Android now has 83 percent of the smartphone market, with Chinese vendors benefiting from market growth and a slump in Samsung's sales. Apple also did well, but Windows Phone lost ground on flat sales.
For the past decade, NFC (Near Field Communications) has promised much and delivered little. But Juniper Research predicts that Apple Pay will now drive market adoption…
Businesses beware — Avast says vast amounts of personal data and photos can be recovered from second-hand Android smartphones even if users have re-set them to factory condition.
Today's Kantar's Worldpanel ComTech report shows Windows Phone has made gains but Android still dominates the European market. "The real battle now is among the Android manufacturers," it says.
Smartphone shipments will fall by 5 percent compared with the end of last year, when suppliers pushed to capitalise on the holiday selling season. But TrendForce predicts quarterly growth for the rest of this year…
Fixya has just published a report on owners' most common complaints about four leading smartphones: the Galaxy S4, Moto X, iPhone 5S, and HTC One.
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) wants to introduce a common rating system to help buyers chose phones that are less damaging to the environment
Canonical is hoping to raise $32 million from enterprises and enthusiasts who are willing to pay for a limited edition Ubuntu for Android phone that has the specification of a laptop and delivers the "full desktop experience" when plugged into a big screen.
Don't be too original: a study of smartphone buyers in two English cities has found that people are more confident about their purchases when products resemble each other.
Today, Canalys predicted that a billion Android smartphones will ship in 2017, and that Microsoft's market share will grow five-fold as it closes in on Apple's iOS.
