THE Google Phone, widely touted as the first serious rival to the Apple iPhone, is being launched in Australia today through Optus.
Made by Taiwanese electronics company HTC, and dubbed the Dream, it is the first smartphone in the world to use Android, an open-source computer-style operating system built by Google and based on the Linux [...]

A U.K.-based mobile phone maker plans to start selling next year a novel smartphone originally built for the British military called the Icephone.
The 3G (third generation mobile telecommunications) 3-inch touchscreen handset unfolds to three panels: the screen, a full QWERTY typing pad and a game pad with multiple triggers.
“The phone changes shape to suit [...]

I thought we were done with big phone announcements for the year, but it looks like Nokia had one last trick up its sleeves. Behold the N97, a sleek new touchscreen handset with 3G data access, a slide-out QWERTY keypad, customizable widgets, and more.
Nokia invited a small group of reporters and bloggers—including me—to check out [...]