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California-based tech giant, Apple Inc., received an overwhelming response from all around the world for the iPhone 4S. However, a host of Android-powered phones, sporting quad-core, 1.2GHz and 1.5GHz chipsets could spoil the Cupertino giant's party.

Apple's best ever product launch could wipe away the letdown many expressed at not having a radically redesigned iPhone 5.

New commercial asks players to construct digital palace for Comedienne Kristen Schaal

Motorola taking aim at BlackBerry with device encryption and remote wipe capable software.

The launch of Samsung Nexus Prime, the latest smartphone based on Google's new version of the Android operating system Ice Cream Sandwich, will be delayed reportedly to pay respect to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who passed away last week on Oct. 5.

While Samsung is still rolling out its Galaxy S2 in the U.S., details of the Galaxy S3 has been leaked to Phandroid, which received a snapshot of a slide allegedly within an internal presentation on smartphone evolution to carrier and retail representatives.

If you count the negatives, there are a lot of reasons why Apple iPhone 4S would look unappealing. The geeks have raised many complaints about the latest iteration of Apple iPhone.

On Oct. 7, Sprint held a press conference for the new Apple iPhone 4S and for the company's plans for its own 4G network, which it has planned to roll out in the middle of the next year.

Considering that one big rival of the iPhone 4S will be the Motorola Droid Bionic, it will be interesting to have a comparison of the features of the two competitors

Following the introduction of the iPhone 4S by Apple many consumers were who were mostly disappointed were asking the question of when the iPhone 5 can be really expected.

Apple has received more than a million preorders for the iPhone 4S in a single day, toppling the previous record of 600,000 set by the iPhone 4 last year, the company says.

You spend hours playing it on your smartphone, why not play Angry Birds in real life? That's what UNC Asheville goalkeeper Lassi Hurskainen and his teammates did while filming a video of Angry Birds-inspired soccer trick shots.

The release of the iPhone 4s smartphone by Apple (AAPL) will likely juice the shares of AT&T's (T) by attracting hundreds of thousands of younger adult subscribers to AT&T's stable. Those extra subscribers should also help T improve its network quicker -- something the company needs to do.

So it wasn't the highly-anticipated iPhone 5 so many wanted to see that Apple finally unveiled at its Let's talk iPhone event. Instead, it was the iPhone 4S, a charged-up version of the company's popular iPhone 4 that was unveiled and launched for sale in pre-orders last week. But the new iPhone 4S is still a big hit, as Apple says more than one million people ordered the new iPhone 4S in the first 24 hours the smartphone was put on sale.

The iPhone 4S preorders topped one million in a single day, breaking the company's single-day sales record held by the iPhone 4. The surging demand for the 4S is seen as a tribute to Steve Jobs, whose death immediately followed the device's release.

Apple Inc.'s next-generation iPhone 4S is fast becoming the people's favorite smartphone. Apple, AT&T and Verizon have exhausted their pre-order supplies of the iPhone 4S, which will begin delivery on Oct. 14, according to media reports.

Nexus Prime could feature next generation technology from Google and Samsung and iPhone 4S is the main target.

Pre-orders for the newly released iPhone 4S began on Friday. Have you placed your order yet?

Upgrades made to the iPhone 4 into the iPhone 4S

Apple's newly released iPhone 4S (the 16GB version) has reportedly been completely sold out on Apple's online store, at BestBuy and with service providers AT&T, Sprint and Verizon. What that means is that if you still want to boast of having the new iPhone on the actual day of the launch, you will either have to shell out more money and order the 32GB or the 64GB version or queue up in front of Apple stores across the country.

Wireless carriers in the U.S., who are earning as much as 20 cents for sending and another 20 cents for receiving a text message, are worried that this profitable source of revenue will no longer be available to them, once Apple's new instant messaging application, iMessage, is released on Wednesday.