Fifty-four percent of Verizon's Android and BlackBerry users plan to switch to the iPhone when it becomes available on Feb. 10, according to a survey by United Sample Inc.
Nokia's widely speculated transition to a new operating system would benefit rival Research In Motion as it provides an opportunity to expand in international markets.
Mobile carriers risk an end of profit within four years amid increased smartphone usage, rising investment costs and falling revenue per unit of data, says a new study.
Strong demand from emerging markets and from smartphone users helped cellphone operators Vodafone and TeliaSonera lift sales last year and give cause for confident outlooks for 2011.
AT&T is set to unveil a new mobile hotspot application that lets smartphone customers tether multiple devices via Wi-Fi connection. The feature will first be available on February 13 to select smartphone customers, starting with the launch of HTC Inspire 4G, the company said.
In the coming days, 4G smartphones are expected to flood the market. But with all the excitement of getting the latest and greatest tech, it sometimes pays to think about the pros and cons.
The search company unveils a new tablet focused operating system and a browser-based version of the Android market place.
Samsung, whose Galaxy S smartphones made a statement with sales of over 10 million around the world, has released a teaser video showing the next generation Samsung Galaxy S2 expected to be unveiled at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2011.
Cisco estimates mobile traffic is headed upward and will be measured in exabytes per month.
The Optimus 3D, the first 3D-equipped phone, will be unveiled at this years Mobile World Congress, LG says.
The new Android version 3.0, known as Honeycomb, is likely to gain foothold in the tablet market pretty soon.
British chip designer ARM Holdings posted a higher quarterly and full-year profit, helped by the growth in licensing and royalty revenue and it expects dollar revenue for 2011 to be at least in line with market expectations.
LG Electronics <066570.KS> plans to launch a swipe payment system for product and service retailers in Europe next year, which would allow consumers to make payments at the check-out using their smartphones.
Egypt is becoming a test case for the Internet going dark, with only one of its main service providers operating. But the lack of communications isn't stopping the protests.
A Canalys report finds that Android overtook Nokia's Sybian operating system for the first time last year, topping offerings from Nokia and Apple.
Google's Android dethroned Nokia's Symbian as the most popular smartphone platform in the last quarter of 2010, ending a reign that began with the birth of the industry 10 years ago.
India rejected on Monday Research In Motion's offer to allow it only partial access to its BlackBerry data services as neighboring Pakistan also moved to restrict the popular smartphone's services.
Google's Android dethroned Nokia's Symbian as the most popular smartphone platform in the last quarter of 2010, ending a reign that began with the birth of the industry 10 years ago.
Japan's Toshiba Corp more than doubled its quarterly operating profit on booming sales of NAND flash memory chips and robust demand for LCD panels used in smartphones and tablets.
Toshiba Corp posted 37.46 billion yen ($456.3 million) in operating profit for October-December, compared with 14.49 billion yen in the same period the previous year, on healthy sales of NAND flash memory used in smartphones and tablet computers.
Japan's Toshiba Corp's quarterly profit more than doubled, driven by a boom in sales of NAND flash memory chips and liquid-crystal displays used in tablets and smartphones but it stuck with its full-year outlook.
Our society – actually, the entire planet – has been inundated with these pesky little technological miracles, and they have become a nuisance.
