Nokia today announced that the latest version of its home-grown smartphone platform, called Belle, is available to download. The new system software brings a refreshed look to the user interface as well as a number of under-the-hood improvements to the operating system. Belle is available to the N8, E7, E6, X7, C6-01, C7, and Oro handsets. Belle boosts ...

Verizon Wireless is dishing out a software update to the HTC Rezound smartphone that improves performance in a number of key areas. Most notable are reported improvements to the phone's signal strength and in-call audio quality, but there are other bug fixes and tweaks included as well. And no, this is not the upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich ...

AT&T has finally released the long-awaited Android 2.3 Gingerbread software upgrade for the Samsung Infuse 4G that was released last spring. The upgrade brings all of the improvements one would expect by jumping from Android 2.2 Froyo to 2.3 Gingerbread, including improved copy and paste, better battery management, and better overall performance. The Infuse ...

U.S. Cellular has announced that the Samsung Galaxy S Aviator will be its first 4G LTE smartphone when its new network launches next month. The Galaxy S Aviator runs Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread and sports a 4.3-inch display.

In addition to the Samsung Galaxy S Aviator smartphone, U.S. Cellular announced that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 will be its first 4G LTE tablet on offer when it arrives next month. The LTE version of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 appears to be the same as the model carried by Verizon Wireless since this past fall, and features Android 3.2 Honeycomb. An exact ...

A German court has denied Apple's request to ban the sale of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N tablet and Google Galaxy Nexus smartphone on the grounds of existing use of the technology Apple claims rights to.

Nokia has announced via its Twitter page that its Lumia 710 smartphone is now on sale in the UK. The Lumia 710 is the less expensive brother of the Lumia 800 that offers users a 3.7-inch, WVGA ClearBlack LCD display and is powered by a 1.4Ghz Qualcomm processor running Microsoft's Windows Phone platform. The Lumia 710 also sports a 5 megapixel camera ...

Samsung today issued a statement indicating that it plans to announce a successor to the Galaxy S II smartphone at some point later this year. "The successor to the Galaxy S II smartphone will be unveiled at a separate Samsung-hosted event in the first half of the year, closer to commercial availability of the product," said Samsung. The statement was issued ...

AT&T and Samsung today announced that the Galaxy Note Android smartphone will be available starting February 19. It will cost $299.99 with a new agreement. Pre-orders start on February 5. The Note has a 5.3-inch display and supports AT&T's LTE 4G network.

Motorola's Droid RAZR MAXX builds on the foundation set by the original RAZR and makes a wide number of improvements to an already good design. Here's Phone Scoop's full review of the RAZR MAXX.

Research In Motion today indicated that developers who want their Android applications to be available for the BlackBerry Runtime for Android in PlayBook OS 2.0 when it launches next month need to submit them no later than Monday, February 6. The Android Player is a key addition to PlayBook OS, which will be able to run Android applications in an emulator ...

Verizon Wireless today said that it has begun pushing a maintenance update to the HTC Rezound. The update improves call quality and stability. The update is being delivered over the air during the next few days.