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Apple Inc is widely expected to introduce its latest iPhone on Monday, as the company hopes to expand its lead in the increasingly competitive smartphone market.

London, June 4 (ANI): A mobile phone with a ringtone as loud as a pneumatic drill or speeding train is proving a hit among the elderly.

London, May 17 (ANI): Almost a month after an iPhone 4G prototype was found in a US bar, reports of discovering a second next-generation prototype of the gadget in Vietnam are making rounds.he secret gadget, identified by technology experts as being similar to a version found recently in a Silicon Valley bar, was given to a mobile phone accessory dealer in Ho Chi Minh City.

The growth of video distributors on the Web and new video-enabled devices like Apple Inc's iPad will create opportunities for both networks and distributors, top cable executives said at an industry event on Wednesday.

Melbourne, May 10 (ANI): Smart phones such as Apple's iPhone are allowing children to download violent and sexually explicit games that have escaped government classification.

Starting next week Sprint Nextel Corp's Virgin unit will sell a new cellphone service plan to cater for the increasing number of young people who prefer to use their phone for text messaging rather than talking.

There was a time when the cheapest 5 megapixel camera cost upward of Rs 20,000. But things are quite different now. Spice launched its 5MP camera - the M-7070 - for under 10K and now Videocon has launched its 3MP camera phone, the V1705.

When you're reviewing mobile phones on a regular basis, it can take a lot to impress you and such phones are few and far in between. The HTC Legend is one such handset. It's designed to look good, feel good and function efficiently. Here's a closer look.

London, May 4 (ANI): Blackberry, the leading smartphone device, had been predicted a century ago by an American physicist, it has been claimed.

In the second stage of a two-part rollout, Apple Inc on Friday began selling the pricier, high-speed wireless version of the iPad in the United States, following the successful launch of the short-range Wi-Fi tablet earlier this month.

Nokia, the world's top cell phone maker, on Friday said production at its India plant has crossed 350 million handsets over its four years of operations.

Asian technology firms vying for a bigger share of the hot smartphone market now face an uphill battle after the world's top PC maker Hewlett-Packard snapped up Palm, stealing a march on rivals and potential bidders.

LG Electronics has introduced two new handsets in the Indian market ? the LG GU220 and GU285 ? which come in a sleek slider design. The GU285 is 3G enabled and has a 2.2? screen with 1.3 MP smart camera, with an added function of printing images through bluetooth.

The performance of Nokia in the high-end smartphone segment will be the key focus next week when the world's top cellphone maker is expected to report its first growth in sales for almost two years.

Telecoms gear maker Alcatel-Lucent unveiled on Tuesday a new mobile advertising platform to compete with Google, Apple and Orange in an industry which is seen as on the cusp of taking off.

A U.S. court in Delaware decided late on Friday to split the main court case between world's top handset vendor Nokia and iPhone maker Apple into three different trials and to hold these in 2012.

Chinese telecom giant, China Mobile, will invest $300 million in Pakistan in 2010, mainly on expansion of its infrastructure in the south Asian country, a company spokesman said on Friday.

Two days to Christmas, on an unusually warm afternoon in the capital, management guru Ram Charan is pacing a large conference hall at a Radisson hotel in south Delhi. His audience, the most successful consumer sales force in the country, some 250 sales and marketing people from Nokia, each key to the e4 billion, or Rs 22,700 crore, annual revenues the world's biggest phone maker counts from India.

The MCD continued sealing illegal mobile towers in various parts of the city today.

London, Mar 11 (ANI): A Japanese phone company has come up with a new technology that can track most minimal movement of mobile phone users and beams the information back to HQ.