ZTE has confirmed it’ll be producing a smartphone that uses Mozilla’s HTML5-based Firefox mobile operating system.

The new handset is called the ZTE Open and will launch on the Telefónica network in Spain, Venezuela and Colombia later this year.

Last night the Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced the winners of its inaugural Bluetooth Breakthrough Awards competition.

Winner of the Prototype category - and overall winner, chosen from over 300 submissions - was the Tethercell battery adaptor, a product that enables almost any product using AA batteries to be controlled or monitored via Bluetooth.

Nokia has announced two new Windows Phone devices and two feature phones at Mobile World Congress today.

Both of the Windows Phone smartphones are mid-priced handsets, with initial availability expected within a few weeks.

New figures from messaging threat protection specialists Cloudmark have revealed that text message spammers used more than 350,000 unique SMS spam variants in 2012.

December saw the widest variety, with more than 53,000 different variants received worldwide.

Cellebrite, which already offers mobile phone retailers a content transfer and fault diagnosis tool for smartphones, has announced what it’s describing as “the industry’s first and only Multi-Channel Diagnostics Solution”. It’s designed to improve customer service by offering consumers a variety of options if they believe their handset has developed a fault.

The handheld Cellebrite Touch diagnostic device was originally launched in 2011, enabling retail staff to automatically detect and correct issues by connecting the device to the customer’s phone.