CTIA: Mobile showdown in Sin City Featured storiesGoogle's Android work far from finishedSeveral key decisions regarding the mobile OS have yet to be made, and partners and developers are getting a little anxious.CTIA: Phones you may never getThese phones caught our eye at the wireless tradeshow CTIA in Las Vegas.What's new in Windows Mobile 6.1The software giant announces the update to its mobile operating system with a focus on making simple tasks easier to accomplish.Windows Mobile 6.1 upgrade calendarFind out when and where you can get an upgrade to the latest WM6.1.Symbian CEO pitches middle ground between iPhone, AndroidNigel Clifford thinks his company can help connect the world to the Internet, and that developers looking to create mobile applications have 200 million reasons to sign up with him.Announcements, key notes and launchesA joystick for cell phone gamesZeemote earned a fair amount of fans at CTIA Wireless 2008, where the ergonomic controller won the day in a first-person shooter game.Super-easy VoIP calls coming to Java phonesPacket8's MobileTalk expected to bring cheap international calls to Java-based cell phones in about 4-6 weeks.Yahoo unveils a smarter mobile searchDetermined not to let Google get hold of the mobile Web, Yahoo announced the 2.0 version of its OneSearch product--featuring more diverse results and voice-enabled queries.SMS2.0: Texting in technicolorPretty soon, users will be sending SMS messages that go beyond grayscale.Vringo Facebook: Photo caller ID the easy wayGet a sneak peek of a Facebook app that flashes your friends' Facebook profiles whenever they call your BlackBerry or Windows Mobile phone.Bluepulse, MySpace: Better cell phone socializersMySpace Mobile Web and Bluepulse are two social networks that continue to improve for cell phone users.Symbian CEO takes aim at unconnected generationNigel Clifford's riding high on the current Net-savvy generation, but thinks there's quite a future for bringing the world's unconnected population onto the Internet through mobile phones.Smart phones will soon turn computing on its headThe combination of a thirst for the Internet and a mobile society has the smartphone industry positioned to define the next generation of computing.LiMo Foundation ready with mobile Linux OSThe nonprofit industry consortium has delivered its first release of a mobile Linux operating system, but the goal of reducing fragmentation might not arrive until next year--at least from LiMo.CTIA: A platform for changing the subjectThis year it seems like some companies are working extra hard to clear the air before they hit the Las Vegas show floor.Trade show fatigue?Since it comes after two bigger trade shows, some analysts are suggesting that CTIA may be a quiet event for cell phones.CTIA previewCTIA always marks the end of a busy trade-show season for cell phones. Here's what to expect.CTIA in pictures Doubling down on wireless at CTIAThe semiannual wireless show features a lineup of new phones, services, and appearances by top industry executives.
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