Google is reportedly moving to more direct sales of its Android smartphones and tablets in an apparent move to wrest …
Apple dominates other smartphone vendors in consumer satisfaction
The latest American Customer Satisfaction Index, which is published quarterly by the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and …
Lenovo building industrial centre to develop tablets, smartphones
Chinese PC maker Lenovo plans to invest more than 5 billion yuan (US$796 million) to build facilities for the development …
Samsung overtakes Apple in smartphone market, both continue to dominate
Samsung and Apple again traded places at the top of the smartphone market as Samsung came out on top in …
LG to launch cloud for sharing content across smartphones, TVs and PCs
LG Electronics will launch a beta of its LG Cloud service today, that will allow users to access content across …
Smartphone camera face-off: 7 phones put to the test
One of the biggest trends in smartphones right now is toward models equipped with powerful, high-end cameras. Phone manufacturers are no longer …
Huawei: Touch-free smartphones and infinite cloud storage are on the way
Huawei Technologies is aiming to bring touch-free smartphones and more inexpensive cloud storage to users, as the company boosts its …
Mobile malware incidents on rise, says smartphone survey
The cost-saving culture of bring-your-own-device smartphones is tempting enterprises into taking risks they would not contemplate for conventional computing devices, …
Paying with smartphones to outpace credit cards by 2020, experts say
More than two-thirds of technology insiders believe that paying with smartphones will overtake cash and credit card payments by 2020, …
Microsoft Office Mobile arrives on Nokia Belle smartphones in the region
Nokia today announced the local availability of Office Mobile apps from Microsoft – including Word mobile, PowerPoint mobile and Excel …
Samsung to show ‘the next Galaxy’ smartphone on May 3
Samsung Electronics is expected to show the next flagship Galaxy smartphone at an event in London on May 3. The …
Kingston launches wireless portable storage device for smartphones, tablets
Kingston Digital Europe yesterday launched in the UAE a wireless portable storage device that allows user to carry and share …
New app lets smartphone users stream content from computer
A new application provides access to a user’s music, photo and video computer libraries from a Motorola RAZR smartphone anywhere …
Smartphone sales grew 47% in Q4 2011
Worldwide smartphone sales to end users soared to 149 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011, a 47.3% increase …
Price versus brand takes focus in the battle for smartphone supremacy
Established vendors such as HTC, Sony and LG Electronics want to set their smartphones apart from less expensive devices from …
Huawei releases quad-core smartphone with its own processor
Huawei has launched the Ascend D Quad family, which has an in-house developed quad-core processor, as the Chinese network equipment …
Orange to release Intel-based Santa Clara smartphone
Mobile operator Orange has joined the companies backing Intel’s move into smartphones, and will start to ship the Android-based “Santa …
Smartphone shipments surpassed PCs for first time in 2011
Smartphone shipments overtook personal computers – including tablets, laptops, netbooks and desktops – for the first time in 2011, according …
ARM’s first 64-bit processors will target servers, smartphones
ARM will announce its first 64-bit processors later this year for servers and high-end smartphones, and is also taking steps …
Apple overtakes Samsung in smartphone shipments: Research
Apple overtook Samsung again in smartphone shipments during the last quarter of 2011, data from leading mobile analyst firm Juniper Research …