Ben Patterson – We’ve already got the Captivate for AT&T, the Epic 4G for Sprint, and the Vibrant for T-Mobile — all three of which come armed with eye-popping 4-inch displays, slim profiles, speedy 1GHz processors, and five-megapixel cameras — and now Samsung’s set to finish its lap of the four big U.S. carriers with the Fascinate, due in the coming weeks for Verizon Wireless.

AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile control 90 percent of the wireless market, making it hard for smaller companies to compete, according to government report.

Appolicious – Bloggers and social networkers will be pleased with the latest and greatest from the Android Market. StumbleUpon has launched an Android app, along with Trillian, while Tweetdeck continues to test its beta app. Here are the week‘s top Android apps.

Apple is holding a music-themed event next Wednesday, prompting speculation that the company may unveil a snazzier line of iPods or revamp its long-neglected Apple TV project.

Ben Patterson – Forty bucks a month for unlimited 3G data that you can share over Wi-Fi via the MiFi wireless hotspot? Where do I sign up — and how long before other carriers follow suit?

Smartphones will make up over half of Asian handset sales by 2015, with estimated 477 million units to be sold, according to an industry report.

Investor’s Business Daily – Mobile phone giant Nokia and chipmaker Intel (NMS:INTC) said developers are embracing their plans to create a new cell phone operating system called MeeGo. Nokia hopes MeeGo will help it in its battle vs. Apple‘s (NMS:AAPL) iPhone and Google‘s (NMS:GOOG) Android. Nokia‘s MeeGo is a merger of Nokia‘s Linux Maemo software platform with Intel’s Moblin, which is also based on Linux open-source software. Nokia fell 1.7% to 8.76. Intel slid 1.6% to 18.41.

Reuters – Top mobile phone maker Nokia and chip maker Intel said on Tuesday their software joint venture had got off to a solid start.

Apple has applied for a technology patent that would detect unauthorized iPhone usage and remotely wipe sensitive data to those devices.

AFP – Smartphones will make up over half of Asian mobile phone sales by 2015, with 477 million units likely to be sold, an industry report said Monday.