You should get the chance to own a white HTC Desire by Christmas, thanks to the Carphone Warehouse. T3 got its hands on official pictures of the phone, which could possibly be released ahead of the still-delayed white iPhone 4. The white Desires will have Super LED displays, instead of AMOLED screens, which have been …

Android and Symbian handset sales will be neck and neck by 2014, while Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 will have made very little impact, says Gartner. The analyst has consulted its astrology charts and believes Android and Symbian phones will dominate the worldwide mobile OS market, but unlike research by IDC released last week, Gartner predicts Google’s software will almost be …

Microsoft has performed a rather bad taste stunt to promote the upcoming launch of Windows Phone 7, staging a frankly pathetic funeral parade for BlackBerry and the iPhone, our sister site ZDNet.com reports. Celebrating Windows Phone 7’s release to manufacturing, the procession in Redmond came complete with hearses and cloaked Microsoft pallbearers, with caskets made up to look like the …

A prototype of what could be the first Asus smart phone on the market to run Windows Phone 7 has been captured in a video. The unnamed handset was filmed at the Gnomedex 10 event in Seattle in August. The Lockergnome.com video lasts around 12 minutes, with a Microsoft employee explaining some of the main features of the mobile operating system. The phone has …

Google has added a pedestrian sat-nav feature to the mobile version of Google Maps on Android, making it easier for people with no sense of direction to find their way around. It’s also made improvements to Street View, making the mobile version more similar to that on computers. Google Maps for mobile has been updated to version 4.5 for anybody with Android …

InputDynamics is developing software that could equip button-only ‘dumb phones‘ with some of the capabilities of touchscreen devices. The Cambridge-based firm says its TouchDevice software can convert a tap, swipe or fingernail scratch on a phone’s screen or casing into actions such as selecting an icon, scrolling through a menu and zooming. The distinct sounds produced by a tap, swipe or scratch …

Tesco has launched a free Groceries app that allows you to do your weekly shop on your iPhone. Once you’ve registered at the Tesco website and downloaded the app from the iTunes store, it’ll allow you to find products, create a shopping basket, check out and arrange a delivery. If you’ve already made an order online on a computer, you can change …

Apple has made some big changes to its App Store policies, relaxing restrictions on the tools developers can use to create iOS apps, and revealing guidelines about why apps are rejected. In a statement, Apple said it had relaxed its development-tool restrictions as a result of developer feedback. It added that any apps developed in light of the new rules still shouldn’t …

A new Samsung handset that runs Windows Phone 7, the GT-i8700, has been leaked. Gizmodo was sent photos of the GT-i8700 that clearly show it will run Windows Phone 7, offer around 8GB of storage, and pack a camera with an LED flash. It’s a touchscreen device with sharp edges and a shiny finish on its front. Last month, Pocketnow posted pictures of a Windows Phone 7 …

Qualcomm and ARM are planning to release powerful processors that may run a new generation of smart phones.  Qualcomm expects to release the 1.2GHz, dual-core 8260 chip in the first half of 2011. A 1.5GHz, dual-core 8672 CPU is expected to emerge in July 2011. Qualcomm is the manufacturer of the 1GHz Snapdragon chip that runs Android devices like the HTC …