Chinese handset maker Huawei is in talks to bring its newly announced IDEOS smartphone to T-Mobile, according to the Wall Street Journal. The paper says Huawei has been negotiating with each of the four major carriers to crack the U.S. smartphone market. The T-Mobile deal could reportedly be finalized in the next four to six …

A bevy of Android devices will ultimately mean that Google’s mobile operating system will control largely half of the smartphone market, according to a Piper Jaffray report. Apple’s iOS will probably top out with market share of 20 percent to 30 percent in the long run. The big picture? Android and Apple will squeeze rivals such as Nokia and Research …

We heard the rumor on Friday that BlackBerry-maker RIM snapped up Data Viz, makers of the popular productivity app Documents To Go, but it wasn’t until Tuesday that RIM confirmed the purchase to CNET with a statement: RIM has acquired some of the assets of DataViz and hired the majority of its employees to focus on supporting the BlackBerry platform. …

ViewSonic has sprung another surprise by launching a new 10-inch dual-boot tablet, following this week’s 7-inch £350 tablet reveal. The ViewPad 100 can dual boot into either Windows 7 Home Premium or Android 1.6. It will cost £550 and is out in October. The capacitive touch screen has a resolution of 1024 x 600, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and a sensor that orientates …

Though AT&T didn’t officially announce it, the carrier put the LG Encore for sale on its Web site on Sunday, September 5. The touch-screen phone uses LG’s proprietary operating system. The Encore is a quad-band GSM/EDGE phone with dual-band 850/1,900Mhz 3.6Mbps HSDPA 3G, A-GPS, an accelerometer, a 3.5mm headset jack, a microSD card slot that takes up to 16GB cards, …

Two swarthy music phones with Greek names and a social-networking twist are set to woo neglected British housewives: the Sony Ericsson Spiro and Zylo. Shirley Valentine types will no longer need to hold conversations with the wall, as both handsets offer Facebook and Twitter apps. Their music players can also operate in the background, providing a soundtrack for your social-networking shenanigans. …

While there is little doubt Nokia will showcase several new smartphones at next week’s Nokia World expo, tipsters are backing an unannounced slider dubbed the E7 to take centre stage for the Finnish phone maker. Could this be Nokia’s next flagship smartphone? (Credit: Negri.com) Reuters is reporting that the E7 will be named Nokia’s flagship model for the end of …

Orange customers will be able to roam onto T-Mobile’s network, and vice versa, from 5 October. According to Reuters, Orange and T-Mobile users will be able to switch networks whenever they have a low signal. The system will be tested until early 2011, when switching will become automatic. The network-sharing agreement is the result of a link-up between Orange and …

O2 is the latest operator to make a hash of upgrading handsets to Android 2.2. A Froyo update for the HTC Desire went live this morning and was then promptly suspended, due to reported problems with installing it. On the O2 forums, one user, Potzy, said that his O2-branded HTC Desire had prompted him to install a system update. But, in his next entry, he …

A leaked screenshot suggests that you’ll be able to download unlimited music for around £9 a month if you buy a mobile running Windows Phone 7. WMPoweruser.com leaked a screenshot of the Zune desktop software, showing the pricing for a ‘Zune Pass‘ in Britain. The Zune music platform is currently available in the US and Microsoft may launch it here before Christmas, to coincide with the release of the first …

In a hint of what might happen when we see it over here, the BlackBerry Torch‘s US debut has opened with an overwhelming feeling of ‘meh’. Early indications are the best you could say about sales of RIM’s new device is they were ‘mixed’, with Goldman Sachs calling sales “underwhelming”. The Wall Street Journal quoted analysts who estimated 150,000 Torch …

Music-identification app Shazam has been updated for the iPhone and iPod touch, making it even easier to pin a name on that unknown tune you keep humming. Shazam’s music-recognition technology allows you to use your mobile phone to recognise a song wherever it’s playing. You hold your phone up to the sound source and the recorded clip is run through a database of 8m tracks …

Thanks to a recent FCC listing, we may have a pretty good idea of what Verizon Wireless’s next big Android phone might be. Listed as the HTC PD42100, the slider phone boasts what appears to be a 4-inch screen with a spacious keyboard spread across four rows. A quick glance and one might mistake it for the upcoming G2 from …

Android is coming to your telly. Crave chatted to to manufacturers working on televisions powered by Google mobile operating system at technology trade show IFA this week. As all the big names showed off their Internet-connected tellies, less well-known names are going ‘Droid. The amazingly-named Swedish company People of Lava is the first to develop an Android-powered television, while Vestel …

LCD TVs have evolved significantly in the past five years. They’ve gone from sporting unsophisticated fluorescent-tube backlights to LED arrays with hundreds of different, independently dimmable areas, for improved contrast. So, what’s next? LG reckons its Nano lighting technology is, because it improves light distribution across the screen. The technology will make its debut on the company’s LEX8 TV, which was …