Winners of Symbian Star Developer competition are announced today. According to Symbian, the awards are to recognize the most unique and innovative applications developed for mobile phones based on Symbian OS, as chosen by Forum Nokia, Motorola, NAVTEQ and Symbian Academy. It seems like Symbian is trying to push more developers to program appliations for Symbian operating system, afraid that Google’s Android or Apple’s iPhone OS will eat up Symbian’s marketshare.

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The new war among high-tech companies, Mobile operating system war, is getting a lot hotter with the introduction of Google G1 phone that is powered by a promising open-source mobile operating system, Android. The world’s number 1 cellular phone maker, Nokia, is getting worried that its marker share in cellular phone market will be challenged by other mobile operating systems, should Nokia failed to improve its S60 operating system. The porting of Qt platform for S60 signals that Nokia is trying to invite more developers to program applications for S60.

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Will China leapfrog US in TD-LTE technology implementation? It looks like they will. China Mobile, the world’s largest cell phone in terms of subscribers, has been jointly implementing tests with relevant operators to set up TD-SCDMA long term evolution networks in 2010, according to the telco’s technology chief.

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Our friends at FCC are nice enough to put an approval stamp on the HTC Dream, the first Gphone that is going to run on Google’s Android operating system. It is confirmed that the Dream moniker got a jog ball, Wi-Fi and it’s running on the 850/1700/1900MHz bands. Please stay tuned for more updates.

Targetting Office Lady (OL), DoCoMo releases the NEC N906iu flip phone that looks very alike to Samsung flip phones. The N906iu features a 3.2-megapixel digital camera, built-in MP3 digital music player, microSD memory expansion slot that supports up to 2GB of memory upgrade, 1-Seg high-definition TV support, E-mail, and Full internet browsing. The N906iu is only 12.99 mm wide, a little bit over half inch, making it very easy for ladies to carry around or slide it inside a bag.

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Believe it or not, Big, the maker of disposable pen and razor, announces Big mobile phone! Bic keeps the same orange color scheme of its first Bic phone as its razor. The Bic phone is made by Alcatel, and comes with 10 minutes worth of credit and fully charged battery. Surprisingly, the phone has FM radio tuner and supports SMS messaging. The phone is set to launch in French and its suggested retailing price is 49 Euros.

This is the picture of BlackBerry Thunder, which is leaked by UnWiredView. The BlackBerry Thunder is also called Blackberry 9500, it has a very similiar interface of iPhone 3G, also featuring a big touchscreen (360 x 480 resolution) without QWERTY keyboard. Please check back for more updates.

This month has been a pretty busy month for LG, the Korea cellular phone maker. As soon as LG launched the LG Dare, and LG Decoy less than 1 week ago, LG officially unearths the LG Secret in a big launch party in Singapore. The touch sensitive LG Secret features Neon Touch Navigation buttons that respond to commands with illustrious effects in lavish blue.

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When United States is trying hard to recover from the sluggish economy due to the mess of subprime mortgages, UK are making plan for the future. According to the government advisory body the Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG), “widespread deployment of next-generation broadband–which is significantly faster than current fat pipes–is critical for the U.K. economy.”

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In a recent interview with APC, Palm CEO Ed Colligan said the company’s long-awaited operating system of the future will center around the Internet, and be distinct from the familiar Palm OS that’s currently available.

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Mobiado has designed a new luxury phone that deserves no other name but “Professional.” The Professional 105 ZAF offers users a luxurious and fashionable design with the ultimate in reliability. This new phone boasts the thinnest design of all luxury phones and at 10.6mm thin, I think we will all agree.

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ASOCS has introduced a new innovation for mobile devices: a MulitComms processor. This new MP100 MultiComms processor is a single chip that would be inserted into a mobile device and would be capable of supporting several applications such as GSM, WiFi, Mobile TV, and GPS. Users would be able to access more applications with their mobile phones than they might have had access to otherwise. The combination of multiple interfaces that this combination would create would in turn allow manufacturers to reduce their manufacturing costs by half. They would also be able to reduce power consumption by up to 70%, a very important feature for many users today.

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