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  In pictures: Android 4 'Ice Cream Sandwich'

• In pictures: Android 4 'Ice Cream Sandwich'

  By Galen Gruman | 01 November, 2011 10:25

  Google's mobile OS gets a major upgrade this week if the tipsters are right, but there's no need to wait to see some of the new capabilities in action.

• Samsung wave makes a splash at Mobile World Congress

  By Ginny Mies | 15 February, 2010 08:33

  When Samsung announced that it was developing its own mobile operating system, one question came to mind: Do we really need another mobile OS? Whether we do or not, Samsung's Bada OS has made its debut at Mobile World Congress on the new Samsung Wave handset. While I'm not yet sold on the software, the Wave has some pretty hard-to-ignore features.

• Symbian lays out mobile OS roadmap

  By Paul Krill | 09 January, 2010 12:08

  Symbian Foundation, responsible for development of the Symbian mobile OS, is readying its Symbian^3 and Symbian^4 versions of the platform, with version 3 likely to be feature-complete next month, a Symbian blogger said this week.

• Android Market hits 20,000 apps milestone

  By Daniel Ionescu | 17 December, 2009 01:31

  Google's mobile app store, the Android Market, has doubled in size in the last five months, and now hosts more than 20,000 applications, according to unofficial numbers from specialist portal AndroLib.

• Microsoft Windows Mobile 7 delayed until 2010

  By Carrie-Ann Skinner | 16 December, 2009 04:23

  Microsoft has revealed that Windows Mobile 7 - the next version of its smartphone OS - is unlikely to be released until "late 2010".

• Android 2.0.1: A hands-on tour

  By JR Raphael | 12 December, 2009 06:27

  Step aside, Android 2.0 -- Android 2.0.1 has arrived.

• Sneak peek: Nokia's Symbian OS upgrade

  By Daniel Ionescu | 05 December, 2009 02:30

  Nokia is upping the ante against rivals such as Apple and Google with its preview of the upcoming iteration of Symbian OS (V3) for touchscreen devices. The upgraded mobile operating system is expected sometime next year, together with a bunch of new devices.

• Nokia CEO underscores support for Symbian

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 03 December, 2009 01:52

  Symbian's future on Nokia's smartphones has been questioned lately, but Nokia's support for the OS remains unchanged for the foreseeable future, CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said during a keynote at the company's Capital Markets Day on Wednesday.

• Mobile's future: Outrageous but possible predictions

  By Tom Kaneshige | 16 December, 2009 07:20

  'Tis the season of mobile predictions. As this year comes to an end and a new decade begins, Mobclix, which operates a mobile ad exchange network, has gazed into its crystal ball and foreseen 10 mobile trends-many of which are, in fact, pretty outrageous.

• Samsung intros Bada mobile OS: Do we need It?

  By Daniel Ionescu | 12 November, 2009 02:03

  Samsung introduced Bada, what the company calls a mobile platform for a new breed of its smartphones. But is there really a need for yet another mobile OS, next to the likes of Apple, Microsoft or Google?