Tablets are set to outsell both PCs and notebooks next year. Market research firm Canalys is predicting that 285 million tablets will ship next year, more than the 192 million notebooks that the firm is projecting, and far ahead of PC shipments of 98...
Verizon breaks new ground, ZTE enters the smartwatch race, and HTC goes for the gold (again.)
Verizon breaks new ground
Verizon's Ellipsis tablet represents several "firsts" for the mobile device market. It is the first carrier-branded tablet to hit the U.S. market, the first LTE-only tablet,...
Apple is getting another slice of the $1.05 billion that a jury awarded it last year in its patent trial against Samsung. Judge Lucy Koh cut that amount to $600 million earlier this year, and now a new jury has awarded Apple an additional...
Google and Apple are investing in RF technology to support multiple carrier bands on one device, meaning that users will be able to take their smartphones and tablets from one service provider to another without swapping SIM cards or voiding warranties. Google's Nexus 5...
Apple has reportedly purchased Israel's PrimeSense for $345 million, a move which would give Appe access to the company's tiny 3D sensors that can be embedded in mobile devices. PrimeSense makes a sensor called Capri that can be embedded into mobile devices to enable...
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler wants to crowdsource information about how mobile devices and technologies are performing on wireless networks around the country. The agency has released a speed test app in the Google Play store and is encouraging Android smartphone users to download and...
The first smartphone to be made in America has not set any sales so far, and Google's Motorola is hoping that will change as the Moto X rolls out to more carriers. AT&T was the first to get the customizable smartphone, and now Verizon...
Motorola has officially launched its Moto G smartphone, with the goal of bringing high-end Android devices to new segments of the global market. The Moto G is not an LTE phone, but it does pack a quad-core processor, a high-end display and ample storage,...
Motorola is set to launch a new smartphone tomorrow. The Moto G is expected to be a lower-priced companion to the Moto X, which has failed to gain much traction in the market so far. The G of course stands for Google, which owns...
Apple may finally be caving in to pressure from competing smartphones with larger screens ... or perhaps curving in is the more appropriate phrase here. Bloomberg reports that curved glass will be part of the next generation iPhone, and that the newest iPhones will...
4K video is the next evolution of digital video, and it's the first flavor of ultra-HD video to hit the market. It offers 2160 by 3840 pixel resolution, or 8 megapixels per frame. That's four times as many pixels per frame as 1080p video....
BlackBerry canceled its plan to go private and instead will carry on with a new CEO, John Chen, former CEO of Sybase. Chen says he wants BlackBerry to focus on software going forward, particularly the BlackBerry Messenger app. As for the companies who were...
Quality One Wireless has completed its acquisition of the assets of wireless device distributor PCD, saying the purchase price was north of $125 million. Quality One Wireless had previously submitted a "stalking horse" bid of $105 million, and PCD filed for bankruptcy in an...
Incoming BlackBerry CEO John Chen says the company is not really in the smartphone business. "We're not really in phones, but we're in phones for software, for services," Chen told the Associated Press.
Chen said he sees value in the 80 million people who...
Traditional mobile devices are quickly making way for new form factors looking to take advantage of advancements in various mobile components and a growing acceptance of new ideas from consumers. This can be seen with Google’s Glass device and the more recently launched Samsung...
BlackBerry (BBRY) has abandoned its plan to go private and is calling in a new leader in a last-ditch effort to turn around the troubled company. John Chen, formerly of Sybase, will be executive chairman of the board and interim CEO, and Thorstein Heins...
Sprint and T-Mobile US plan to sell Google's Nexus 5, a first for Google which has never before sold a phone directly through a carrier. Google's new flagship Android 4.4-equipped smartphone is also compatible with AT&T Mobility's network, but Verizon Wireless is not getting...
Rural wireless subscribers are high value customers. Those of us working within the competitive carrier ecosystem already know this, but a recent survey commissioned by the Competitive Carriers Association shows it by the numbers.
This past summer, CCA with the help of Current Analysis surveyed more...
Three top Android smartphone makers will be the first to offer tri-band devices as part of Sprint's new "Spark" offering. Samsung, HTC and LG have all worked with Sprint to enable their smartphones to shift from one band to another, depending on what speed...
Mobile devices are finding their way to more and more parts of the world, and the first phone most new users get will be a smartphone. Smartphones now outsell feature phones, and mobile phone manufacturers are finding that success in the entry-level market is...
Worldwide mobile phone shipments rose 7% to 418 million units during the third quarter, with smartphones accounting for 60% of the total, according to the latest report from Strategy Analytics. Samsung again dominated the market, shipping more phones than Nokia, Apple and LG combined....
iPhone sales exceeded expectations in the quarter ending September 28, hitting 33.8 million as the newest models joined the mix late in September. iPhone sales were up 26% versus the year-ago quarter, but Apple's gross margin and operating profit were down, suggesting higher component...
A slowdown at the high end of the smartphone market did not stop Samsung from raking in record profits once again during the third quarter. While sales of the Korean giant's high-end Galaxy smartphones leveled off, mass-market smartphones did very well, as did the...
RIO DE JANEIRO — Telefónica Vivo presented the first range of smartphones with the Firefox operating system in Brazil during the Futurecom event this week. Vivo is currently the only telecom operator in the country to sell LG and Alcatel devices.
The release follows Firefox...
