Photographs and a few details of LG’s upcoming smartphone, codenamed LG B, have been leaked on the Web by Phandroid, an Android-centric blog. Within a few hours of the leak, LG’s official Twitter account announced that the LG B phone would be shown at LG Bloggers Meet on Jan. 5.

Under pressure mobile phone maker Nokia unveiled its plans for 2011 that include a smarter User Interface (UI) for Symbian and lots of phones around Nvidia's dual core Tegra 2 processors.

LG Electronics has launched its new smartphone GM730 (also known as Eigen GM730) in India. The phone features a 3-inch WQVGA resistive touchscreen display with resolution of 240 x 400 pixels.  LG GM730 smartphone comes with a price tag of Rs. 19,000 in India.

Another picture of HTC’s new cell phone EVO Shift 4G, also known as HTC Knight and HTC Speedy, has surfaced on the Web. The image looks manipulated — technology blog Ubergizmo says there’s something about the phone’s screen that is rather weird — so the photo might not be entirely indicative of the real device. See the previously leaked picture here.

Huawei plans to become a standalone brand in the Indian mobile phone market. The first device from the company will run on Google Android and will cost less than Rs. 10,000. This smartphone should arrive here within the next couple of weeks.

It is rumored that Motorola Olympus would reach the US markets some time in the month of December or January. Originally, the Olympus was slated for release towards the end of January 2010.

The latest news is that Motorola’s most-anticipated Android phone is code named the ‘Olympus’ and would be rolled out in markets by Q1 2011.

ARM has introduced the new Cortex A15 Core processor that could enable smartphones to run at speeds of 2.5GHz.

After the successful launch of the Galaxy S Android smartphone, Samsung is all set to launch the Galaxy Q phone.

The new quick messaging phone from Sharp, the Sharp FX, is now available on the AT&T network in US for a price of $ 99.99 after a mail in rebate and two year contract.