You’ve got plenty of choices right now when it comes to mobile operating systems: iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Bada, Tizen… heck, even Symbian is still shipping on certain handsets. Even so, Canonical figures it’s time to... 

Opera has made some major improvements to its Mobile and Mini browsers in recent versions, and today at MWC 2012 they’ve announced a new spate of enhancements to their smartphone and tablet versions. First up is a new channel for Opera Mini, Opera... 

Earlier this year, Nokia set off a chain of spit-takes around the world by announcing that it was going to move away from Symbian. Of course, that didn’t come as a complete surprise since reports had also previously pegged a move from Symbian to... 

Nokia has long held the number one smartphone manufacturer spot worldwide, mostly because for the longest time they were the only company making smartphones to be sold outside the United States. Now, with the Symbian platform essentially dead in the... 

After only a year on the job, Nokia’s chief technology officer Richard Green has taken a leave of absence. Nokia said it is for a “personal matter,” and Green’s return date is still to be determined. The big question is if Green really left for... 

As Intel works to make the Atom suitable as a smartphone chip over the coming years, Fujitsu has gone and stuck one of the existing Atoms inside a phone as a second processor. The reason? To allow it to double as a portable Windows PC. The phone was... 

Gartner has finished collecting data on mobile phone sales and market share for the first quarter of 2011, and while no one expected Android to slow down, few people expected the platform to pick up as much steam as it has. Android devices now make up... 

The Ovi brand of mobile services will be one of the first casualties of Nokia’s deal with Microsoft. As Nokia plans to bring Windows Phones to market exclusively, the Ovi brand name is going away. The services will stick around under Nokia’s... 

It’s not unusual to see two layoffs arise when two major companies sign a partnership. In the case of Nokia and Microsoft, which announced its partnership back in February, Nokia employees will be seeing a lot of layoffs — 4,000 to be exact.... 

Near Field Communication, also known as NFC, is about to get a ton more popular. Nokia announced in a blog post today that it is partnering with Rovio, the publisher of everyone’s favorite bird-vs-pig game, Angry Birds. The partnership will bring... 

If you want to know one of the reasons why Nokia has lagged behind Apple and other mobile phone manufacturers in the recent past, you might want to take a look at what the company’s executives did with their summers. Adam Greenfield, who used to... 

Angry Birds Rio has already made it’s way to the iTunes App store ($0.99 iPhone, $2.99 iPad), but Rovio has now pushed the popular gaming franchise out to both Mac ($4.99) and Android ($0.99) devices via the Mac App Store and Amazon Appstore. Android... 

Even though Nokia’s CEO has agreed a Microsoft partnership to use Windows Phone on handsets, that doesn’t actually mean we’ll be seeing a Nokia Windows Phone any time soon. In fact, it’s going to be several months before we get... 

While Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop has steered the company into a Microsoft future, not everyone is happy about it. Workers have walked out in Finland, and now a group of shareholders is planning a new strategy called “Nokia Plan B”. The... 

Earlier today Microsoft and Nokia announced a new mobile partnership that would see Windows become the OS of choice on Nokia handsets going forward. We’ll also see Bing and adCenter dominate on Nokia phones while Symbian and MeeGo become effectively...