Smartphones

Nokia 808 PureView Boasts 41-Megapixel Sensor

February 27, 2012 7:21 am | by Andrew Berg | News | Comments

The company unveiled the 808 PureView at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain.

Huawei Puts New Power Horse into Play

February 27, 2012 7:18 am | by Monica Alleven | News | Comments

Can Huawei's device business really take off with the help of a flying horse made out of phones?

Isis Adds Options Ahead of Mid-Year Launch

February 27, 2012 7:16 am | by Maisie Ramsay | News | Comments

Isis has added three new banks to its mobile wallet ahead of its mid-year debut in Salt Lake City and Austin, Texas.

MetroPCS LTE, Smartphone Bet Begins to Pay Off

February 23, 2012 7:18 am | by Maisie Ramsay | News | Comments

MetroPCS' costly gamble on LTE and Android-based smartphones showed signs of paying off last quarter...

The Note: Tablet, Smartphone or Both?

February 17, 2012 7:58 pm | by Andrew Berg | Articles | Comments

The LTE-capable Galaxy Note for AT&T comes running Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), which Samsung says will be upgradeable to Ice Cream Sandwich, and packs a whopping 1.5 GHz dual-core processor. The battery is one of the larger ones on the market...

Report: Apple Snags Big Chunk of Q4 Smartphone Sales

February 7, 2012 6:44 am | by Andrew Berg | News | Comments

Apple emerged as the best-selling handset OEM in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to NPD Group.

Windows Phone: the OEM Challenge

February 5, 2012 7:04 pm | by Maisie Ramsay | Articles | Comments

Not too long ago, it would have taken quite the stretch of imagination to picture a Nokia smartphone as the belle of the ball at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month.

S & P Lowers Rating on NEC

January 30, 2012 6:51 am | by Andrew Berg | News | Comments

Standard & Poor's Rating Services today responded to a troubling earnings report from Japanese telecom equipment and smartphone manufacturer NEC...

AT & T Posts $6.7B Loss Despite Surging Smartphones

January 26, 2012 7:10 am | by Maisie Ramsay | News | Comments

Verizon wasn't the only telecommunications company to slip into the red this week. AT&T said this morning it lost $6.7 billion during the fourth quarter...

Nokia Sells 1 Million Lumia Phones, Reports Loss of $1.38B

January 26, 2012 7:08 am | by Andrew Berg | News | Comments

Nokia's fourth-quarter 2011 earnings were a mixed bag, as the company announced it has sold over 1 million Lumia smartphones since launch and yet...

Report: Nokia, WP7 Poised to Gain Share

January 19, 2012 6:56 am | by Andrew Berg | News | Comments

Nokia has set the stage to regain some of its lost smartphone market share and to re-establish Microsoft's Windows Phone as a leading contender...

Android Phones Still Tops; iPhone Gains Ground

January 18, 2012 7:10 am | by Andrew Berg | News | Comments

While the iPhone 4S might have been a mild disappointment to many Apple faithful, it apparently spurred droves to choose the iPhone in the fourth quarter of 2011.

Nokia Unveils Lumia 900 as AT & T Exclusive

January 10, 2012 5:54 am | by Andrew Berg | News | Comments

Nokia is back in the USA. The company on Monday unveiled the Nokia Lumia 900, an LTE-capable Windows Phone 7 (WP7) smartphone. The Lumia 900 will launch as an exclusive with AT&T.

Review: Lumia 710 Good Return to U.S. for Nokia

January 4, 2012 9:16 pm | by Andrew Berg | Articles | Comments

Launched today as an exclusive on T-Mobile USA's network, the Lumia 710 is available for $49.95 with a two-year contract. While that $49.95 price tag screams mediocrity, the 710 offers far more polish...

Microsoft Replaces Lees as Head of Windows Mobile

December 13, 2011 6:03 am | by Andrew Berg | News | Comments

Microsoft is replacing Andy Lees as head of the company’s mobile division, according to a report yesterday from The Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital blog. Lees led the effort to rebuild the company’s Windows Phone software into what is

Hot, Not So Hot & Most Important Devices of 2011

December 3, 2011 2:30 pm | by Andrew Berg | Articles | Comments

Some players have hit it big in the mobile device market this year (Samsung Galaxy S II), while others have fallen flat (HP Touchpad). But even some of 2011’s misses (BlackBerry PlayBook) have been critical for their respective companies, proving that in the device market, a product doesn’t necessarily have to be successful to be important.

MetroPCS Gets First HTC Handset

November 21, 2011 7:07 am | by Andrew Berg | News | Comments

MetroPCS today announced its first HTC handset, the HTC Wildfire S, an Android-powered smartphone.

Frontier to Resell AT & T Wireless Service

November 17, 2011 7:12 am | by Andrew Berg | News | Comments

Frontier Communications yesterday announced an agreement that will offer Frontier customers a broad assortment of AT&T smartphones and access to its mobile broadband network.

Making of the Nokia Lumia 800

November 15, 2011 11:42 am | Videos | Comments

Review: Nokia Lumia 800 Worth the Wait

November 15, 2011 8:57 am | by Andrew Berg | Articles | Comments

The Lumia 800 emerges as not only an impressive smartphone but one that could mean there's hope for both Nokia's aspirations in the high-end device market, as well as Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 (WP7) platform.