SAN JOSE, Calif.–Today at BlackBerry’s developers conference and press event, Alec Saunders, vice president of …

Huawei has ambitions to build its own mobile operating system as a fail-safe in case Google’s Android or Microsoft’s Windows Phone platforms someday are no longer available to the Chinese telecommunications giant. Huawei told Reuters that it is devoting resources to its own platform, which would lessen its dependence on other companies and provide it with an alternate plan if …

Sony is now offering the unlocked GSM version of its Android-powered Xperia Acro S smartphone, according to a press release issued this afternoon. Priced at $599.99, the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich handset features a number of decent specifications, including a dual-core 1.5GHz processor, a 4.3-inch scratch-resistant HD Reality Display, and a 12.1-megapixel camera. Additional details for the Xperia Acro …