarter [...]

T-Mobile has had to withdraw the Sidekick in America, after being made aware that customers could lose personal data through its server.
The designer of Sidekick’s software, Danger (a subsidiary of Microsoft), confirmed the fault, with the mobile phone industry condemning the issue as one of the biggest failings in recent years.
Microsoft are also coming out [...]

France is going mad over the whole iPhone liberation that has taken place over the last couple of weeks.  Apple is notorious for bringing out its iPhone in many countries around the world but only allowing one network to release the phone, providing somewhat of an interesting monopoly.  However, France has recently abolished the monopoly [...]

Social networking sites, such as favourites Facebook and MySpace, are set to jump on the greedy-train as news has surfaced that the sites are planning to charge good money to their users to partake in activities that they are currently taking for granted, such as uploading videos.
Director of research for technology and telecommunications for Deloitte, [...]

In an attempt to keep the wolf from the door, Palm has pulled out all the stops and opened up a store, which will allow its users to download anything from the 5,000 applications available for the Palm OS and Windows Mobile handsets.
Sounds a bit like Apple’s AppStore to you?  Well it does to me [...]

The popular micro-blogging system Twitter has stopped its text message support in the UK due to excessive costs, leaving British users without a full service.

The Site, which allows users to send messages to individuals or friends over the web, text or instant messaging, will still continue to allow people to send messages to Twitter [...]

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According to The Wall Street Journal, Google?s Android platform is being pushed back to late 2008 or early 2009. Google has downplayed the suggestion.
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If the delay proves true it could cause problems for carriers like Sprint ? which according to the Journal, may not be able to release its Android-powered phone at all this year. [...]