Brighthand News

Verizon Wireless has introduced its second smartphone of the week. The Motorola Q9c is a more business-oriented version of a Windows Mobile device this telecom introduced last year.

Some of the frequently asked questions in the Brighthand forums are from people who are unfamiliar with WiMax and other emerging wireless networking standards. To help these people out, Adama Brown has prepared a beginners' guide.

AT&T is in the process of prepping the Nokia N71 for release, according to an unconfirmed report.

The BlackBerry Curve 8330 has debuted on a second wireless carrier this week. Sprint has just begun offering this smartphone, close on the heels on Verizon's launch.

Although Garmin is coming out with its own GPS-centered phone, rival TomTom isn't planning something similar. Instead, it will work with other phone makers.

During the first quarter of this year, the market for mobile phones worldwide was unaffected by the economic slowdown. In fact, shipments rose by a double-digit percentage compared to the same period in 2007.

Last week, several pictures supposedly depicting the upcoming version of the iPhone appeared on the Web. Now, an image from a second source shows what is apparently the same device.

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A new version of HTC's popular Touch smartphone with a sliding keyboard has been released in the United States. Although this model has been around for a while in Europe, the version that has just launched is the first with Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional.

Sprint Nextel and Clearwire have announced plans to combine their wireless broadband units under the Clearwire name, forming a new wireless division with an estimated worth slightly under $15 billion dollars.

There's strong evidence that Sprint is going to release the Treo 800w this summer, and a new report even names the date.

As it promised to do last month, Verizon has launched its version of the BlackBerry Curve, a smartphone designed to appeal to both business users and consumers.