Nokia said today that it would launch a variant of its flagship smartphone, the Lumia 920, specifically for China Mobile. The Lumia 920T will be the first Windows Phone to run on China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA network. The phone is expected to hit the market by the end of the year and sell for 4,599 yuan …

There might be hundreds of thousands of apps in your favorite mobile marketplace, but chances are, few developers there are actually making serious cash. During the first 20 days of November, just 25 developers, including Rovio, Zynga, Electronic Arts, and Disney, generated half of all mobile app revenue earned, research firm Canalys discovered in a study announced yesterday. The companies …

Sony’s gathering twigs and bits of fluff for its nest — it’s about to lay a smart phone-shaped egg, due to hatch into a cheap Android phone just in time for spring. The Xperia E is a relatively basic smart phone, sporting a 3.5-inch display with a 320×480-pixel resolution, plus a 3.2-megapixel camera around the back, while a 1GHz processor …

The Nexus 4 is sold out again, less than 24 hours after Google managed to find more stock for its much-anticipated smart phone. If you didn’t manage to snap up the £239 bargain blower last night, then unfortunately you’re out of luck again. At the time of writing you can still throw down cash for the 16GB model, but the …

AT&T is hoping for a happy holiday when it comes to smartphone sales. The wireless carrier is selling smartphones at a record pace — 6.4 million already in the first two months of the quarter, according to Ralph de la Vega, CEO of AT&T’s mobility arm. De la Vega, speaking at an investor conference today, said he now expects to …

The cost of insuring your T-Mobile handset could rise in the new year, according to what could be a leaked internal document. If the image proves true, monthly premium rates will remain untouched when the new plans take effect. Deductibles, however, are largely set to rise. Save for the carrier’s low-end devices, the cost to replace your phone will go …

Qualcomm has added two new chipsets to its popular Snapdragon S4 processor family. Dubbed the MSM8226 and MSM8626, the chipsets offer quad-core processing and use the 28nm technology node. The chipsets include the Adreno 305 graphics processing unit, allowing for 1080p video capture and playback and up to a 13-megapixel camera. According to Qualcomm, the chipsets will allow for long …

Nokia today announced its third Windows Phone 8 handset, filling out its current range with a budget option aimed at the youth market. Nokia’s Lumia 620 and its “dual-shot” covers. (Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET) The Lumia 620 will go on sale early next year for US$249. This figure will likely be higher in Australian stores, but it should still be one …

Scott Stein/CNET iTunes 11 is finally here. I hear that it’s a step in the right direction, correcting many of the missteps and redundancies that have crept into the bloated software over the years. But I can’t really give you a full opinion on iTunes 11 because I really haven’t spent that much time with it on a personal level. …

Fancy a bargain-basement BlackBerry? The BlackBerry Curve 9320 has dropped in price to less than a hundred quid, as sales fall off a cliff. The 9320 can be yours for just £99 from Phones4U. That’s about £50 less than equivalent Android phones — cheap as chips considering the 9320 only debuted six months ago. Contract deals are incredibly affordable too, …