Nvidia’s mobile future might have been leaked yesterday on a Chinese forum site. A user going by the name “Xenomorph” yesterday republished an image shared on China’s Twitter equivalent Weibo, detailing what could be the mobile processor that Nvidia launches to replace the Tegra 3. And for now, it’s being called “Wayne.” According to the …

China is now the world’s largest Android market, market researcher Informa said today. Informa estimates that about 786 million smartphones will be sold worldwide by the end of the year, up 45 percent compared with 2011. Total Android-based smartphone sales this year will hit 461 million units. One-third of all of the Android devices sold in 2012 were sold in …

After rumors suggested a deal was near, Sprint announced today it has signed an agreement to acquire the shares of Clearwire that it does not already own. According to Sprint, the companies have agreed to a per-share price of $2.97 on the approximately 50 percent stake in Clearwire it does not currently own. The total price will hit $2.2 billion, …

HTC decided against launching a Windows Phone 8 handset it had planned because of Microsoft’s restrictions on display resolution, a new report claims. HTC was ready to get working on a large-screen Windows Phone 8 device, but believed that Microsoft’s limit on screen display resolutions of 1,280×720 and 1,280×768 would have made its handset look less appealing compared with Android …

Research In Motion has officially announced a BlackBerry 10 event for January 30. The company today sent out invitations to select media outlets, inviting them to Pier 36 in New York City that day for the global unveiling of BlackBerry 10: “You can see it first.” RIM didn’t provide any details on the event, but its tagline is, “Re-designed. Re-engineered. …

Japan-based Softbank is limiting how much Sprint can pay to acquire Clearwire, a new report claims. Sprint Nextel yesterday confirmed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it’s willing to pay $2.90 a share to buyout the remaining shares in Clearwire. The total cost would be $2.1 billion. Some Clearwire shareholders, however, are saying that Sprint should up its …

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt believes that Android’s war with iOS is just about over — and that his team won. Speaking to Bloomberg in an interview published this morning, Schmidt said Android’s ongoing market-share battle with Apple’s iOS “is of the scale of 20 years ago — Microsoft versus Apple.” He went on to say that in his opinion, “we’re …

Square has lined up its first luxury-brand partner, a new report claims. Square and the Burberry clothing chain are testing out a deal to see how the payment processing might work in its stores, The Next Web reported today, citing people who claim to have knowledge of the deal. The announcement could be made soon. Burberry CTO John Douglas already …

Research In Motion has been hit with a new lawsuit from WiLAN. WiLAN, which derives its revenue from licensing patents to vendors, says that it filed the patent infringement claim against RIM in the Southern District of Florida. The company says that RIM is violating Patent No. 6,260,168 related to Bluetooth technologies. WiLAN has a long history of initiating litigation …

Samsung last week unveiled the first group of new features coming to its Galaxy S3. Now, it has unveiled the second group. The company earlier today updated its blog with more new features coming to the Galaxy S3 through its Premium Suite upgrade. The handset’s camera features are getting a lot of attention in the new update. The Premium Suite …