Nokia’s social networking smartphone will be available in the UK during the third quarter of this year, with an estimated retail price of 370 euros. The handset is powered by Symbian 3, which introduces several major advances, including support for gestures such multi-touch, flick scrolling and pinch-to-zoom.

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IT engineers from Bangalore’s IISc and four IITs have come up with a laptop at the cost of 35 dollars.

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The global handset market was up by 13% in Q2 this year to 308 million shipments, after sales were bolstered by particularly successful quarters from HTC and Apple. The growth sees the market on the road to recovery, with around 1.3 billion units shipped by the end of the year, according to analyst firm CCS Insight.

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Verizon Wireless and Motorola today announced that DROID 2 by Motorola will be available for pre-sale on August 11. Hitting all the right keys, DROID 2 is a feature-packed device that helps manage work and social life with an enhanced QWERTY keyboard, ultra high-speed Web browsing, 3G Mobile HotSpot capabilities, full push corporate e-mail, intuitive social messaging and Adobe Flash Player 10.1 for access to the full web – all built on Android 2.2.

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The new BlackBerry Torch 9800 – Everything you want with the one thing you need. AT&T and BlackBerry have teamed up to evolve the smartphone. The Torch features the world premier BlackBerry in slider form factor with touch screen plus QWERTY keyboard and optical trackpad. BlackBerry 6 OS includes all-new browser featuring tabbed browsing for access to multiple web pages at the same time and pinch-to-zoom capability

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This video demonstration using tawkon shows how the Death Grip increases radiation levels on several phones including the iPhone 4, BlackBerry 9700 and Android Nexus One. As you can see, the Death Grip problem is clearly not exclusive to the iPhone, and not only affects reception / call drops – but radiation levels too.

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AT&T and Sony Ericsson today announced a dynamic multimedia experience with the Android based Xperia X10, available August 15. The Xperia X10 introduces Sony Ericsson’s unique and entertainment-driven Xperia platform to U.S. customers in a cutting-edge, beautiful and fun package.

The Xperia X10 comes fully loaded with a 4-inch crystal clear touch display, superfast 1GHz Snapdragon processor and a GPS. The smartphone also features an 8.1 megapixel camera with smile detection, face recognition, autofocus and LED flash. The device comes with 8 GB of on-board memory and a 2 GB in-box memory card, with expandable memory up to 32 GB.

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The smartphone market grew 50% in Q2 driven by manufacturers of Android handsets, according to global figures from analyst IDC. Smartphone manufacturers shipped 63 million handsets in the second quarter of 2010, compared with 42 million units a year earlier. Shipments in the first half of the year were up by 54% to 118.3 million units.

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