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HTC is presumably hiring staff preparing to build its own mobile applications market.

This was the notice made today by the Financial Times, which supposed two sources with knowledge of the situation confirmed an online store for e-books and apps was in the offing.

The Taiwanese firm’s mobile devices presently run Google’s Android mobile OS, over and above Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7 OS, meaning if an app store were to open it would go into direct competition with Android’s Market and Window’s Marketplace.

HTC has been growing progressively stronger over the course of the year, thanks to the detonation of smartphones. Nonetheless, even with a third quarter profit of £1.6 billion, it only places fifth in producer league tables behind Nokia, Apple, RIM and Samsung, according to a recent report by IDC.

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Hear is a cell phone that costs cheaper than a cup of coffee. Carphone Warehouse is introducing the final throwaway accessory – the 99p mobile device. The retail series claims the OT-209, which is produced by French firm Alcatel, is the cheapest pay-as-you-go handset ever to be sold in the UK.

Customers, who don’t use an expensive contract, will be linked to the Virgin network. The phone is aimed at first time customers and people phased by technology. It has just a handful features and is uncomplicated to use. The phone comes with FM radio.

‘I guess it reflects just how competitive the UK mobile market has become between carriers and manufacturers. Mobile phones are such an important part of people’s lives and so many are manufactured that they have become very cheap to make.’

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PC provider Acer has provided the Liquid Metal smartphone, a  device which it hopes will allow it to compete with the major rivals in what is becoming an increasingly crowded market.

The Acer Liquid Metal’s specifications make interesting reading, with version 2.2 of Android onboard accompanied by the specialised Breeze user interface.

It’s 5MP camera with HD video capture lurks on the rear, whilst a 3.6 inch display using capacitive touch technology makes an appearance on the front, making it a hair larger than the iPhone 4. Sadly the display’s resolution is unlikely to match that of Apple’s smartphone king.

An 800MHz processor will give life to Android, but it is slightly strange to see a new mobile emerging with anything less than 1GHz of processing power under the hood, so it will be interesting to see how the Acer Liquid Metal has been optimised to squeeze the most from this chip.

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Coming soon Motorola DEFY is a smartphone  with fully touch resistive camera in bar design shape that becomes real eye catcher. Motorola DEFY comes with specs such as  3.7″ inch Capacitive Touchscreen Display, Screen resolutions of 480 x 854 pixels, 5 Megapixels Camera with LED Flash, Accelerometer, 512 RAM MB and 2 GB storage, Memory cards up to 32GB support, Wi -Fi 802.11b / g.

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Canadian mobile provider Research in Motion (RIM) has pulled back the curtains on the BlackBerry Bold 9780, divulging details about its specifications and even hinting at a UK launch date.

The Bold 9780 follows in the footsteps of the 9700 containing several updates. Firstly the latest version of the BlackBerry OS is onboard, bringing a better web browsing experience and deeper social networking integration to the table.

The Bold 9780 does not diverge much from the standard BlackBerry layout of portrait QWERTY keypad and familiar black shell. The five megapixel camera will allow the smartphone to sit on a level pegging with RIM’s Torch gadjet in terms of photographic features.

The phone comes with Wi-Fi connectivity and Bluetooth are, the retail package should include a 2GB microSD memory card, although it seems that you can  supplement this with a larger card of their own.

RIM has not been too specific about the launch date of the BlackBerry Bold 9780 but it has said that it will be coming in November, which means it could be just a few weeks away from a UK launch.

Judging by the initial specs, the BlackBerry Bold 9780 will appease those long time RIM fans who want an incremental upgrade to their existing phones.

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