It's likely a design direction for a curved future iPhone, but it's also possibly a stealth patent filing for an iWatch that makes a little more sense than previously revealed.
China is a top strategic market for Apple. But Samsung claimed the country's smartphone title in 2012 for the first time, according to new data released over the weekend.
Qustodio, which creates software that lets parents see into a child's browsing behavior and application use on many devices, received $1 million in seed funding today.
Apple may be winning the smartphone battle stateside, but Android is winning the global smartphone war being fought all over the world.
Need another sign that smartphones are getting too big?
Global phone shipments hit 1.6 billion units in 2012, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics, with Samsung shipping an massive 396.5 million phones last year.
Just when you thought the sad, ugly story of Microsoft's Kin phones was over, along comes some leaked internal testing videos that makes the whole tale even worse.
Editor's Pick The latest IDC numbers are out, and Android is by far the undisputed heavyweight champion of the smartphone world. If Android was Mike Tyson, iOS would be Peewee Herman, and everything else is dust on the floor.
In other breathlessly breaking news, Facebook will top two billion users, probably two years from now. Google's website index will reach a trillion webpages, about two decades from now. And the sun will likely go nova, if we're still here in a few billion years.
Want some lead, mercury, or chlorine with your new iPhone 5 or Galaxy S3? You're in luck: both phones contain those and many other toxic substances.
Like caller ID on steroids, the Current Caller ID Android app displays social media updates, as well as local news and weather information, alongside a caller's name and number when receiving or making a call or text.
Liquipel, a company that produces waterproof “nano coating” for phones and other electronic devices has raised around $10 million in its first round of funding.
The technology is applied to electronic devices and protects the hardware against water. While it …
Apple has moved up two spots in the world phone manufacturer rankings, with LG and ZTE dropping down a rank and Nokia and Samsung taking the top two slots, according to new IDC research.
IDC’s latest report on the state …
Starting things off on an emotional beat during his CES keynote this morning, Qualcomm CEO and chairman Paul Jacobs unveiled a series of videos that show how mobile devices are changing the lives of people all over the world.
The …
You may love your phone, but do you love it enough to invest in the company that makes it? Well, if you own an iPhone you are more likely to also own Apple stock, a recent survey reveals.
SigFig, an …
Even though Android is handily winning the mobile market share battle, Apple is still trouncing everyone else when it comes to actually making money from its phones.
In the last quarter, Apple snapped up 52 percent of total handset industry …
Not content to let its feature phone software stagnate, Nokia is apparently working on a new low-end mobile operating system called “Meltemi,” which will allow the company to sell more capable phones in emerging markets.
News of the Linux-based Meltemi, …
The smartphone has finally gone mainstream in the U.S., and cell phones aren’t just for calling and texting anymore.
A new study indicates there’s a dramatic shift to “smartphone culture,” where people are using social networks and downloading media such …
Microsoft has asked Samsung to pay $15 for each Android phone it makes, according to a Reuters report. Microsoft owns a lot of patents related to Android and is using them to help earn millions of dollars each year.
The …
Will Android kill the iPhone? Or is it the other way around? It’s tempting to stick with the market share battle mindset when it comes to smartphones, but as Asymco’s Horace Dediu points out, the real question may be, who …
