Devices

The T-Mobile/HTC G1 smartphone, the first handset to be based on Google’s Android mobile operating system, carries a Bill-of-Materials (BOM) cost of US$143.89, according to a virtual teardown conducted by iSuppli and published by Cellular News.

Motorola's RAZR device has lost its three-year status as the top-selling US consumer handset according to The NPD Group, giving way to Apple's iPhone 3G.

A new study by research firm iSuppli suggests that the new HTC-manufactured G1 smartphone is 10 percent cheaper to produce than Apple's iPhone 3G, one of the G1's principal competitors.

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.