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Nokia and Intel are merging now: Nokia and Intel are to merge their top-end smartphone operating systems, they announced on Monday, as they face increasing competition from newcomers Google and Apple.

The cellphone industry has started to focus increasingly on handset services and operating software after Apple launched its iPhone and Google rolled out its Android operating system — helping to boost sales of top-end phones.

Now Nokia, the world’s biggest maker of mobile handsets, will merge its Linux Maemo software platform, used in its flagship N900 phone, with Intel’s Moblin, which is also based on Linux open-sourced software, the companies said on Monday.

“They have understood the only way to beat Microsoft and Apple is to do it through the scale — get the platform to more devices,” said John Strand, owner and chief executive of Strand Consult.

“However, they have not realized its not about getting to many platforms, its about making something the consumer likes — the bees don’t go for the biggest garden, they go for the most beautiful flowers,” Strand said.

Nokia rolled out its first Maemo phone — the result of a five-year development project — only three months ago, with analysts seeing Maemo boosting the firm’s chances of succeeding in the higher end of the market.

The market for software platforms on cellphones is led by Nokia’s Symbian operating system, but it has lost much ground lately to Apple, BlackBerry maker Research in Motion and Google.

Nokia said it was still committed to using Symbian in most of its smartphones, but would use the new Meego in the most advanced models.

The software deal announced on Monday is also set to boost Intel’s chances of getting its chips into the cellphones of the Finnish company, which controls around 40 percent of the global phone market.

“We believe the partnership … will result in significant sales volumes for Intel,” said CCS Insight analyst John Jackson.(Source: Yahoo news)

I remember back when the BlackBerry Curve 8900 was first announced I was considering giving up my iPhone for one. Its sleek Curve-esque designed coupled with the new OS originally found on the Bold mixed with the fact that its, well, a BlackBerry was quite enticing for me. However, it seems that the folks over at T-Mobile haven’t found the device to be equally enticing to their customers.

Why do I say this, you ask? Well, the wireless carrier has apparently just sent out word that the 8900 has reached its “end of life cycle” and will no longer be sold. Of course, this is probably to make way for the BlackBerry Curve 8910 that is just around the corner.

Apple New iPhone 4G!: iPad Overload Rumors

Head hurts so bad with iPad news, time to hide in a corner and hope that iPhone 4G news will come in. The iPad aka the overgrown iPod Touch is all over the news like a rash at the moment and there seems to be no cream whatsoever to clear it.

Do not get us wrong we will no doubt be getting one but we just want to know more about the possible release of a brand new iPhone for 2010, is it going to Verizon as well, who will sell it in the UK other than the carriers we know about already, will it be called the 4G, what real specs and features will it have, will it be announced before July.

So many things we want to know and of course you want to know as well, at the moment it is iPad this iPad that and so on and on and on, which is getting quite boring now. Yes it was very cool indeed when we first heard about it and so much so we said “We want one”, but it is news about the iPhone 2010 we want to learn more about.

When it comes to keeping its future devices secret, Apple is a master at it. Just take a look at all the hype surrounding their rumored tablet PC and new iPhone for 2010, if you are to believe all that you read then the iSlate as it is known will be launched in March, and a new iPhone will launch in April or May.

There are so many questions left unanswered, and we hope that Apple will answer all of them at their press event on January 27. The Apple Tablet PC will either be called the iSlate or iPad; we reckon the former sounds better.

Then there is the 2010 iPhone, we are not certain if this new phone will just be called “iPhone 4G”. The smart money is that 4G will be included, not because it will offer 4G support, but because it is the 4th generation of iPhone from Apple.

The Acer Liquid A1 is now available in the UK market. The company’s first Android smartphone is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor with a 3.5-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen, Quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE and Triband (900/1900/2100) HSDPA, WiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and a 5-megapixel camera.

FYI, Acer has decided to underclock it to 768MHz in order to prolong the 1,350mAh battery life span. The Acer Liquid A1 is currently in stock at retailers Expansys and Clove, priced at £339.99 ($556) and £328.99 ($538), respectively.