Devices

SingTel, the Singapore-based pan-Asian mobile group, has reported a 12 percent drop in quarterly net profit citing unfavourable currency movements and costs associated with Apple's iPhone 3G.

Verizon Wireless said today it will sell the new touch screen BlackBerry Storm for US$199.99, reports Reuters.

Mobile handset vendor HTC has unveiled a new device that claims to be the world's first integrated GSM/WiMAX handset.

US mobile operator AT&T has launched the Samsung Eternity, a 3G touch screen device, reports IntoMobile.

Four South Korean companies - operators KTF and SKT, as well as Samsung and Gameloft - were winners in the GSMA's Asia Mobile Awards.

Reuters notes that hundreds of people lined up at some Verizon Wireless stores on Friday to buy the BlackBerry Storm, the first touchscreen phone from Research In Motion that aims to compete with Apple's iPhone.

The Inquirer reports that, in a bid to challenge Apple in the smartphone market, Microsoft is planning to launch a device based on Nvidia technology in 2009.