Since the introduction of the Apple iPhone on January the 9th, the world has gone touch pad crazy, touch pad technology is the way of the future and many companies have heard the call and made their own touch pad phones in direct competition with the iPod. Now is touchscreen, the iPhone has its own mobile category (The iPhone Killer), almost all manufacturers realize that if they want to sell their smartphones they should label them as …

Indians will no longer need to illegally buy, unlock and then use the most-desired item on gadget lovers’ lists — the Apple iPhone. Its much-awaited and delayed India launch is expected with telecom operator Vodafone in the first week of September.

The Cupertino, California-based company, according to Apple retail sources, said initially the 8 GB version of the much-hyped touchscreen device — which combines Wi-Fi capabilities with a powerful email client, TV feeds, online music store and map-based …

If you are the 800 pounds gorilla, the one that controls the mobile phone market, the one that sales more phones that all your rivals together… Why are you launching a product that looks like one of your smaller rival?

Nokia is preparing Tube, an iPhone lookalike to compete with the iphone….

Got it? Maybe they fear something we really don’t know or maybe the iphone grew faster than they thought. Anyway, touchscreen is everywhere and the Tube will …

Xperia X1, Sony Ericsson
If you’re still waiting for that elusive day when Apple decides to make its iPhones available in Canada, forget that and check out Sony Ericsson’s latest entrant in the field.

A Windows Mobile device that offers iPhone-like features such as the touch-screen and comes with a full QWERTY keyboard, the Xperia X1 was announced by Sony Ericsson at the Mobile World Congress in Spain with availability in selected markets expected in the second half of …

Dealextreme.com is selling an extraordinary and revolutionary Windows Mobile based phone, that can knocks the iphone out of the water, but at the same time provides more business features that the smartphone from Apple lacks, the only problem IS that the Daxian X999 uses the iPhone form factor. Believe me that sometimes I think that those iPhone ripoffs are made by Apple, because how can you make something SOOOOOOO similar to the iphone and them market …

The iPhone development community has done it again. Software/firmware revision 1.1.3 has been jailbroken (full read/write access to the filesystem), meaning that unofficial third-party applications can be installed under this release. Unfortunately, the current method is so complex that its developers have decided to hold off a public release. However, they have posted a YouTube video, embedded below, demonstrating a jailbroken iPod Touch running firmware 1.1.3. We have confirmed that this video is legitimate, and that the …

The iphone has taken the mobile phone community by storm with the unique design and innovation it carries. The mobile phone manufacturers are waking up, some of them are trying to bring something that knocks down the iphone phenomenum while the majority has opted for mimic functions and form. LG and Samsung announced phones packed with a lot of the iphone features, but Digisino Technology, a tawainese manufacturer of Mp3 Player & Mp4 Player, USB Flash …

iRiver GSM phone is making it debut at the CES. It features a 3-inch, 480×272 touch screen and has no keypad; you navigate by touching, flicking or swiping the screen. The icons in the Linux-based phone’s UI are similar to the iPhone’s. Other specs include4-Gbytes of flash storage, music and video players with Rhapsody music support, a two-megapixel camera with camcorder, an Adobe Flash player, GPS and mobile TV. It is undecided whether the phone will have …

U.S. software group Microsoft will not launch a product that competes directly with Apple Inc’s iPhone, Chairman Bill Gates said in an interview with Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

“No, we won’t do that. In the so-called smart phone business we will concentrate solely on software with our Windows Mobile programme,” Gates was quoted as saying in the interview published on Wednesday.

“We have partnerships with a lot of device manufacturers from Samsung to Motorola and this variety brings us …

Excitement about the Apple iPhone and similar high-end mobile phones has created a secondary market for less expensive Chinese knockoffs in the UAE.

Stores in Dubai’s central business districts of Deira and Bur Dubai are stocking up on the Chinese clones, which include imitations of other famous brands including Sony Ericsson and Nokia.

The number of phones imported into the country from China is unknown, but importers and shopkeepers said the demand for the knockoffs has been high and …