While most phone makers are increasing their production of smartphones, don't expect prices to drop any time soon.

Nokia's latest Internet tablet or Mobile Internet Device arrives almost two years after its previous version, the N810, and an additional failed model that came inbetween, the N810 WiMax edition.

THE JAPANESE media are claiming that NEC, Hitachi and Casio are in talks to merge their mobile phone operations.

Pictures of unboxing LG's Watchphone. This video of our walk-through and hands-on demo of this Dick Tracy-inspired device in all its expensive glory.

The new processor amazingly powerful (almost twice as fast as the iPhone 3GS unit), but it is extremely energy efficient too. The Hummingbird can run at a high speed even at the minimum supply voltage of 1.0V, which makes it really suitable for use in mobile devices.

The HTC Hero has been an object of lust for some time now for gadget enthusiasts. Even from the earliest days of leaked hardware shots and blurry demo videos of its UI, smartphone fans seemed to agree that the company had finally achieved what has been missing in the world of Android.

Concept phones and new technologies provide a glimpse of the phones we'll see in the future.

The latest iTunes update, version 8.2.1, may offer up a few bug fixes, but its real purpose is to prevent the Palm Pre from syncing with iTunes. The move isn't a surprise. Last month, Apple warned that future versions of iTunes probably wouldn't support syncing with non-Apple media players.

You won't find many fanboys for these consoles, which unite terrible graphics with lousy games and underpowered hardware. Oh yeah--and some were obscenely overpriced, too!

The Toshiba TG01 on the Orange network in the UK today. It's based on Qualcomm's 1GHz Snapdragon, the fastest processor in a mobile phone to date.