Nokia Lumia 820 owners will be able to create their own cases for the handset. Nokia today announced that it’s now releasing 3D templates, case specs, and recommended material guidance to help Lumia 820 owners produce their own shell to replace the removable case on the back of the handset. Nokia has offered several cases …

Research In Motion will hold its apparently final BlackBerry 10 “Portathon” this weekend. Running from 9 a.m. PT today to 8:59 p.m. PT tomorrow, the event will allow developers to port their applications available on other mobile platforms to BlackBerry 10. Each approved app will net the developers $100, up to a maximum of 20 applications. To sweeten the pot …

U.K. carrier O2 is making a push for smartphone companies to stop bundling chargers in the box. Earlier this week, O2 released a study that found that 82 percent of customers who bought the HTC One X+ over the last three months walked out of the store without buying a charger, despite the fact that a charger didn’t come in …

Nokia today announced that it was cutting over 1,100 IT jobs from its workforce. The company says that it will lay off 300 employees currently working in an IT function. Nokia will also transfer up to 820 employees to IT services firms, HCL Technologies and Tata Consultancy Services. Nokia announced in June that it would make broad cuts — about …

Research In Motion’s BlackBerry 10 application marketplace will have thousands of more programs, thanks to two events the company ran over the weekend. The events saw RIM net 15,000 app submissions for BlackBerry 10 within a period of 37.5 hours, according to Alec Saunders, vice president of developer relations. The events were called Portathons, with one focusing on the BlackBerry …

Nokia is so excited about its fourth-quarter performance that today it announced preliminary financial information to let shareholders know how well it performed. During the fourth quarter, Nokia’s Devices & Services operation not only exceeded expectations, but delivered “underlying profitability.” The struggling company said that the division’s mobile phones unit delivered better-than-expected results, with 86.3 million total unit sales. Nokia’s …

Samsung is already responding to Apple’s seeming desire to reduce its reliance on its chief competitor for the production of mobile processors. Stephen Woo, president of Samsung’s Systems LSI division, which is charged with producing mobile processors, told Reuters in an interview published yesterday that his company is looking to “diversify our customer base.” To do so, he said, Samsung …

A Nokia facility in Chennai, India, was raided earlier today by country tax authorities. According to Reuters, which was first to report on the incident, Nokia confirmed to the news service that a raid was conducted on an office in the southern India city and that the company is cooperating with the probe, but declined to provide further details. An …

HTC will go aggressive in 2013. Speaking to The Wall Street Journal in an interview published today, HTC CEO Peter Chou said that he believes the “worst for HTC has probably passed.” But how did the “worst” even come about? Chou believes it can be directly attributed to marketing. “Our competitors were too strong and very resourceful, pouring in lots …

Huawei’s Ascend P1 smartphone has finally landed in the U.S. The device, which made its debut at the Consumer Electronics Show last year and cleared regulatory hurdles all the way back in May, is available starting today on Amazon for $449. At that price, consumers will get it unlocked and be able to run it on AT&T or T-Mobile networks. …