Android now powers almost 60% of smart mobile devices
Research firm Canalys is out today with its latest report tracking worldwide smart mobile device shipments for Q1 with Android…
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Samsung and Acer battle for number two tablet spot behind Apple
Who said Apple has to dominate the tablet market? As of now they are, but that doesn’t mean things can’t…
Apple successfully blocks Samsung from showing off Galaxy Tab 7.7 at IFA in Germany
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q9w0dxosTE] (We got a look at the Tab 7.7 before it was pulled) Apple won a pretty significant victory today…
China approaches smartphone saturation point, shipments fall as penetration hits 90% – IDC
China – long viewed as one of the key growth markets for smartphones – is now approaching saturation point, according…
Murtazin: Google delaying Nexus Prime/ICS because of Apple patents (Update: No)
Update: He’s wrong. We’ve heard from an impeccable source that Google plans to have invites out “in the next day or so…
Samsung sells one out of every four smartphones in the US as ownership increases
Following the continued growth of smartphones in the US and increasing competition between Samsung and Apple, the two companies saw…
Joining other Android makers, Samsung & LG claim to not throttle CPUs as batteries age
Following comments by HTC and Motorola, LG and Samsung have issued similar denials that it does not throttle CPU performance to…
Samsung Galaxy SIII Review: Can Samsung keep outdoing the competition?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg2rwyEYe5c] I spent the last week with two Samsung Galaxy S IIIs—a Sprint version and an AT&T version. Sprint’s version…
Apple files lawsuit in Tokyo, seeks suspension of Samsung phones and tablets in Japan
Japanese carrier Docomo sold 100,000 Galaxy S II phones in the first three days and today they launched an LTE…
Review: A month with the Samsung Chromebook
TL;DR: This is the first Chromebook effort that fulfills the ChromeOS mission: good quality, excellent (MacBook Air-like) design, low cost…
Android = iOS + RIM + Microsoft + Other
Gartner is out with their first quarter 2011 mobile phone market survey. The results are astounding. The first quarter belonged…
Apple gets Samsunged: New Galaxy S II adverts poke fun of the barista’s latte-making art, suggest Siri is no good
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tmEegvUpGA] Samsung kick started its anti-Apple Galaxy S II campaign with a November 2011 advert that enraged people who would wait…
Almost comical, unintended consequence of of Apple’s patent win: Your manufacturer/carrier might actually update your Android phone
Something funny just hit me. Samsung’s “pure Google” Nexus S phone was hit with a number of software infringements in…
Android achieves Windows-type monopoly in Taiwan as HTC overtakes Nokia in sales volume and value
Android is the dominant smartphone platform pretty much everywhere, but nowhere is Google’s lead more evident than in Taiwan, the…
Nielsen: Android top phone OS in the US, HTC #1 Android vendor
Research firm Nielsen chimed in today with a survey that puts Apple as the leading handset maker in the United States…
Samsung & Apple take half of global smartphone market, Android & iOS hit 80 percent
Research firm Gartner released its numbers today for “Worldwide Mobile Device Sales” during Q1 2012. There are not many surprises…
Galaxy Nexus attracts lines at Verizon stores, so much for Samsung’s bashing of iPhone line sitters
You probably know by now that Verizon has finally begun selling the Samsung Galaxy Nexus for $299 on a two…
Report: Samsung may have passed Apple in smartphone sales
Due to their wide variety of popular Android devices, Samsung “may have” surpassed Apple in smartphone sales according to Boston-based Strategy…
[Review] HP Chromebook 11: a month later and the glow hasn’t worn off
HP and Google combined to create two new Chromebooks which were launched early last month: The $299 Intel Haswell-powered Chromebook…
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 vs Apple iPhone 6 Plus – Full comparison (Video)
Today we’re going to be comparing Apple’s iPhone 6 Plus to Samsung’s Galaxy Note 4. I realized that there are…
Android increases lead over iOS in Q4 to 78% of smartphone market w/ 226m units shipped
Research firm IDC is out today with its latest report on the worldwide smartphone market highlighting shipments and marketshare by operating system…
Smart finally beats dumb, smartphones hitting 51.8 percent of global sales in Q2
In the circles most of us hang out, it might seem incredible that featurephones – aka dumb phones – were…
Google to announce ‘Nexus’ smartwatch in March, to be released in June at Google I/O
CNET is reporting that Google is set to announce a smartwatch next month, manufactured by LG (who also manufactured the…
Samsung announces ‘Galaxy Golden’, a $700 dual-screen flip-phone for Korea
Fit for a Saudi prince, Samsung today made things official for another new flip-phone for the Korean market. While it’s…