ST Microelectronics, a company that provides hardware components, has recently been found to have supplied HTC with microphone components for their upcoming flagship, the HTC One, that were supposed to be exclusively for Nokia.

A district court in Amsterdam has agreed that The One might be using Nokia-exclusive microphone technology, and has granted Nokia a preliminary injunction. Apparently, the dual membrane microphone setup seen in the One was manufactured using technology solely meant for Nokia phones. This implies a direct breach of an NDA signed by ST  between Nokia and themselves.

This can only spell disaster for HTC. The already delayed One may face further sales problems if this is found to be true. A recent profits analysis shows …

A recent job posting on LinkedIn has sparked rumours about whether Nokia, purveyor of the Lumia range of Windows Phones, was poised to explore making an Android phone. Although quite a few blogs picked up on the story, it was quickly debunked by Nokia, stating that the job listing was in reference to their Here mapping solutions, which are headed to Android.

The persistence of the Nokia-Android rumours is a testament to the number of people who crave the flexibility and benefits of the Android OS combined with the well-respected design and construction of Nokia hardware. However, this is wishful thinking; it makes little business sense for Nokia to adopt Android given its current position, and given the cutthroat …

Got an Android phone, but also conscious of the environment? Well, Vodafone appears to be of the belief that Android phones (in general) are less eco friendly than Nokia and BlackBerries. Well, that’s in reference to Vodafone’s Eco Rating scores, which were picked up by one our readers.

Vodafone have been doing something quite interesting behind the scenes. They’ve been ranking their phones on an ‘Eco Friendly’ level through a few different means. All the information tested comes directly from the manufacturer, too.

The phones get ranked by their ‘Green Design,’ ‘Mobile phone life cycle’ and ‘company performance.’ But what do they mean?

Green Design: Does the phone include special features to improve its environmental friendliness?
Mobile phone life cycle:…

Over the weekend, I sat down with Ruslan Kogan, the founder and owner of Kogan products. Kogan has embraced the Android OS, and made many Android fans happy with his insanely cheap prices on not only his own products, but also other branded products, such as Samsung and ASUS. With an ever-evolving Android ecosystem, I thought it was necessary to conduct this interview to gather some opinions from the electronics giant, and see where Kogan is heading with Android in the future.

J.S: How does Kogan manage such cheap prices?

R.K: Kogan has the best prices in the world because we’re nobody’s bitch. You see, most retailers will have an exclusive relationship with a single distributor. This means …

We know that the entire tech world these days is just a patenting battlefield of sorts. However, just like in real war, there is always the little and big guy. These days, especially in the Android world, we see companies like HTC, Samsung and LG suing or being sued for one reason or another. So when a manufacturer like Nokia, who has just recorded the lowest market share and profit share in years, begins suing others — we take note!

At the current time, Nokia has 40+ companies with licensing to use one or more of their patents — from what we know, HTC, Viewsonic and RIM were not amongst those 40 businesses and now Nokia has noted in a …

Don’t you love it when an independent analysis company chooses an Android manufacturer as the number one Smartphone manufacturer in the world! I sure know I do – and it just so happens that Samsung has been named the number one smartphone manufacturer for the first quarter of this year!

A huge plummet from Nokia, the ex-top manufacturer. The big news, however, is that Apple  didn’t take the number one spot. But does that really say a lot, if we look at the facts?

Apple only has one mobile product – and these statistics only relate to mobiles, not tablets. So when looking at a statistic like this — Apple has sold 35.1 million mobile devices and Samsung has sold …