China Mobile Lures 5 Million New iPhone Users With Wi-Fi, Rebates
China Mobile has yet to convince Apple to partner on an iPhone that supports its proprietary TD-SCDMA 3G network, but that hasn't stopped the carrier…
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iOS Market Share Balloons In October, Android Climbs To No. 2 Mobile OS
Propelled by the popularity of its iPad tablet and the successful launch of the latest iPhone, Apple's share of the mobile operating system market jumped…
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Microsoft Lawyer Defends Android Licensing Strategy
Speaking with The San Francisco Chronicle recently, the deputy general counsel of Microsoft's intellectual property group, Horacio Gutiérrez, discussed his company's decisions to chase down other firms for…
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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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Best Buy Offering $150 32GB TouchPad With HP Notebook Purchase
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again. Best Buy announced on Monday that customers who purchase an HP or Compaq laptop, desktop…
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Apple May Be Building Ultra-Thin 15-Inch MacBook
Apple is designing a new 15-inch MacBook model that will offer an ultra-thin MacBook Air-like design, Macotakara said recently. We heard a similar rumor in…
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HTC Reports Record Q3, Smartphone Shipments Up 93%
HTC on Monday reported a record third quarter that saw profit grow 68% on shipments of 13.2 million handsets, up 93% from the same quarter…
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Apple, Samsung Eye RPO Patents For New Touch Tech, More Ammo In Patent Wars
Apple and Samsung are among the companies expected to take part in an upcoming sealed-bid auction of RPO's manufacturing assets and patent portfolio, which covers…
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HP May Layoff 500 Employees, Finally Bury webOS
HP said earlier this year that it was planning to kill off its webOS hardware business, and reports suggested it was planning to sell the…
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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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HP Windows 8 Tablets Arriving Next Year, CEO Says; webOS Future Up In The Air
During the company's third-quarter earnings call on Thursday, HP CEO Meg Whitman confirmed that her company will launch tablets powered by Microsoft's Windows 8 operating…
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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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Motorola Mobility Beats Q3 Estimates; Android Phone Sales Remain Strong, Tablet Sales Weaken
Motorola on Thursday reported third-quarter earnings that beat analyst estimates thanks to strong sales of the company's Android-powered smartphones. Motorola doubled Wall Street's EPS estimate…
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HP Will Not Spin Off PC Business
After announcing this past August that it was considering a spin off of its PC business, HP confirmed on Thursday that it would keep its…
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Apple Will 'Absolutely' Launch A TV, Siri To Replace Remote According To Report
Apple has been planning to redesign the television since 2007 and when it finally launches the new set, it will replace the age-old remote control…
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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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Apple In Talks To Power North Carolina Data Center Site With Solar Farm
Apple's massive billion-dollar North Carolina data center, which received a failing rating in a Greenpeace report earlier this year, may soon be powered by a…
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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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