Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu told investors that a CDMA-compatible iPhone would pose a greater threat to Android sales rather than to BlackBerry sales. Wu suggests that Apple could target Verizon... More >
According to a new survey by development tools maker Appcelerator , developer interest in the iPad has waned over the past three months, largely due to its lack of a camera and support for multita... More >
Apple is still at the top of the smartphone mountain, but it is facing increasing competition from Android . New market research from Google-owned AdMob reiterated previous figures from media anal... More >
The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple plans to begin producing a new iPhone this year that is compatible with Verizon and Sprint . The new iPhone would work with CDMA wireless network techno... More >
Harbinger Capital Partners, a private equity firm, has filed plans with the FCC to build a nationwide LTE network by 2015 that will use spectrum owned by several satellite companies, FierceBroadba... More >
Last week, Sprint unveiled the HTC Evo 4G , the first smartphone to run on Sprint's 4G mobile broadband network. The device features two cameras: a back-facing camera for users to take photos and vi... More >
For the folks that did not pre-order the Apple iPad, the Wi-Fi version of the media tablet will be available at Apple and Best Buy stores this Saturday. Recent online orders of the iPad aren't expe... More >
T-Mobile USA began selling the HTC HD2 on Wednesday and the first batch was sold out by Friday. TmoNews guestimates that first-day sales , excluding online sales and phone orders, reached 21,700. ... More >
This week at the CTIA trade show, HTC unveiled the Evo 4G , Sprint's first 4G smartphone. HTC CEO Peter Chou also took time to talk up Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 . Chou says his company pla... More >
Verizon has teamed with Charge Anywhere to provide Verizon subscribers with an avenue to accept and process credit and debit card payments from their phones. Customers will only be able to charge it... More >
Earlier this week, Verizon announced that Skype mobile applications would be available for select 3G handsets beginning today. Next Monday, Verizon users will be able to download the VoIP app from ... More >
Despite legal issues with Apple , handset makers have no plans to curtail their development of Android phones , reports The Wall Street Journal . HTC, the subject of Apple's legal assault, introdu... More >
CTIA released the results from its semi-annual U.S. wireless industry survey for the last half of 2009. Despite facing the largest recession since the Great Depression, wireless carriers revealed tha... More >
The CEOs of Clearwire and Sprint, while touting 4G smartphones and WiMax rollouts at the CTIA Wireless 2010, both left the door open to long-term evolution ( LTE ), which looks to be the dominant... More >
During December 2009, data traffic outnumbered voice traffic for the first time, TG Daily reports. For the past two years, Ericsson tracked traffic across networks around the world and determined... More >
Verizon Wireless has announced that Skype mobile applications will be available beginning Thursday on nine Verizon 3G smartphones. Skype mobile will use the Verizon network for the wireless connecti... More >
Sprint unveiled the first 4G phone, called the HTC Evo 4G, at CTIA Wireless 2010. According to interweb ink , the Evo 4G runs on the Android 2.1 platform and has an impressive array of specs : 3G... More >
Palm has yet to emit a death rattle . There are more than a handful of life-preserving tips floating around for Palm as it continues to navigate some very storm enterprise seas. One method of recove... More >
Apple has begun offering full-price iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS handsets without an AT&T contract at its U.S. locations. The phones are still locked, which means they still only work on AT&T's ... More >
Stuart Parmenter, director of Mobile at Mozilla, announced that Mozilla has stopped working on porting its Firefox browser to all Windows Mobile operating systems , including Windows Phone 7, report... More >
Palm's future looks bleak. The company's poor third quarter has prompted many analysts to downgrade the company further and advise investors to sell. Palm shares are considered worthless by several... More >
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster dubbed 2010 the "Year of the Mac" in a research note last Tuesday. Munster relied on NPD Group figures that showed the Mac sales were up 43 percent in February, f... More >
For those intrigued by the idea of a media tablet, but not ready to pull the trigger on Apple's iPad, the HP Slate is scheduled for a September release in Europe, says a report from Spanish publicati... More >
