Only days after announcing that it’ll make a Windows Phone 7 handset, LG also mentioned that it’ll launch an Android phone with a Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU. Till now we’ve only seen one LG Android device, the GW620, that wasn’t that impressive.

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You may remember, some time ago Palm halted the production of the Palm Pre and Palm Pre Plus smartphones in China with Palm coming out and officially announcing that manufacture of the smartphones had been places on temporary hold due to the Chinese New Year.

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China Unicom have announced their intention to launch Android phones and have stated that they have an open attitude on mobile operating systems.

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Samsung has launched the Samsung Diva, a fashion-based handset with pretty budget features.

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Skype and Nokia today jointly announced the release of Skype for Symbian, a Skype client for Nokia smartphones based on the Symbian platform, the world’s most popular smartphone platform. Skype for Symbian will allow Nokia smartphone users worldwide to use Skype on the move, over either a WiFi or mobile data connection (GPRS, EDGE, 3G). It is now downloadable for free from the Ovi Store, Nokia’s one-stop shop for mobile content.

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T-Mobile USA have announced the Nokia 5230 Nuron, the touchscreen smartphone we’ve previously seen as the Nokia 5230 XpressMusic. Packing a 3.2-inch resistive touchscreen, full HTML browser and 3G connectivity, the Nuron also delivers Nokia’s Ovi Maps complete with free turn-by-turn navigation and access to Lonely Planet travel guides and other content.

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Apple [AAPL] has filed a lawsuit against mobile phone maker HTC over iPhone Patents. HTC make a number of mobile phones which run Google’s Android OS, and they also make the Google branded Nexus One smartphone.

The lawsuit was filed by Apple today at the US district court in Delaware, and with the US ITC. The lawsuit alleges that HTC has infringed on twenty Apple patents. All of these patents are related to Apple’s iPhone.

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At last, the Facebook application for the Zune HD has been released. It has elements of the Metro interface that Microsoft is utilizing on Windows Phone 7 Series devices, and so looking at the this rendition of Facebook, we can get a sense for how other apps would look on WP7.

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US carrier Verizon will permit Skype calls over its 3G network starting in March, using a number of devices including several models of BlackBerry as well as Android smartphones from HTC and Motorola.

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Microsoft hasn’t ruled out the possibility of Mac support for Windows Phone 7 Series yet, which may be good news for OS X users as Windows Mobile’s ActiveSync environment (and subsequent Windows Device Manager) was limited to the PC. Microsoft’s Aaron Woodman gave a non-committal answer on The Engadget Show where he showed off an early LG made Windows Phone 7 model.

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