Nokia to launch touch-screen phone in late '08 (AFP)   11 Feb 2008 13:22 GMT

AFP - Finnish manufacturer Nokia, the world's biggest maker of mobile phones, said Monday it would release a touch-screen handset for the first time in the second half of this year.

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EU's Reding wants "credible" roaming cuts (Reuters)   11 Feb 2008 12:35 GMT

Reuters - Mobile phone operators must act before July 1 to avoid the European Union imposing lower prices for texting or surfing the Web via mobile phones when abroad, the bloc's top telecoms regulator said on Monday.

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Sony Ericsson to make Windows Mobile phone   11 Feb 2008 12:05 GMT
Sony Ericsson will begin selling its first phone using Windows Mobile software this year, Microsoft was due to announce on Sunday, just ahead of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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Sony Ericsson to make Windows Mobile phone (InfoWorld)   11 Feb 2008 12:05 GMT
InfoWorld - Sony Ericsson will begin selling its first phone using Windows Mobile software this year, Microsoft was due to announce on Sunday, just ahead of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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Companies abandon LiPS for LiMo   11 Feb 2008 11:51 GMT
Several more members of the mobile Linux Phone Standards Forum (LiPS) are switching allegiance to the LiMo Foundation, this time including board and executive committee members, indicating that LiPS is losing steam.
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World's mobile phone industry gathers in Barcelona (AFP)   11 Feb 2008 11:24 GMT

AFP - The most established names in telecoms, Internet and media gathered in Barcelona Monday for the Mobile World Congress, one of the world's biggest events for the mobile phone industry.

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Google's Android software debuts in Barcelona (AFP)   11 Feb 2008 11:20 GMT

AFP - The first mobile phone fitted with Google's Android software platform has made its debut in Barcelona at one of the world's biggest telecom trade shows, Google said Monday.

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Nokia unveils 4 phones, opens media-sharing site (Reuters)   11 Feb 2008 09:23 GMT
Reuters - Nokia, the world's largest cellphone maker, unveiled on Monday four new multimedia phone models, including successors to its top N95 and N73 models.
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Samsung hopes to have Google phone early 2009 (Reuters)   11 Feb 2008 08:10 GMT

Reuters - Korea's Samsung Electronics hopes to have a phone based on Google's Android mobile phone software platform by early next year, it said at the Mobile World Congress on Monday.

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TI to demonstrate prototype Google Android phone (Reuters)   11 Feb 2008 08:08 GMT
Reuters - Texas Instruments Inc said on Monday it would demonstrate a prototype cell phone based on Android, the highly anticipated mobile phone operating system being built by Web search leader Google Inc.
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