According to figures released by Berg Insight, global shipments of GPS-enabled handsets increased 92 percent last year. GPS , a standard feature in high-end and mid-range feature phones, is poised t... More >
According to a new study from wireless consultant Chetan Sharma , North American consumers pay more for mobile applications than people in other regions of the world. North Americans paid $1.09 per ... More >
Sprint's first 4G phone will be available next summer and is expected to be unveiled next week. In the meantime the company divulged that Google's Android-powered Nexus One smartphone will be c... More >
Sprint is expected to unveil its first 4G phone next week at the CTIA wireless conference in Las Vegas. The device, dubbed by HTC as the Supersonic , will run on the company's WiMax network, which i... More >
Google announced the release of Gesture Search for Android 1.6, which was first announced two weeks ago and was previously available just for Android 2.0 or higher handsets. The app, which offers a... More >
Microsoft has made a clean break with Windows Phone 7. While it can be argued that it had to be done, despite disappointing users with a lack of backward compatibility, it'll be tough to make a cas... More >
As Europe nears the deployment of of Long-Term Evolution (LTE) networks, carriers across the continent are battling to hold onto fees for connecting calls to other mobile operators. The New York Tim... More >
Google's Nexus One could be called a flop. Compared to other smartphones, its sales are seen as slow , says the Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal . In the same amount of time it took Apple... More >
CDMA-capable Nexus One smartphones are said to be en route to Verizon, according to a report in the Chinese-language Economic Daily News. Google says it will sell the device online for $179 with a V... More >
According to a new report from Crowd Science, Research in Motion and its BlackBerry could be in trouble , eWEEK reports. The market research firm's semi-annual smartphone brand loyalty survey foun... More >
Apple began taking orders for the iPad , which is to be released April 3, this past Friday. Pre-orders for the device were said to have reached 50,000 in just two hours. Apple has not released any... More >
The UK launch of Google's Nexus One has been delayed due to customer-service issues it has been having in the United States. Google's smartphone was due to launch this month. Vodafone has al... More >
It's estimated that Apple sold around 50,000 iPads in its first two hours of availability last week. But those 50,000 soon-to-be iPad owners won't get a battery replacement from Apple when it goes ... More >
The Apple iPad was made available for pre-order this morning. It was suggested that it would be foolish to order such an expensive product without truly knowing anything about it. Well, leav... More >
Vodafone appears set to offer the Google Nexus One. The price and availability are still unknown, but Vodafone updated its "coming soon" page with a "register for updates" option for the Nexus One ,... More >
Motorola's decision to switch to Microsoft's Bing search engine on Android phones has drawn the ire of advocates of Google's mobile platform. Regarding the move, Christy Wyatt, corporate vic... More >
One of the biggest criticisms of Apple's iPhone is its lack of multitasking support . Apple appears to be working to amend that complaint in its upcoming iPhone OS 4.0 , reports Phones Review . &n... More >
Smartphones are set to outpace sales of desktop computers by 2012. Sales of smartphones are expected to more than triple to 491.1 million units by 2012, up from 139.3 million in 2008, Bloomberg r... More >
Opera has released a beta of Opera Mini 5 for the Android platform. The firm claims the browser, available directly from the company's Web site and the Android Market, will help reduce page load time... More >
Motorola and Microsoft have signed a new deal to bring Bing search and map services to Motorola phones, including the company's Android-based devices. Initially, the switch will occur on handsets in ... More >
Verizon says it will sell its first 4G smartphone in mid-2011, six months earlier than it had previously said. The company's recent trials of its LTE network in Boston and Seattle produced better-t... More >
Verizon is poised to take advantage of the hype surrounding Apple's iPad . The nation's No. 1 wireless carrier reportedly plans to use the tablet to peddle 3G data plans , says Chris Ziegler at En... More >
According to ARM, the Apple iPad will be the face to launch 1,000 tablets . Maybe not that many, but ARM executive Roy Chen expects as many as 50 media tablets before year's end, says Erictric . Ch... More >
Larry Dignan at ZDNet asks if it is time to write the obit for netbooks . IDC's 2010 PC industry predictions spurred the question. The analyst firm predicts that last year's rise of netbooks , wh... More >
