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Apple's latest iPhone sets the smartphone bar for at least another year.

Apple's newly released iPhone 4S, labeled to be a flop phone by many when it came out last week, has already become a huge success among customers, even before it went on sale in stores across the globe Friday, with many of them buying it as a tribute to Steve Jobs.

Mobile handset maker Sony Ericsson said on Friday it would in future focus entirely on the fast-growing smartphone market as it posted in-line quarterly profits, making no reference to a report electronics giant Sony would take full ownership.

Samsung's Galaxy S2 and Motorola Droid Bionic are two of the most talked-about smartphones right now apart from the iPhone4S. They are both Android devices from Samsung and Motorola, which are offering blazing performance at the hand of dual-core processing power. At the same time there still could be a thing or two that would make you choose one over the other.

Apple Inc's new iPhone went on sale in stores across the globe on Friday, with fans snapping up the final gadget unveiled during Steve Jobs' lifetime, many buying the phone as a tribute to the former Apple boss.

Apple Inc.'s iPhone 4S will be hitting the stores Friday, but iPhone 5 remained a mystery after all. Analysts are anticipating Apple to release a 4G LTE iPhone 5 in 2012.

The new iPhone 4S may have disappointed reviewers who expected a newer machine, but the device has already become huge success among customers, even before it went on sale in stores across the globe on Friday, with many of them buying it as a tribute to Steve Jobs

Apple beat Samsung in an Australian court on Thursday, continuing the ban on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 from being sold Down Under.

Apple has won a preliminary sales injunction against Samsung in Australia, to block the Galaxy Tab 10.1 from hitting store.

Apple rolled out its iOS 5 mobile operating system, one week after pancreatic cancer claimed the life of its former CEO and visionary Steve Jobs. The update adds voice recognition software called “Siri”, instant messaging and support for Apple’s iCloud service, although the inclusion of Siri is limited to the iPhone 4S. MacWorld’s Dan Moren says the free update is “ambitious” and that “there’s hardly a part of Apple’s mobile operating system that isn’t altered in some way”. Engadget’s Dante...

Samsung has been denied the chance to sell its newest tablet computer, the Galaxy Tab 10.1, in Australia until a patent dispute with Apple, maker of the iPad 2, is settled following a trial.

In the face of the upcoming competition that Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet will spur, Apple could be prepared to launch a drastically cheaper iPad, the iPad mini, in early 2012.

BlackBerry service to Research in Motion customers in North America was disrupted Wednesday, adding to problems in the troubled developer’s European, Middle East and African markets.

Yes, the iPhone 4S was just not the brightest moment for Apple, but what has turned out eventually is all those, who predicted an epic fail, were forced to shut their mouth by the record breaking pre-order sales of the new iPhone.

If Apple truly is “insanely great” as co-founder Steve Jobs would have it, the availability of iOS 5 could be his true will and testament. It's a gigantic effort to seal loyalties of as many as 250 million global customers who will upgrade their current products, then set the stage for the roll-out of iPhone 4S, prospective iPhone 5, iPads and more.

Millions of BlackBerry users around the world were left without text communication services for a third day on Wednesday as Research in Motion struggled to fix what it said was a switching failure in its private network.

An Australian court will hand down its judgment on Thursday on Apple's request to ban the sale of Samsung Electronic's latest tablet computer in Australia.

When Samsung and Google last week decided to delay the unveiling of the Galaxy Nexus Prime smartphone and the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, reports surfaced that it was out for Apple's dead CEO Steve Jobs.

The battle between high-end smartphones is getting hotter by the day, with two most talked-about phones being Samsung Galaxy S2 and Apple iPhone 4S. Both the phones promise blazing performance but there still could be some differences between the two that could influence consumers when it comes to choosing one.

Owners of nearly 12 percent of BlackBerry developer Research in Motion are demanding a shakeup or sale, Toronto activist investor Victor Alboini tells IBTimes.

The huge sales numbers of Apple's iPhone 4S could get a tiny bump from people who want one to remember Steve Jobs by.