The big news in smartphones from the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona isn't necessarily smart. ->

At Google's earnings call Thursday, a number of interesting things were revealed: -Android is now on 130 million devices, which contributed to a total 6 billion app downloads from the Android market. The operating system is getting activated 550,000 times a day, higher than the 500,000 number annou...

Here's food for thought: What if Blackberry ran Android apps? In an attempt to boost the appeal of BlackBerry, a device associated with work more than games (unless Brickbreaker is your thing), Research in Motion is planning models expected for next year to run apps built for the Android operating ...

Huawei Ascend II has landed on the Cricket Network, CNET reported. Huawei's low-price Ascend II is a sleek pre-paid smartphone running on the Android operating system. The original Ascend debuted in March, and this newer version is noticeably slimmer and lighter, running Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Th...

Motorola's latest is a $149.99 smartphone on Sprint's Now Network, available July 24. First announced in May, Motorola today gave more details on the Titanium, a tough-as-nails Android smartphone designed to meet military specification for dust, shock, vibration, low vibration, low pressure, solar ...

In West Virginia, there exists a town with no wireless technology. A techie's worst nightmare, but for some, this is heaven. Green Bank, W. Va., is part of the U.S. Radio Quiet Zone, where wireless technology is banned for 13,000 square miles to prevent transmissions interfering with the area's rad...

Blackberry has hit a new milestone: one billion app downloads. The smartphone maker said that since its App World launched about two years ago, the store has seen an average of 3 million downloads a day from more than 100 countries, helping it recently surpass the 1-billion-downloads mark (no word ...