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Samsung Hercules, an upgraded Galaxy S II is coming to T-Mobile this September to join the smartphone battle, a potential rival of iPhone 5.

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion said on Thursday it has added more than one million subscribers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa in less than three weeks.

Games are wildly popular on smartphones like Google's Android, Apple's iPhone, and to a lesser extent RIM's Blackberry.

Android, Apple, and RIM represent 90 percent of the US smartphone market share. What do people use their smartphones for?

Games remain the king of mobile apps, according to recent Nielsen research. The data shows that not only are games the most used app over the past 30 days, but also that users are more willing to pay for games than any other apps.

Apple Inc. might release another version of iPad as its iPad 2 is facing heavy competition from other tablet makers. But the sales of their existing iPad isn't slowing down and Apple doesn't seem to be intimidated by the onslaught of Android.

A recent report from ComScore cited some interesting figures detailing how Apple's iPhone and Android devices are beating the BlackBerry.

comScore has the latest stats for the fierce smartphone OS war. Google's Android is still number one and Apple is still improving. RIM's Blackberry, however, is hurting badly.

Google's Android phones continued its march to dominance. For the three months ended May 2011, it has 38 percent of the US smartphone market share, up from 33 percent in February 2011.

AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) announced that it will finally support Research In Motion Ltd.'s (NASDAQ: RIMM) BlackBerry Bridge for the PlayBook. While access to information of a BlackBerry will come at no extra cost, AT&T plans to charge $20 per month for tethering to access web content.

Apple could launch an unlocked version of iPhone 4S with prepaid voice offering.

Fall is approaching and if rumors are true we can expect to see Apple's next generation tablet the iPad 3 hitting stores in September. The iPads have dominated the tablet scene since its release in April 2010 by owning 82% of the US market. Apple's iPad 3 release is expected to strengthen that number though a batch of next generation competing tablets plans to reverse that trend.

iPhone 5, Apple’s next generation iphone is already facing a lot of competition from the bunch of Android powered smartphones.

As Samsung Galaxy S2 is gaining credibility and good reviews in other parts of the world, the US market is still waiting for its arrival.

Apple iPad 2, the king of the current tablet war, has choked its upcoming competitor Amazon tablets by blockading them even before the battle has begun.

After a delay of more than two months, AT&T Inc has agreed to support BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd's Bridge application, which lets BlackBerry users see email and other services on RIM's PlayBook tablet without incurring additional charges.

The BlackBerry, once ubiquitous in business, faces deep challenges in that market as more companies allow employees to pick their own smartphones and add third-party security applications.

A number of RIM employees are taking to the web, via anonymous letters, to complain about the company's recent struggles.

A consortium consisting of Apple Inc. (AAPL), EMC Corp. (EMC), Ericsson, Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), Research In Motion (RIM) and Sony Corp. (SNE) paid $4.5 billion for the patent portfolio of Bankrupt Canadian telecom group Nortel Networks Corp.

A consortium including Apple Inc, EMC Corp, Ericsson and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion bought bankrupt telecommunications gear maker Nortel Networks Corp's remaining patent portfolio for $4.5 billion, in an auction that began early this week.

A Senior RIM exec has lost confidence in the company and posted a litany of complaints against the company.