South Korean electronics giant, Samsung Electronics has released the new Galaxy Ace Plus smartphone in its Galaxy Ace Plus series of smartphones.

The Galaxy Ace Plus features a 3.65-inch HVGA display with a 480 x 320 pixel resolution. It comes with a 5 megapixel camera with an LED flash and for connectivity features; it offers Wi-Fi 802.11 connectivity, Bluetooth 3.0, HSDPA 7.2 Mbps. The users will be able to access the company's range of apps and other services on the device.

According to a new study, China has emerged as the largest market for smartphone devices in the world by overtaking the United Sates in the third quarter.

The study conducted by research firm Strategy Analytics showed that the shipments of smartphones to operators and retailers in China grew 58% to 24 million units in the third quarter, compared to 23 million units delivered to the U. S. market, recording a fall of 7% from the previous quarter.

Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 10 - MobME Wireless, Innoz Technologies and Flytxt, all headquartered at the Technopark campus here, feature in the Nasscom's list of 50 top emerging IT companies in the country this calendar year.

MobME Wireless and Flytxt have been chosen in the Emerge Innovation category and Innoz Technologies in the Emerge Start-ups category, said a Nasscom release issued here Monday.

Singapore, Oct 10 - A Singapore start-up firm has devised an innovative application to allow phone users have access to their positioning information within buildings, where the traditional global positioning system has often proved inaccurate.

The firm YFind Positioning System feels that the application can help turn Singapore into the world's first location-intelligent city, daily Business Times reported on Monday.

Accordign to some reports, Nokia may not launch its latest Meego powered smartphone, the N9 in the UK market.

the UK is not among the list of countries that Nokia has asked its users to check for availability. Surprisingly, Italy, Spain, Germany and France are also not mentioned in the list.

“The N9 will begin shipping in 2011. We will share more information about the specific markets and the pricing closer to product availability,” said Nokia's communications manager, Mark Hindle.

South Korean electronics giant, Samsung has launched a new UK only 3D ad campaign to promote its Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone on rival Apple’s iPad tablet computer.

Samsung’ ad agency, Starcom claimed that it will be the first 3D ad campaign on iPads. The ads use a combination of lighting, shading, and motion effects to show the smartphoen from different angles.

The ads are being aired by a mobile ad network that reaches many of Apple’s mobile devices. Meanwhile, Apple has already sued Samsung claiming its line of Galaxy S devices is a copy of iPhone.

Leading handset maker, Nokia might not offer its N9 smartphone in the UK, when the Meego powered device is launched later in the year.

According to a new report, the UK is not among the list of countries that Nokia has asked its users to check for availability. Surprisingly, Italy, Spain, Germany and France are also not mentioned in the list.

“The N9 will begin shipping in 2011. We will share more information about the specific markets and the pricing closer to product availability,” said Nokia's communications manager, Mark Hindle.

LG introduced its new Optimus series of smartphone in the world market, sweeping out the popularity of Optimus 2X. The latest model of Optimus constituted of a 3D screen which was being introduced for the very first time in any mobile.

Mobile handsets manufacturer, HTC Corp. has launched its smartphone, HTC Sensation in Indian market. Sensation has become the third dual-core smartphone to be launched in India after Samsung Galaxy S II and LG Optimus
2X.

London, May 5 : It's a phone, a laptop, a PC and recognises its owner by his fingerprint. Motorola's ATRIX is being marketed as the world's most powerful smartphone packed full of tech wizardry "any aspiring spy can be proud of".

The ATRIX smartphone can be plugged into a range of docks that convert it into a laptop, personal computer, media centre, or a sat-nav, the Daily Mail reports.

It is the first smartphone to operate with fingerprint recognition to ensure it can only be activated by the genuine owner.

Sony Ericsson has decided to launch Xperia Play on March 31st in UK. It will be released in UK with massive marketing campaign.

This is the most awaited device since 2006 which will hit the UK market by March end. Xperia Play popularly known as PlayStation Phone is one of its own kind.

Sony Ericsson is claiming that the device will be made available from all retailers on all networks in UK through biggest ever marketing campaign.

Mobile world has not left any technology unturned for launching its innovative products. Mobile devices are equipped with touch touchscreen and virtual keypads. Following the same trend Nokia has come up with his new ‘Touch and Type’ design with the stylish Nokia X3-02 and C3-01 handsets for Indian consumers at Rs. 8,839 and Rs. 9,389, respectively.

According to a recent survey, mobile prices in global markets are likely to fall by nearly 70% by 2015. As per the estimate, with increasing competition among manufacturers, in 2015, you can get any recent mobile phone for less than $100.

According to a study conducted by Knowledge Process Outsourcing firm Evalueserve "With the increasing number of subscribers coming from 'lower-middle income (LMI)' developing economies, the average size of the consumer wallet is expected to shrink."

As per the study, as the demand from this end of market is increasing, we can expect companies to target five years from now.

Canada based Research In Motion (RIM) has released a beta version of Twitter for BlackBerry 1.1. This contains several new features like geotagging, better integration with social feeds. Other features that are included are easy-operation and new gesture support. Announced on Feb. 22, Twitter for BlackBerry also features geotagging.

Long wait for Nexus One is going to be ended soon. On Wednesday morning, Google has started of pushing out the new version of Android that has currently been codenamed Gingerbread, to Nexus One devices.

Most probably, the rollout will take some days. However, one must be anticipating an Over The Air update quite soon enough.

HTC HD3 supposedly is claimed to be the latest Android tablet on the cards.

It is hinted that HTC might soon be releasing a new set of brand new phones at an event to be released on September 15, at London.

Of the new models which supposedly will be offered is the HTC HD3. It is tainted to be the heir to the HD2, also claimed to be a major release under the brand name of Windows Mobile.

With Micromax starting the fad of dual Sim phones in India, almost every handset manufacturing player these days is rolling out cell phones with the same feature. And the latest to join the bandwagon is LePhone Mobiles that today unveiled its triple Sim phone in the country. The all new A10 has three Sim card slots that have an option of 2 GSM and 1 CDMA in it.

Moreover the industry estimates also indicate that there has been a steady increase in the growth of dual Sim phones in the country in the last quarter.

The telecom arm of Videocon Industries is looking out for possible buyers to sell off its 26% stake.

Videocon Telecommunications has currently 1.9 million subscribers and holds a market share of 0.31%. The company is eyeing a total valuations of Rs. 15000 crore.

In the past also, the company had initial rounds of discussion with South Korean company SK Telecom, UAE’s Etisalat and Turkey’s Turkcell.

Earlier this week, Spice had launched its Android based handset-The Spice Mi-300 in association with Qualcom. Thus with Android becoming the latest hot favorite platform  of handset manufacturing companies across the globe, more and more companies are rolling out handsets based on it.

And the latest one to yet again join this league is Samsung as the company had recently announced the launch of its Galaxy S, Beam and the mid-range Galaxy 3 and 5. But the company is back again with its latest offering- Galaxy U which is a new Android-based device.

In the era of launching different themed phones, spice is the first Indian handset maker to launch sport themed phone at very low prices.

Earlier there have been gaming phones, messaging phones, camera phones and many other phones but nobody have thought of introducing sport phone. However, Spice has brought a new range of handsets based on sports applications. The price tagged with the handset is Rs 4499.

Spice has named the phone as M-6, the first sport phone manufactured b an Indian company. As it is a sport phone it is equipped with lots of sporty contents.