Meet the man who would make BlackBerry apps cool.

Alec Saunders,
vice president of developer relations.

     Alec Saunders has accomplished the seemingly impossible and gotten developers interested in RIM's new mobile operating system, which is set to be unveiled this week.

Micromax A54 Smarty 3.5

     In 2012, almost all the India based handset vendors including Micromax were quite busy in launching a spree of handsets into the market at different price points.

Mozilla's Firefox OS to Bear Smartphone Fruit in 2013

Mozilla announced that its project to build a smartphone operating system (formerly known as “Boot to Gecko”) based on Web standards is now known as Firefox OS for mobile devices and it will be on devices in 2013.

     Mozilla said the Firefox phone is the real deal and should start hitting the scene in 2013. Mozilla announced a clear and distinct increase in momentum behind its plans to launch an open mobile ecosystem based on HTML5, including new commitments from device manufacturers and carriers to support the strategy and deliver devices powered by an open Web-based OS.

Advantage Apple: iPhone users love to use their phones

     When it comes to people actually using their devices, there's no doubt at all that Apple [AAPL] is winning the smartphone wars -- just look at the evidence, for app sales, Web browsing, OS upgrades and more, the iPhone is King of the Hill.