Nokia Announces 1.5 Billion S40 Phones Sold, Mobilicity Launching the Samsung Galaxy Nexus & iPhone 5 Will Launch in Summer?

Nokia Announces 1.5 Billion S40 Phones Sold
Well, apparently a lady over in So Paulo, Brazil has today purchased the 1.5 billionth phone running the operating system in the form of the Nokia Asha 303. Nokia is calling it “one of the most significant milestones” in company history.
TechCrunch

Mobilicity Launching the Samsung Galaxy Nexus on February 6th
Mobilicity is having an event in Toronto tonight with a few HowardForums members, aptly titled “HoFoLicity”. During the event there’s some talk about the Big 3 spectrum hoarding, but from a device perspective it’s the Galaxy Nexus that’s taking the limelight.
MobileSyrup

iPhone 5 Will Have 4-Inch Screen, Launch in Summer
The report goes on to say that production of iPhone 5 could begin soon, perhaps with a summer release. While you should look at all of this information with a skeptical eye, a raised eyebrow and folded arms, the rumor sounds slightly more credible than the junk typically spewed out from Taiwan industry pub DigiTimes.
Mashable

Samsung Galaxy S III Not Launching at MWC in February?
According to reports from both The Verge and BestBoyZ, Samsung will not be launching the Galaxy S III at the Mobile World Congress as was rumored yesterday. The launch, which had originally been planned for MWC, has instead been delayed until an undetermined date.
GottaBeMobile

Apple Reportedly Looking to Adopt 802.11ac 5G Gigabit Wi-Fi, Windows Phone Marketplace hits 60,000 Apps & Sony Xperia Ion Pricing Revealed?

Apple Reportedly Looking to Adopt 802.11ac 5G Gigabit Wi-Fi This Year
Apple may be looking to incorporate support for 802.11ac Wi-Fi specification into the company’s products this year, according to a report from AppleInsider. The new standard offers three times the speed of the 802.11n standard, capable of achieving speeds of over 1 Gigabit per second.
BGR

Sony Xperia Ion Pricing Revealed?
This time it looks like we’ve got rumored pricing for the Xperia Ion handset we played with at CES. A pre-order page has appeared at Negri Electronics that offers the handset for $569.50 unlocked.
Engadget

4 Things RIM’s New CEO Can Do to Fix the Company
Heins’ strategy is very risky considering the head-start RIM’s competitors have had, but it has the biggest long-term potential payoff. Make no mistake, though: RIM will have its work more than cut out for it when the first BB10 phones arrive later this year.
Mashable

Windows Phone Marketplace hits 60,000 Apps Milestone
Windows Phone users and fans have something to celebrate over this last weekend. According to the latest report from All About Windows Phone, the Marketplace pushed past the 60,000 published app marker.
SmartPhoneEnvy

HSBC Canada Mobile Banking App Now Available, ZTE Aims to Double Phone Shipments & Samsung Galaxy S III Caught on Camera?

HSBC Canada Mobile Banking App for iPhone Now Available
Majority of our Canadian banks have a mobile banking app – CIBC, TD, RBC, ING – and now HSBC. If you bank with HSBC and have an iPhone you can download the app for free.
MobileSyrup

Samsung Galaxy S III Caught on Camera?
The unidentified phone turned up during a video that Samsung has published celebrating its CES 2012 press conference with highlights from the show. Popping up just after the 7-minute mark, the handset can be seen in the palm of an actor making use of the Samsung viewfinder app.
Pocket-lint

ZTE Reaches for the Sky, Aims to Double Phone Shipments in 2012
Talk about a New Years Resolution: ZTE’s head of handset strategy Lv Qianhao, in an interview with Reuters, mentioned that in 2012 his company expects to double the number of smartphone shipments made last year, as well as expand its Windows Phone efforts.
Engadget

LightSquared’s 4G LTE Network Will Always Interfere With GPS, Government Says
The announcement comes as a crushing blow for the startup, which is looking to build an LTE network with the company’s 1600MHz frequency. Preliminary testing last year showed that LightSquared’s planned network interfered with GPS. After a handful of rebuttals, changes, and more testing, the government has decided to pull the plug and request no further testing.
BGR

StrikeAd Strikes 2 Million Second Round From DFJ Esprit To Expand

StrikeAd, a London and New York based mobile advertising startup, has secured a 2m second round investment from VCs DFJ Esprit expand further internationally. The investment follows a first round finance from Germany-based venture capital firm eValue announced in February 2011. It recently announced a move into the Japanese market in conjunction with mediba Inc., a leading Tokyo-based advertising business.

StrikeAd offers a mobile-specific advertising Demand Side Platform which lets media agencies manage global mobile ad campaigns from multiple advertisers from a single platform. StrikeAd claims to be unique in that its a real time platform managing over 30 billion page impressions per month via integrations with all the major mobile media exchanges, enabling a simpler purchase and optimisation of ad inventory.

Alex Rahaman, CEO of StrikeAd says the backing from DFJ Esprit will allow the company to develop new areas of technology – such as cross-device targeting.

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Google Search for Android Updated, EmporiaCLICK and EmporiaSOLID Focus on the Senior Cell Phone Market & Facebook Comments Box Now On Mobile

Google Search for Android Updated for Devices Running Froyo or Gingerbread
Quick app update here regarding the Google Search app for Android. If you have a device running OS 2.2 or OS 2.3 you should be getting a notification that the app has been updated.
MobileSyrup

Hands-On: EmporiaCLICK and EmporiaSOLID
Emporia Telecom has high hopes for the emporiaCLICK and emporiaSOLID. Both offer simple designs, easy-to-use features, and focus strongly on the senior cell phone market. Both are dual-band GSM/EDGE devices supporting 850/1900MHz so they can be used on either AT&T or T-Mobile USA’s networks.
Phone Scoop

Intel Medfield Atom Android Smartphone Pictures and Hands-on
The Android Gingerbread smartphone, which will be available to programmers as a development unit ahead of the big Intel mobile push (or indeed skinned and sold by phone companies) boasts a spec sheet that would put it on par with most high-end Android handsets.
Pocket-lint

Facebook Comments Box Now On Mobile, And Over 400,000 Web Sites
Now when Comments Box detects a mobile device user agent, it will automatically show the mobile version. The new soft update to the Comments Box doesn’t require any developer interaction to enable, it just works.
TechCrunch

Motorola and Intel Enter Into a Multi-year Agreement, Update to Google Maps Improves Battery Life & Motorola RAZR Officially Available at Fido

Motorola and Intel Enter Into a Multi-year, Multi-device Agreement for Intel-based Devices
Motorola and Intel have entered into a multi-year, multi-device strategic partnership to incorporate Intel chips into Motorola’s Android tablets and smartphones. The first Intel-based smartphones will go through carrier validation this summer, with launch shortly after that.
BGR

Motorola RAZR Officially Available at Fido, $525 Outright
The new Motorola RAZR has officially landed at Fido. This Android 2.3 device is still the thinnest smartphone on the market at 7.1mm (at its thinnest point).
MobileSyrup

Update to Google Maps Improves Battery Life, Public Transit Options and More
A new version of Google Maps has hit the Android Market today, which simultaneously brings fresher location tracking within Latitude and better battery life — two welcome improvements that seem contrary to one another. There’s also a couple goodies included for the transit-minded folks.
Engadget

Cellphone Users Like to Be Drunk
If you’re trying to drink less booze in the New Year, you might want to put down your cellphone. A study released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control shows that cellphone users are more likely to binge drink than other groups surveyed.
Mashsable