HTC Takes Top Smartphone Spot In U.S. According To Q3 Data From Canalys
Samsung blew past Apple and Nokia in the third quarter to become the No. 1 smartphone vendor in the world, but another emerging smartphone vendor…
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Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket, HTC Vivid Landing On AT&T November 6th With 4G LTE
AT&T announced its first two 4G LTE smartphones on Monday, the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket and the HTC Vivid. The Galaxy S II Skyrocket…
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Apple's iPhone To Make Up More Than Half Of Q4 Smartphone Sales Across Top-3 U.S. Carriers
In the third quarter of 2011, Apple offered just two smartphones: the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 3GS. The latter was sold by just one…
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4G Now Counted Among 'Ideal Phone Features' By 75% Of Consumers, Survey Finds
It worked. 4G has been marketed so well by wireless carriers and vendors that people want it even if they don't quite know why. A…
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Samsung Blows Past Apple To Take No. 1 Smartphone Spot In Q3
Following Samsung's third-quarter earnings report on Friday morning, the South Korea-based electronics giant is now confirmed to have passed Apple to become the top smartphone…
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HTC Titan Review
BGR Executive Editor Zach Epstein reviews the HTC Titan, a supersized Windows Phone Mango smartphone headed to AT&T in fall 2011.
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LightSquared Develops New Antenna To Settle GPS Concerns
LightSquared announced on Thursday that, in cooperating with PCTEL, it has developed a new antenna that will help "resolve concerns over high precision GPS receivers."…
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Nokia's Jo Harlow: Windows Phone Is 'Easier, Faster And A Hell Of A Lot More Fun'
Microsoft's Ben Rudolph sat down with Nokia product boss Jo Harlow during the Nokia World conference this week to get her take on the Finnish…
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Android Fragmentation Gets Visualized [Infographic]
There have been six smartphone distribution updates since Android was released: Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread and most recently, Ice Cream Sandwich. One man, Michael…
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Class-Action Suit Filed Against RIM After BlackBerry Outage
BlackBerry users have filed a class-action lawsuit against Research In Motion after the company's massive service outage earlier this month, the Financial Post reported on…
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Apple's Newsstand Causes Surge In Magazine Subscriptions
Apple's Newsstand application, which allows iOS 5 users on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch to subscribe to and purchase magazines, has resulted in a…
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Motorola DROID RAZR Available For Pre-Order From Verizon Tomorrow For $299.99
Verizon Wireless on Wednesday reaffirmed that the Motorola DROID RAZR smartphone will be available for pre-order starting tomorrow, October 27th. The hotly anticipated smartphone revives the…
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Sprint Issues Security Fix For HTC Phones
Sprint on Tuesday confirmed that it has released an over-the-air security update for several HTC smartphones. In a statement posted to Sprint's community forum by…
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Sprint To Roll Out LTE-Advanced Network By Mid-2013
Speaking during the 4G World conference in Chicago on Tuesday, Sprint's vice president of network development and engineering Iyad Tarazi confirmed that Sprint will begin…
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Android Said To Have Overtaken Apple In Global Mobile App Downloads
Applications downloaded to Android devices in the second quarter surpassed the number apps downloaded from Apple's iOS App Store. New data from market research and…
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NFC Chip Shipments May Surpass 1.2 Billion Units By 2015
Market research firm In-Stat released a report on Monday that suggests NFC chip shipments will grow dramatically during the next several years as an increasing…
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Android Usage Poised To Pass Symbian In Nokia's Backyard; iOS Already No. 1
Usage of Android-based devices has exploded in Nordic countries over the past few months and is set to push Symbian into the No. 3 spot…
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Verizon 4G LTE Rolling Out Ahead Of Schedule, More Than 186 Million Americans Covered
Verizon Wireless announced on Monday that its 4G LTE network is rolling out faster than originally planned. The carrier provides 4G access to more than…
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Samsung Announces Android-Powered Transform Ultra For Sprint
Samsung announced the Transform Ultra for Sprint on Monday, an Android 2.3-powered smartphone with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The Transform Ultra is powered by a…
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UBS: Apple To Ship 42.5 Million iPhones In Q4
Spurred by the iPhone 4S launch, several analysts expect sales of Apple's iPhone lineup to explode during the fourth quarter of this year. "The timing…
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ABI: Global LTE Connections To Approach 80 Million In 2013
LTE networks in the United States are expanding at a remarkable pace — after less than a year, the U.S. is already the global 4G…
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'Tremendous Demand' For Free iPhone 3GS, AT&T CEO Says
During AT&T's third-quarter earnings call on Thursday, CEO Ralph de la Vega discussed the continued success his company still sees from the iPhone 3GS. "We have…
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Android Market Surpasses 500,000 Published Apps
The total number of published applications in Google's Android Market climbed past the half-million mark in September. According to data from mobile app market intelligence…
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'Say Hello To The Most Amazing iPhone Yet' [Video]
Apple's first television advertisement for the iPhone 4S began airing on Thursday and it bills the new smartphone as Apple's most amazing iPhone yet. Titled…
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Steve Jobs Vowed To Destroy Android, Called The Platform A 'Stolen Product'
Apple co-Founder and former chief executive Steve Jobs vowed to devote his life and all of Apple's cash to destroying Google's Android operating system, which…
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iPhone 4S Ships With Siri-Related Security Threat
Siri, secure yourself. If only that command worked; as it turns out, the popular virtual assistant feature on the iPhone 4S that allows users to…
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Without LTE, iPhone 5 Will Be 'Run Over By The Others' Carrier Exec Says
Swedish carrier TeliaSonera SVP Tommy Ljunggren thinks the iPhone 5 may be outdone by the competition if it does not offer support for 4G LTE…
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