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Americans love the $50 clamshell, but a small, growing number of wealthy people are paying astronomical prices for feature phones that often sport a cachet-laden brand name or are slathered …

Motorola Inc.’s co-CEO Gregory Brown has plenty of incentive to see the company’s phone business spun of as a public company. According to a new three-year employment agreement signed Wednesday, …

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News teamed with the Yankee Group to conduct a series of market surveys of RCR Wireless News subscribers to gauge their thoughts on various technology issues. …

Google Inc. unveiled its answer to Apple Inc.’s App Store, outlining a distribution system for applications built on its Android platform.Android Market will serve as an unrestricted storefront where registered …

The bad news continued for IXI Mobile Inc. as the Ogo-maker slashed 25% of its workforce and abandoned the U.S. market.The Belmont, Calif.-based outfit cut its second-quarter loss to $11.4 …

A slice of iPhone 3G owners have said they are experiencing 3G connectivity issues such as weak signals, dropped calls and devices that revert from a carrier’s 3G network to …

Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for …

With the whole world watching, the Olympic Games in China are a great time and place to deliver messages to the world. Samsung’s message to the world (today): We care.Samsung …

Three things you need to know about the handset market in the United States last quarter, courtesy of Strategy Analytics: 1) Overall unit sales reached nearly 42 million, up 5.3% …

The maturing U.S. handset market continued to chug along in the first half of the year – though slowing relative to years past – and analysts offered an array of …

The LiMo Foundation announced nine new members today and said that more handsets with its operating system are launching in North America and Japan. The organization is a leading proponent …

Safran said it will swallow $343 million to spin off its troubled Sagem Mobiles division to venture capital firm Sofinnova.Sofinnova plans to rebrand the handset manufacturer as Sagem Wireless, with …