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Much of the CrunchGear/MobileCrunch crew has been hauled out to New York City for TechCrunch Disrupt this week — and whatd’ya know: Microsoft just so happens to have a big ol’ Windows Phone 7 announcement in NYC planned for tomorrow. . . . → Read More: Ballmer: Windows Phone “Mango” Update To Have “Over 500 New Features”

INQ, one of the first partners to add the Facebook layer to its Cloud Touch phone has announced today that it will be using the Foursquare location layer to visualize location content for its users. The Foursquare INQ phone will have all of the requisite Foursquare features, including checkins, places nearby, tips, to do, all powered by the FourSquare API. “Playing with this phone,” said Foursquare “It feels pretty amazing to see what INQ has done with its API. . . . → Read More: Foursquare To Power INQ Mobile’s Location Based Services

Things have never been so bleak for the world’s largest handset maker. Fresh off of rumors that Nokia would be selling off its handset division to Microsoft, new numbers from Gartner reveal that Nokia’s current market share is the lowest its been since 1997, nearly 14 years ago . . . → Read More: Nokia Sees Lowest Market Share In 14 Years: Gartner

Shockingly enough, Apple isn’t down with Amazon’s claim that the term “app store” is generic, and recently denied such a claim during the ongoing tiff between the two application providers. . . . → Read More: Apple Strikes Back in Amazon “App Store” Tiff

Hot on the heels of last week’s announcement of Facebook Inside Xperia, the deepest Facebook integration we’ve seen to date on a mobile device, it’s also looking like the gaming-centric Sony Ericsson Xperia Play and the Xperia Arc smartphone will be receiving updates to Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread next week in the UK, according to Recombu . This update, assuming all goes to plan, will mark the first non-Nexus phones to see the likes of 2.3.3. Gingerbread. . . . → Read More: Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread Coming To Xperia Play, Arc Next Week

Gartner has just released some numbers describing the worldwide mobile market, and while these numbers haven’t been confirmed by the companies concerned, they still provide a valuable estimate of how things are going out there. Total handset sales grew nearly 20% over the same period last year, with smartphone sales nearly doubling. Android long ago passed up Symbian, and iOS showed huge sales gains but modest market share gains, being countered by Android’s explosive growth . . . → Read More: 1.6 Million Windows Phone 7 Handsets Were Sold Last Quarter

NFC payments have already become somewhat of the norm over in Japan, but here in the States, near field communication technology hasn’t quite taken off yet. However, that’s not to say that U.S . . . → Read More: MasterCard Study: Youngsters Will Be The Catalyst Of Mobile Payment Adoption

We’ve known for a while now that AT&T was preppin’ to launch their very own version of the HD7S — they said as much back in March . While they were glad to talk up the HD7S’ advantages over its near-twin, the T-Mobile HD7 (such as the upgrade from a 4.3″ LCD to a 4.3″ Super LCD and.. . . . → Read More: AT&T To Launch HTC HD7S On June 5th

We’re not usually ones to believe images that are essentially one big JPEG artifact — but hey, we’re talking about a security update here. For Windows Phone 7, no less . . . → Read More: Sprint HTC Arrive To Get Security Update On May 24th?

You know the drill: another few weeks have passed, so it’s time for yet another batch of cities to start swimmin’ in Verizon’s sweet, sweet LTE radio waves. Is your hometown one of the new regions? Probably not — but maybe! Today’s new additions: Mobile and Montgomery, Alabama Greater Fairfield and New Haven, Connecticut Gainesville, Pensacola and Tallahassee, Florida Fayetteville-Lumberton, North Carolina Bryan-College Station and Temple-Killeen, Texas The Full List (As of 5/19/2011): Mobile Ala. . . . → Read More: Verizon Fires Up Their 4G Network In 9 New Cities