HP will be dropping Windows 7 for WebOS in its future phones. However, HP will stick with the Vole for its upcoming Slate tablet.

The SLCD technology is better performing than earlier LCD panels such as the advanced technology AMLCD adopted by the Iphone 4, with around five times better power management.

Acer has announced an Android-based entertainment smartphone that's fully integrated with social-notworking features.

Over a year has passed since then, and Palm has brought out successors to that phone and operating system. The company has since changed owners and is a part of HP now, which has big plans for WebOS and development of the brand along with its handsets.

It's been a long road, hasn't it? Well, in some respects, it hasn't -- in fact, it's only been about two years since development of Windows Phone 7 as we know it today kicked off.

To be fair to Apple, it is not used to handling bad press. Normally the tame US press will print whatever Steve Jobs tells them, but this time even the New York Times had to admit that the Iphone 4 is broken.

The emergency press conference had everyone wondering how Jobs would explain away a fundamental design fault that has been demonstrated hundreds of times.

IBM has made a statement that it sees Android devices as suitable business tools with a release of its flagship enterprise collaboration software for smartphones running Google's mobile OS.

Figures that are being bandied about by Google show that almost 50 per cent of Android users are stuck with smartphones that are running old versions of the operating system.

In a lot of ways, Apple's iPhone 4 announcement was short on surprises. We've been playing with the new iPhone OS 4 (now dubbed iOS 4) for a while, and photos of the hardware had been widely disseminated, a rarity for an unreleased Apple product.