This week was packed with news on the mobile front, so it was easy to miss a few stories here and there. Here’s some of the other stuff that happened in the wide world of wireless for the week of August 15, 2011: Vodafone’s very own budget-friendly Facebook Phone, the Vodafone 555 , is now on sale. ?62.50 is all it will take to get the non-touchscreen featurephone in your fingertips. [via SlashGear ] A spec sheet and screenshots of the Sony Ericsson Nozumi leaked this week

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Word ’round the campfire is, HP may be prepping to spin off its PC business. Though Hewlett-Packard is the world’s largest computer company, desktops and laptops are a relatively low profit margin business. Obviously, there’s no confirmation yet that such a split will happen, but with the recent focus on tablets and smartphones , and CEO Leo Apotheker’s own admission that he’d like to expand into software and services , the move would make sense. According to Bloomberg the announcement could come as soon as today, during the company’s quarterly earnings call, where it’s also expected to reveal a $10 billion purchase of software company Autonomy Corp.

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