Sony Xperia Z is already up for pre-order in the UK. This handset comes with a price-tag of £528 (approx. $850).

Samsung recnetly announced the new Galaxy S II Plus smartphone. This handset will be shipped with the newer Android 4.1 OS and Samsung’s latest Touchwiz Nature UX out-of-the-box.

Nokia today unveiled its Windows Phone 8 portfolio of handsets for the Indian market – the Lumia 920, 820 and 620.

Nokia finally seems to have caught a break, and has kicked off the new year with some unexpected good news. The fourth quarter turned out to be better than expected, and the Lumia series experienced solid sales.

AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon will all give Blackberry 10 devices a chance on their networks.

ZTE Grand S was recently announced at the CES 2013. This handset comes with a 5 inch 1080p display, 1.7 GHz quad-core processor and 2 GB of RAM.

Samsung has announced Exynos 5 Octa, which will feature two clusters of quad-core CPUs to improve performance while reducing power consumption.

Unlike most other touchscreen manufacturers of the day, Tactus isn’t attempting to compete with resolution, pixel density, vibrancy etc. The distinguishing feature of the Tactus touchscreen is its ability to morph into a keyboard.

Huawei Ascend W1 is the company’s first device running on the Windows Phone 8 OS. This device will go on sale from this month in China and Russia.

Lenovo has unveil the first handset powered by Intel’s Clover Trail+ SoC – the Lenovo K900.

Thanks to some stellar investigative work by an XDA member, we may have gotten our first look at how the Tegra 4 performs in real-life benchmarks.

Mozilla has revealed some of the new features in store for Firefox for Android in 2013. They include private browsing, improved customizability, and enhanced compatibility.

Huawei Ascend D2 was recently unveiled at the CES 2013 in Las Vegas. This device comes with a 5 inch 1080p Full HD IPS+ display, 1.5 GHz quad-core processor, 13 megapixel camera and so on.

Huawei recently announced the Ascend Mate smartphone. This device is touted to be a “smartphone with the largest screen in the world”.

Qualcomm has unveiled its new ultra-fast mobile SoCs – the Snapdragon 600 and Snapdragon 800.