Google may not see eye to eye with the Chinese government these days, but the company still has high hopes for its Android smartphones among Chinese users. The search giant’s chief financial officer, Patrick Pichette, spoke during a Webcast about the prospects for Android in China in the midst of heated negotiations about the future …

Hold on to your YouTube — Adobe has confirmed that Flash Player 10.1 will come to the mobile version of Internet Explorer that’s on Windows Phone 7 Series. It won’t be available on the first WinPhev phones, but Adobe’s Mike Chambers wrote on his blog that Adobe and Microsoft are busy as beavers making it happen. “I don’t have an …

Now playing: Watch this: LG Accolade VX5600 1:37 In their long history together, LG and Verizon Wireless have given us more than their share of quality handsets. From high-end handsets like the LG Chocolate Touch to simple models like the VX5400, we’ve been mostly pleased with what we’ve seen. The new LG Accolade VX5600 is closer to the latter, but …

Windows Phone 7 Series is courting developers this week at the Mix10 conference in Las Vegas, giving us a glimpse of the applications we can expect to see on our WinPhev phones at the end of the year. The spotlight was on apps from Associated Press (pictured above), which showed a ‘panoramic’ user experience — basically, multiple home screens that …

The Office for National Statistics has made its latest update to Britain’s shopping basket of goods and services — its hypothetical collection of goods used to measure UK inflation. The addition of liquid soap, cereal bars and garlic bread isn’t terribly interesting, but the changing face of Britain’s technological affair certainly is. Kindly welcome Blu-ray players into the average consumer’s …

AT&T sprang into action on Monday and introduced a quartet of new Quick Messaging phones as well as a set of services designed to bring smartphone-like experiences to mass-market phones. These services will first debut on the Samsung Strive (see below) and include three tools: AT&T Address Book, AT&T Mobile Share, and next-generation messaging. The latter simply brings a reply-all …

Slacker better light a fire under its keister if it wants to be the first streaming-music service to offer offline song caching for the iPhone and iPod Touch. In the midst of all the SXSW hoopla, Rhapsody has announced its intentions to offer caching as part of the next update to its own iPhone app. For those not in the …

Dubbed as a handset for blue- and white-collar workers, Sprint took the wraps off its latest Nextel Direct Connect device, the Motorola i890. The i890 offers the standard Direct Connect push-to-talk features as well as Group Connect, Direct Talk, Direct Send, and Next Mail. In addition, you get a 2-megapixel camera with fixed focus, 4x digital zoom, and video-recording capabilities. …

Are you one of the very, very few people who’ve spent buckets of money in the Windows Marketplace app store? If so, take a deep breath and try to remain calm — Microsoft has announced that apps for Windows Mobile won’t run on its upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series operating system. That means you won’t be able to bring your apps over …

HTC Incredible pocketnow.com Based on recent leaks, a pair of HTC handsets, the Supersonic and Incredible, appear all but ready to ship. The Google Android smartphones have appeared in the wild and they look like final products. A handful of pictures of the Incredible trickled out early last week from a Twitter user known as DevDroid. As you can see …