Dell announced updates its business-centric line of laptops. The new Vostro 3000 series is made up of four models: the 13.3-inch 3300, 14-inch 3400, 15.6-inch 3500 and the 17.3-inch 3700, reports ... More >
Apple's iPad made its commercial debut during last weekend's Academy Awards. Hewlett Packard has taken a few jabs at the device for the sake of its HP Slate. While the Slate won't beat the iPad to ma... More >
Research in Motion's BlackBerry is suffering another nationwide outage. According to Dataoutages News : A number of users are reporting and an escalated RIM tech support call has confirmed data iss... More >
After successful trials in Boston and Seattle, Verizon says it is well on track to deploy LTE in 25 to 30 markets by the end of 2010. The trials produced downlink average rates of 5 to 12 Mbps and ... More >
Default search deals significantly improve the likelihood that users will use the search engine presented by the browser. A few short days after being tapped as the default search engine for the Bac... More >
AT&T has officially entered the Android market. It's offering the Motorola Backflip for $99.99 with a two-year contract and mail-in rebate, HotHardware reports. The handset, which runs on Goo... More >
Has Microsoft written a Dear John letter to all its Windows Mobile users? Charlie Kindel, partner group program manager for the Windows Phone Application Platform & Developer team wrote on... More >
Apple has put the rumored March 26 release date for the iPad to bed and confimred it will begin shipping the Wi-F version of the tablet computer Saturday, April 3 in the U.S. only. The Wi-Fi plus 3... More >
Is Apple scared of Android ? Figures released by media analyst Quantcast show that while the iPhone OS is well ahead of its competition in market share, it has suffered a significant drop sin... More >
Opera Software has been busy. The company released Opera 10.5, which it claims is the fastest browser ever , earlier this week. Today, Opera released a native version of Opera Mini 5 beta for hand... More >
Microsoft launched its first Android app today. Tag turns Android's camera into a barcode scanner, says BBC News . Microsoft's Tag app is already available on BlackBerry, iPhone, Symbian and Windo... More >
Smartphones running Android 2.0 or higher can now take advantage of a new application released by Google that enables users to search their phone by scrawling on the screen with their finger. Gestur... More >
The Examiner and MacRumors have both cited anonymous sources saying the Apple iPad will be out March 26. Customers who line up for the iPad on the day of its launch reportedly will receive a spe... More >
Research in Motion could be in the process of developing its first BlackBerry that features a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Images purporting to be the BlackBerry Storm 3 have surfaced on the Internet... More >
The Google vs. China conflict that got under way in January is not getting in the way of China Unicom's plans for Android one bit. Even the lack of Android access to developers hasn't shaken the ... More >
Skype and Nokia have announced the release of Skype for Symbian , Recombu reports. The free download is available in Nokia's Ovi Store. The mobile application offers free Skype-to-Skype calls, ins... More >
Microsoft is working on a new version of its Surface technology. Microsoft Mobile Surface links a mobile phone to a camera and projector. The screen is then projected onto a flat surface and the ... More >
A year ago roughly, SAP and Sybase announced a partnership that would see the two work closely on mobile CRM and ERP applications. Today the companies are making good on that promise by releasing the... More >
Microsoft confirmed that the majority of smartphones running Windows Mobile 6.5 cannot be upgraded to Microsoft's new mobile operating system. The problem is due to handsets not meeting the hardware... More >
GO-Trust Technology announced it is shipping KingCall, a comprehensive VoIP encryption application that uses a microSD that contains a smartcard chip that encrypts text and voice when used in conju... More >
Britain's mobile phone users will have to wait until April for the Nexus One . While T-Mobile users have been able to get a subsidized version of the device since January, Verizon subscribers will b... More >
HP will launch five business-class notebooks and one business-class tablet PC in April. Among the devices are the EliteBook 2540p, EliteBook 2740p tablet and HP's ProBook standard series of notebook... More >
Google's Nexus One smartphone is reportedly set for an April launch in the UK. While an unlocked version of the device is available through Google's Web site, Vodafone is in talks with the company to... More >
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