Sprint Nextel today unveiled Certified Pre-owned Device Program, offering refurbished mobile devices at lower prices.

The Dell Venue Pro cell phone with Windows Phone 7 OS and T-Mobile service will be available in the USA this holiday season. It has a 4.1” WVGA AMOLED multi-touch display, and a portrait QWERTY keyboard. Source.

T-Mobile USA has  announced the HTC HD7 Windows Phone 7 – based cell phone with a 4.3-inch touch display. The HTC HD7 is expected to be available in mid-November. There’s no word on price. Source.

The Samsung Focus Windows Phone 7 – based cell phone will be available on November 8 for $199.99 on AT&T. The Samsung Focus has a Super AMOLED touchscreen and is 9.9 mm thin. Source.

AT&T has launched the LG Quantum, a Windows Phone 7 – based cell phone with a slide out keyboard, and it is priced at $199. Source.

HTC Surround Windows Phone 7-based cell phone was launched today via AT&T. It’s the first smartphone to include Dolby Mobile and SRS surround sound speakers. It is priced at $199.99. Source.

eBay has announced the availability of the eBay’s app for Windows Phone 7, in conjunction with Microsoft’s international debut of its Windows Phone 7 devices. Source.

Microsoft and their partners launched first Windows Phone 7-based handsets. The phones will start shipping this holiday season, with more arriving next year. Source

Motorola has announced the Motorola Droid Pro, a QWERTY packing Android smartphone. The Droid Pro will be available on Verizon in the US initially. Source

Mitel is now offering BlackBerry smartphones as part of the Mitel Mobile service for U.S. based corporate customers through Mitel NetSolutions. Companies can choose from the BlackBerry Curve 8530 or BlackBerry Bold 9650 smartphones. Mitel will also offer BlackBerry Enterprise Server licenses. Mitel Mobile offers voice and high-speed data services to corporate customers and with [...]

Chinese mobile phone maker ZTE is expanding into the US market by launching its Salute handset on Verizon’s network. The deal is the first mobile agreement ZTE has made with a top US wireless carrier.ZTE is also said to be in talks with other US mobile operators, including Sprint and T-Mobile to sell its devices.According [...]

Verizon and Motorola have unveiled the DROID X smartphone, featuring a 4.3-inch display and Android 2.1 operating system. The Motorola DrDroid X includes a 1GHz CPU, an 8-megapixel camera, and 3G mobile hotspot capabilities for up to 5 devices. According to the press relase, DROID X will get Android 2.2 and Adobe Flash Player 10.1 [...]

Apple has released the iPhone 4, the latest version of the company’s popular smartphone. The new iPhone includes the new iOS 4 operating system with multitasking support, a 3.5″ Multi-Touch display at 960-by-640 pixels, support for UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA (850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz), GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz), and 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, Assisted GPS, a 5MP [...]

Sprint has announced 4G Mobile Broadband Connection packages for small businesses. Starting at $50 per month for small biz customers, the 4G connectivity is “up to 10 time faster than 3G”, allowing faster web browsing, faster downloads, and smoother media streaming.

Microsoft and Nokia have launched Microsoft Communicator Mobile for Nokia, a mobile collaboration application for Symbian OS-based Nokia E-series smartphones. Communicator Mobile app enables users to see their colleagues’ availability and communicate with them using instant messaging, e-mail, texting, and making a phone call.

Research In Motion (RIM) has announced the BlackBerry Bold 9650 and BlackBerry Pearl 3G smartphones. The Bold 9650 premium-class smartphone supports 3G (EVDO) networks in North America and (HSPA/UMTS) abroad and has a full-QWERTY keyboard, a 2.44-inch display, and built-in Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g. On the other side, the Pearl 3G is “the smallest BlackBerry smartphone [...]

Ad-ology Research has announced thet their popular Marketing Forecast app is now available for Android OS-powered mobile devices. Marketing Forecast is a free application providing industry research, news and trends for advertisers and marketers. The latest version includes a new small business section, social media sharing functions and more content for all marketers.

Toktumi, a small business phone services provider, has announced that the VoIP-enabled version of its calling app Line2, Version 2.0, has been approved by Apple and is now available for download on iTunes. The Line2, which adds a second number to the iPhone, is now “the first iPhone calling app that works over 3G, Wi-Fi, [...]

The Blackberry smartphone maker Research In Motion (RIM) has announced the BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express (BESX), a free version of BES. BES Express is aimed at small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). It provides BlackBerry email, calendar, contacts, notes and tasks syncing services and basic BES security.

Google has released Google Voice app for iPhone OS 3.0 and higher and Palm Web OS devices. Google Voice mobile web app lets iPhone and Palm Web users access a streamlined version of the Google Voice inbox, as well as display user’s Google Voice number as the outbound caller ID, send and receive free SMS [...]