Details like, for instance, the camera resolutions were left unmentioned. Previous rumors have said it would carry a 12-megapixels camera together with the front camera. The faster processor is supposed to offer it 1,080-pixel video recording. The phone may ship with the outdated operating system Android 2.3.5, although it would have a new-looking version of the Timescape interface of Sony Ericsson.

If Sony will keep what it did this year, its new phone Xperia Arc HD might be unveiled at CES in January and would ship within other few months. If the phone will not be available by that time, it will have to wait until late February, at the Mobile World Congress.

Under this deal, countries of the European Union will have to make the 800MHz frequency band free for wireless broadband services before that date. After 2013, but before 2015, mobile data traffic would be assigned at least 1,200MHz. By the 1st of January 2015, the European Commission has to determine if supplementary spectrum would be needed to handle the development of wireless data traffic.

Like in North America, the LTE networks will offer data download speeds reaching 150Mbps, while HSPA and HSPA+ 3G networks very common in the country only provide 7.2Mbps and 21Mbps. Deployment of 4G services has lagged in Europe. In the United States, many carriers are advanced on their way to widespread deployment. For instance, Sprint has plans on offering LTE in 120 cities by the end of next year, and extending it in more than 260 areas, while 250 million people will benefit from it until the end of 2013. Verizon has even more aggressive plans. It intends to cover more than 178 markets by the end of this year. By the end of 2013, its 3G network will be completely overlaid with 4G services.

Another carrier, AT&T, has its own network in five cities.

Regulation of bandwidth in Europe has been, until now, up to each country. The United Kingdom had plans of auctioning up its bandwidth next year, in the spring. The scheduling has however been put of until late next year. Initial deployment of 4G will happen in 2013.

Samsung may have revealed a real hardware baseline for the new Android 4.0 operating system when saying that any device had to have at least WVGA at 400×800 to receive an upgrade.

Android 4.0 will help most the Galaxy Note and Galaxy S II, both of them getting major phone interface changes. The changes are subtler on a tablet and mainly include updated core applications and face unlock, as well as others that are not dependent on the size of the screen.

While showing Samsung decided to support its older hardware, it is still clear that the Galaxy Nexus is the only device of Samsung to carry Android 4.0 in the near future. Other devices are likely to appear at the CES expo in January and in February at Mobile World Congress.

While Apple dipped to only 14.6 percent of the whole smartphone zone, Samsung touched 23.8 percent. Nokia had 16.8 million devices sold and, with its 14.4 percent, is still behind Apple

The success Samsung was credited with is a consequence of getting “memorable” brands in “elegant” hardware. Most people have connected the recent run to the Galaxy S II. It has managed to sell over ten million devices since its arrival in April. Although sales of cheaper or older models, such as the original Galaxy S versions or budget Galaxy ace phones, had a contribution to these results, their sales are considerably smaller.

Sales of smartphones are a central point for a rather downbeat quarter, with chips and displays dragging the profit down. Apple has had record sales with the occasion of the iPhone launches and it is already established that iPhone 4S sales have even offset the company’s summer drop. Therefore, Samsung may not keep its top position for a long time. Apple is adding KDDI and Sprint to its carrier choice for the first time and expects to see its new phone arriving on Verizon too.

Operating profit at $2.3 billion was over double and came mainly from runaway success of handsets like the Galaxy S II. Although the company did not say how many smartphones and cellphones it had shipped, leaks have mentioned over twenty million smartphones and topped the 17.07 million iPhones of Apple. This success is not supposed to repeat as Apple waits for its iPhone 4S to establish historical sale records.

Samsung’s past fall quarter might get a lift from sales of the holiday, but most of that may still come from smartphones, such as the Galaxy Nexus, as well as closely related components that the company provides to itself and to customers including Apple, like mobile screens and flash memory.

There is no mention of the preliminary bans Apple requested on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Germany and Australia and also a brief ban related to the Galaxy phone line.

Talks of a November 3 arrival stateside also existed. Whatever the arrival date would be, the device will be available through a number of carriers including Verizon. The handset is expected to support LTE and cost $300 with a two-year contract.

The main features of the new phone are its operating system, a dual-core 1.2GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, a 720×1,280, 4.65-inch curved Super AMOLED touchscreen, a very fast five-megapixel camera, and also its slim 8.9mm thickness.

Major changes related to Windows Phone 7.5 include multitasking and a modern browser based on IE9, as well as Twitter integration, visual voicemail, custom ringtones, new speech commands and threads in social networks, e-mails and text messages. When e-mails come from several accounts, they may be funnelled into a unique inbox. They can also be organized in a significantly more flowing conversation view.

Certain phones are receiving firmware updates beyond the 7.5 version. The patches are meant to improve phone performance, activate new features, if they are supported by the hardware, or fix bugs. The updates will be sent to devices on particular carriers in certain countries and on certain phone models.

Nokia’s executive also said that he has been pushing Microsoft to add a positioning framework in the operating system in order to make it work better with Nokia’s mapping platform Navteq that will offer new location-based services.

There are not many details known about the new version of the Windows Phone, but recent recruiting has brought clues about Microsoft bringing desktop elements to the operating system. This way, developers could write applications that would run on Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 as well, having only the screen size and some inherent details affecting the way it is used.

Technical specifications also include a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, a 3.6-inch, 800×480 touchscreen and five-megapixel camera provided with autofocus. The phone will have 8GB of storage onboard and will be able to share media over local networks through DLNA. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi radios are also present. The device supports HSPA 3G on either 850/1900MHz or 900/2100MHz bands and also on quad-band 850/900/1800/1900MHz GSM.

The phone will cost €299(equivalent of $420) in European countries without a contract. It will ship just in time for the holidays in two colors, dark blue and white. It is not sure that the phone will arrive in North America, although the presence of the 850MHz and 1900MHz bands may hint it could come to carriers like AT&T, Bell, Rogers or Telus in Canada. It is known that Rogers is the only carrier to pick up smartphones from Acer in North America.

The Lumia 800, also known as Sea Ray, was very recently unveiled by Nokia. Based on a Snapdragon 1.4GHz single-core processor, it sports a 3.7-inch AMOLED display as well as an eight-megapixel Carl Zeiss camera. The phone is packaged with 25GB of free cloud storage on the online SkyDrive of Microsoft.

Giving away phones to developers is a part of the “Smarter Way to App” campaign of the company, launched last month. Both Microsoft and Nokia intend to attract about 100,000 developers until June, by hosting one thousand joint events. They include hackathons, code camps and other hands-on affairs. The supreme goal is to make Windows Phone appear more attractive to users by decreasing the gap in available applications when compared to Apple iOS and Android devices.