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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Sweet Android High-school: A Japanese comic where Motorola is married to Google
A new Japanese comic called “Sweet Android High-school” chronicles the relationship between major Android vendors and the rest of the…
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…
HTC announces $760 million share buy back ahead of ITC import ban ruling
> Shares of the Taiwanese Android phone maker HTC fell 6.5 percent this morning following the ruling by the International…
Schmidt: Apple is jealous of Android’s success, that’s why they’re suing
Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt has gone on the offensive and bashed Apple over patent infringement claims the company had…
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…
Google, Samsung, and others sued over Nortel search patents
Google, Samsung, and several other Android handset manufacturers are being sued by Rockstar, a consortium backed by Android competitors Microsoft…
Samsung beats Apple in acquiring first-time smartphone owners, while Apple wins in conversions
New figures from CIRP reported in Fortune show that both Samsung and Apple get the bulk of their smartphone sales from existing users of…
Apple spends hundreds of millions to sue Android makers, is it working?
Newsweek‘s Dan Lyons reported today that Apple’s “thermonuclear war” on Android smartphone manufacturers is fading fast, while a new rumor…
HTC reports painful Q1: Net profit plummets 70 percent, sales drop 35 percent
HTC released unaudited Q1 2012 sales figures today, and the painful results show the Taiwanese manufacturer is floundering due to heavy competition….
New comScore U.S. data shows continuing decline in Android market share
comScore today released its report on United States smartphone subscriber market share for the three month period ending in May. The…
HTC gears up for patent fights with Apple and Microsoft, buys S3 Graphics for $300 million
In case you didn’t notice, tech headlines recently are all about patents. Be it the ongoing case of patent troll…
Google buys a thousand IBM patents
Anticipating Android backers will face legal hurdles as Apple now has the upper hand in its case against HTC (here…
Survey: Android folks more comfortable switching handsets, one in three eyeing the iPhone
Apple’s embattled iPhone has had tough time competing against the legions of Android handsets that have flooded the market. That…
Google, Android manufacturers agree to participate in “Smartphone Anti-Theft Voluntary Commitment” program
Google has agreed to back a new initiative along with a host of Android manufacturers and all of the major…
Apple and Google agree to settle patent litigation, but will not cross license
According to a court filing discovered by Reuters, Apple and Google’s Motorola Mobility unit have agreed to settle their ongoing…
Opinion: iPhone 7 is mostly a technological catchup, but it’s an undeniably polished one
Apple stepped up. Today it announced the iPhone 7, the first true successor to the iPhone 6 that launched in 2014….
HTC’s ‘Be Brilliant’ ad for One A9 is very 1984-esque [Video]
HTC’s launch of the One A9 has caught the attention of many. The company insists that the latest mid-tier device…
HTC thinks China is the way out of its troubles, with custom OS
The WSJ reports that HTC is now working on a custom smartphone operating system designed specifically for the Chinese market. HTC…
HTC, Motorola claim to not follow Apple in throttling CPU performance as batteries age
Last week, Apple confirmed that it degrades CPU performance on older smartphones as batteries age. The iPhone maker was heavily…
The HTC 10 ships with native AirPlay audio streaming support, a first for an Android device
By means of third-party utilities, Android has featured the ability to stream to AirPlay devices like the Apple TV for…
Google Nexus 9 head to head: coming straight from a year with the iPad Air
I’ve been an iPad Air user for a solid year. Sure, I’ve tried tried and reviewed other devices, but my…