Nokia (NOK) sold 7.4 million Lumia smartphones during the second quarter, with all but a fraction of those sales occurring outside North America. Average selling prices for handsets fell, and Nokia continued to lose share to Android phones in the lower end of the...
NEC appears ready to hang up on its smartphone business after its PC partner Lenovo declined the chance to invest, according to Japan's Nikkei news source. The report says that NEC will retain its traditional handset business.
Japan's NEC has a successful partnership with...
Security consultants at iSEC Partners have demonstrated a security breach in femtocells made by Samsung and sold by Verizon Wireless. Although both companies say the breach has now been fixed, ISEC believes the problem may not be unique to one product or one vendor,...
Palo Alto's Varsity Theatre doesn't look much different on the outside than it did six months ago, but the University Avenue landmark just blocks from Stanford has been transformed on the inside and is now open for business as part of the Samsung Open...
Samsung and HTC offered shared their best estimates for second quarter earnings over the long weekend, and Clearwire shareholders prepared to vote on Sprint Nextel's takeover bid knowing that Softbank finally has FCC approval to buy a controlling interest in the nation's third largest...
ZTE and Telefonica have launched the first Firefox OS smartphone, the ZTE Open. Priced as low as $51 ($90 retail, with $39 worth of free airtime for prepaid customers), the ZTE Open is clearly designed for the mobile phone user who has never before...
Apple has filed an application to trademark the "iWatch" name in Japan, the first known patent application for the name in any country. The application was filed early last month but was not announced until last week. It has not yet been approved.
The patent...
Qualcomm Technologies Inc. is enabling the industry's first LTE-Advanced smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE-A, with its Snapdragon 800 processor.
Qualcomm said that the new Galaxy S4 LTE-A will be launched on all three mobile operators’ LTE networks in Korea, starting with SK Telecom, and...
The HTC One was one of the biggest smartphone launches at Mobile World Congress, but four months later Wall Street is wondering if sales have peaked, and HTC has already introduced a new high-end smartphone, the Butterfly S. If the Butterfly S makes it...
iPhone 4 and 4S owners are in a seller's market. Carriers and retailers are offering customers the new iPhone 5 for little or no cost in exchange for an iPhone 4 or 4S. Now even Apple itself is reportedly preparing an in-store trade-in program.
The...
Getting its ducks in a row for the holiday shopping season, Samsung is rolling out 1,400 "Samsung Experience Shops" in Best Buy stores nationwide this summer. All of the new shops are expected to be completed well before the fourth quarter, which is traditionally...
In the clearest sign yet that it is focused on the enterprise mobility market, Samsung today introduced two new tablets that runs Windows 8. One of the tablets, the ATIV Q, also runs Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean). The other, the ATIV Tab 3,...
Hoping to capitalize on the positive reviews for the HTC One, the Taiwanese smartphone maker today launched a successor to its Butterfly smartphone – the Butterfly S. Like the HTC One, the Butterfly S features BlinkFeed, a constantly updated feed of news and personal...
Huawei may face some obstacles when it comes to selling telecom gear in the U.S., but the Chinese conglomerate continues to be aggressive in the smartphone space, particularly in Western Europe. Today Huawei launched the Ascend P6, an Android 4.2.2 phone just 6.18 mm...
Apple is the latest company to disclose to its customers how much data it has shared this year with the government. The company says it does not allow the government access to its servers but does comply with specific requests on a case-by-case basis....
Apple is the latest company to disclose to its customers how much data it has shared this year with the government. The company says it does not allow the government access to its servers but does comply with specific requests on a case-by-case basis....
It seems that even the world's top seller of smartphones is not immune to peer pressure. Samsung has added a built-in zoom lens to its Galaxy S4, apparently very aware that Nokia and HTC are both focusing on high-end camera technology in their flagship...
Verizon Wireless was the last of the big four carriers to get the Galaxy S4, but apparently many Verizon customers think the phone was worth waiting for. According to summarized results of consumer reviews parsed by Argus Insights, the S4's performance on Verizon's LTE...
Apple announced the newest version of its iOS operating system yesterday at its Worldwide Developer Conference. iOS 7 will improve battery life for iPhones and iPads, and it will feature an iPhone control center -- a finger swipe from the bottom of the screen...
AT&T Mobility is hoping to pick up some new customers next month after Sprint Nextel turns off its iDEN network at midnight on June 30. Diehard iDEN customers who have ignored their carrier's efforts to get them to switch over to Sprint Nextel's CDMA/LTE...
Apple is reportedly launching a trade-in program in its stores, taking old iPhones off the hands of customers who want to upgrade to the iPhone 5. Right now iPhone users can trade in their existing phones online or with their carriers, but Apple is...
Sales of Microsoft's Surface RT tablet have been sluggish. IDC reports that Microsoft sold just 200,000 Surface RT tablets in the first quarter, down from 900,000 in the fourth quarter of 2012. Now the software giant is giving buyers the Surface's Type or Touch...
Sprint Nextel reportedly plans to market its own smartphone brand. Engadget reports that ZTE will manufacture the LTE phone for Sprint and that it will be called the Vital.
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Lenovo has made no secret of its ambition to expand into the U.S. smartphone market, and now the Chinese company is reportedly seeking a partner to help grow its already robust mobile device business. The president of Lenovo's Asia-Pacific unit told The Wall Street...
