Smartphones

Smartphone Shipments Exceed Feature Phones For First Time

Smartphone shipments now account for more than half of all mobile phones as Samsung leads the way

11 years ago

BYOD Has Value Despite Risks, Says Survey

BYOD initiatives are worth the risk says a Symantec survey, so long as adequate steps are taken beforehand

11 years ago

Samsung Smartphone Sales Boost Record Q1 Profits

Samsung in good shape ahead of Samsung Galaxy S4 launch

11 years ago

BlackBerry Q10 Gets Keyboard Optimised Skype and WhatsApp

Skype and WhatsApp arrive on BlackBerry Q10, but Z10 users miss out on VoIP app

11 years ago

Vodafone Expects £65bn Verizon Wireless Bid

Game of Phones: Verizon Communications wants to own Verizon Wireless joint-venture

11 years ago

Academics Tout Touchscreen KALQ Keyboard As QWERTY Alternative

Researchers say KALQ keyboard offers faster two thumb typing than QWERTY

11 years ago

BlackBerry Talks BYOD Cost Savings and Simplicity

The BYOD trend is not going away and BlackBerry said it is seeking to simplify it and reduce costs

11 years ago

Review: BlackBerry Q10

Can the keyboard-based BlackBerry Q10 offer the best of both worlds?

11 years ago

First Firefox OS Smartphones Sell Out In Hours

Firefox OS developer handsets are already sold out

11 years ago

British Chip Designer ARM Holdings Posts £89.4m Pre-Tax Q1 Profit

ARM Holdings benefits from continued demand for smartphones and tablets

11 years ago

ITC Dismisses Final Motorola Mobility Patent In Apple Lawsuit

Google once again fails to make the most of Motorola patents

11 years ago

Nokia Gets HTC One Microphone Component Banned In Holland

Nokia tells HTC to stop copying and think of its own ideas

11 years ago

Half A Million Download Facebook Home, With Mixed Reactions

Facebook Home has user rating of 2.2 after more than 500,000 downloads

11 years ago

Mobile Growth Drives Home Network Expansion, Says Gartner

Residential networks will increase in sophistication thanks to the growing use of connected devices within the home

11 years ago

Archos Platinum Range Of Smartphones Launches In May

Tablet maker branches out into unlocked Android smartphones

11 years ago

EE 4G To Stock CAT4 4G Huawei E5576 Mobile Wi-Fi Device

EE 4G says the Huawei E5576 Mobile Wi-Fi Device is the UK's first Category 4 LTE device

11 years ago

Nokia Lumia Sales Increase Fails To Prevent Q1 Loss

Sales of Nokia Lumia smartphones increase by 27 percent

11 years ago

Google Reveals Enhanced Mobile Search

Google has ported two desktop features to its mobile search to aid users in rapid web searches

11 years ago

First Jolla Sailfish OS Smartphone To Be Revealed In May

New smartphone will be shown off next month with Kickstarter-style pre-sale incentive programme

11 years ago

WhatsApp CEO Says It Is ‘Bigger Than Twitter’

WhatsApp says that it will never give in to the temptation of advertising

11 years ago

Amazon Appstore Expands To Nearly 200 Countries

Amazon Appstore for Android to be available in key markets and the Vatican City

11 years ago

Samsung Taiwan Accused Of Paying Students To Slate HTC

Samsung Taiwan advertising agency allegedly paid students to criticise HTC

11 years ago

Firefox OS To Launch In Five Countries This June But Not UK

Firefox OS will launch in a number of European and South American nations by the end of 2013

11 years ago

Ofcom Promises Clearer Charges For Business Phone Numbers

Ofcom wants to make the cost of calling 08.09 and 118 numbers clearer to consumers

11 years ago

Angry BlackBerry Cries Foul Over Z10 Returns Claim

BlackBerry demands an investigation into a 'false and misleading' claim that the Z10 is being returned at excessive rates

11 years ago

O2 Refresh Lets Users Upgrade Smartphones At Any Time

New O2 Refresh tariff sepearates the cost of price plan from the handset

11 years ago

Samsung Galaxy Mega Phablet Boasts Whopping 6.3 Inch Display

Samsung Galaxy Mega promises to fit in your pocket, but is also available with a 5.8 screen

11 years ago

Apple iMessage And FaceTime Outages Affect iOS Users

Apple confirms disruptions but cause remains a mystery

11 years ago

Google Play Android App Gets Redesign

New version of Google Play to rollout to smartphones and tablets running Android 2.2 Froyo or above

11 years ago