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 October 17, 2011: The HTC Rezound (codenamed the Vigor) started showing up in Cellebrite systems, just another indicator of its impending arrival — and likely name. [ Droid-Life ] AT&T’s current lineup of Windows Phones, such as the Samsung Focus , LG Quantum and HTC Surround, are now showing up as EOL — End-of-life — likely in preparation for the trio of incoming devices we saw earlier this week. [ WMPowerUser ] Cricket added another ZTE feature phone to its lineup this week, called the Memo (shown above).

According to Harry Belafonte’s publicist, the 84-year-old was not dozing off while waiting for his TV interview. Rather, “His earpiece wasn’t working, so he decided to take the the time to meditate before the rest of his Day-O.” ” Harry Belafonte meditating, not sleeping, during morning interview, says rep ” (EW)

You know that Star Wars is one of the most profitable movie franchises to date – just check out the kind of merchandise that this particular series boasts and look me in the eye, telling me that George Lucas isn’t one of the richer people around. The guy hasn’t milked this particular cash cow dry, with his latest (non-viewable) efforts resulting in the £32.99 R2-D2 Nutcracker . We all know that R2-D2 is one of the hardier droids around, having escaped from many a tight situation without missing a screw.

GM has already done a fair bit of talking about electric vehicles this year, but it’s not done just yet. The company announced this week that it will be producing an all-electric version of its Spark mini-car — to be dubbed the Spark EV — into production, with the first vehicles set to roll out sometime in 2013 (including “limited quantities” in the US). Complete details on the vehicle are otherwise still a bit light, but GM says it will use nanophosphate lithium-ion battery provided by A123 Systems. What’s more, while there’s no word on it going into production, GM has also confirmed that it’s begun development of its next-generation EN-V concept vehicle, and that it will sport a Chevrolet badge this time around

Well that was quick as ever. The always-punctual iPhone Dev Team’s already jailbroken (tethered) iOS 5 , which has only been live a few hours, for the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad, and iPod Touch. iOS 5 has been jailbroken since around the time of the initial beta , but this is confirmation for fresh installers. More??