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As expected, HTC has unleashed a slew of Android smartphones here at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and I have to admit they're looking really good.

High Tech Computer (HTC), the world's biggest maker of Windows Mobile and Google Android OS smartphones, is working on technologies for applications used in handsets and application stores and plans to put this software ...

And hopefully not the Bugs of the Nexus Ones.

So why did Google wait all this time to implement multi-touch when its devices have been capable of it since the G1? With Apple and Google now fighting, all bets are apparently off.

Despite the introduction of the iPad and the harsh words of Apple CEO Steve Jobs, netbooks will continue to thrive, say analysts and commentators, who cite the tablet's missing features and relatively high price.

Dan Lyons emails from the iPad unveiling: "I haven't been this let down since Snooki hooked up with The Situation."

After months of rampant speculation, Apple Wednesday announced a touchscreen tablet computer for consumers who want to take their movies, TV shows, music, games and reading with them, be it around the house or on the go.

Apple Inc. rocketed to its most profitable quarter ever over the holidays, as huge sales of the iPhone — and a new way the company accounts for the device — led to a nearly 50 percent jump in net income.

The ultimate hacker phone, the Nokia N900 is the truest expression of Linux—the OS and the philosophy—that you'll find on mobile this year. It's a great niche gadget. But the idea that free, open-source solutions will sweep the mobile world is just as doomed in the U.S. as the idea of popular, open-source desktop PCs—in this case, because mobile networks don't welcome the unexpected, and they don't welcome geeks.