The Motorola Droid took home three awards from the 2009 Engadget Awards, winning in the category of best gadget, best smartphone, and best GPS. The Droid is one of the first Android smartphone that was a hit with consumers, partly due to the huge marketing campaign with Verizon Wireless. 2009 was a busy year for smartphones with the release of the HTC Hero, the HTC Touch Pro2 and Diamond2, the HTC HD2 internationally, the Droid, webOS-based Palm Pre and Palm Pixi. 2010 is already shaping up to be even more memorable as Windows Phone 7 Series devices may be rolling out by the end of the ...

With Mobile World Congress just around the corner and the expectation for Microsoft to announce Windows Mobile 7, rumors are now circulating that the Redmond, Washington software maker may make previous generations of Windows Mobile--Windows Mobile 6.x--free for developing countries. The move may help Microsoft capture market share and also earn the loyalty of users hooked on Windows Mobile as one of their first OS platforms. By making Windows Mobile 6.x free in developing countries, Microsoft could still capitalize on the newer Windows Mobile 7 and hardware partners could still sell new ...

Google Maps for Windows Mobile has just reached version 4.0, and with it comes Google Buzz. While Google Maps already has "Latitude" which will allow you to see and share your location with friends, the Buzz layer allows you to see the locations of everybody using Buzz along with thier location-aware little messages. You can also make comments on other people's Buzz messages. To download Google Maps 4.0, visit: m.google.com/maps

The largest phone maker in the world has announced Thursday that it has made available its Ovi Maps--Nokia's turn-by-turn GPS navigation solution--free for the company's smartphones. In a bid to try and capture some of the US market--which has thus far been dominated by RIM and newcomer Apple--Nokia's move can be seen as competitive with Google, which has offered free turn-by-turn GPS navigation on Google Maps with Navigation on select Android devices for the US market. Nokia is responding by saying its Ovi Maps service will be in over seventy countries and nearly fifty different languages ...

MobileNavigator has been one of the best GPS turn-by-turn, voice guidance software for the iPhone and now Navigon is bringing the software to Android and Windows Mobile in the US officially. The company has had its MobileNavigator GPS mapping software in other geographic areas, but this should be a welcomed addition for US users. The software will retail for $89, though it's on sale for $69 now through Valentine's Day for Windows Mobile; the Android edition is coming in Spring. The software features Lane Assist, which tells you the lane you need to be in to make a turn, and also Reality ...