Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has released its fourth-quarter financials, posting its first quarterly profit drop in two years as it lost ground on rivals Apple and Samsung in the smartphone...

Read More: HTC’s Q4 smartphone sales fall as profit drops for the first time in 2 years

Oh memories. There's nothing quite like writing something like this where I get to walk down the path of the past and remind myself of what it was like the...

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Korean electronics giant Samsung believes it will surpass internal sales estimates for its Android and Windows Phone handsets in 2011, ending the year with a flourish as its competition begins...

Read More: Samsung: We have ‘high hopes’ on beating smartphone sales estimates in 2011

China has overtaken the US to become the world's largest smartphone market for the first time, according to new research, reported by Bloomberg. Data from Strategy Analytics shows that, over the last...

Read More: Smartphone market in China now bigger than the US, says report

Smartphone sales set Nokia’s cash registers ringing this past Deepawali in India, with the company reportedly having sold about ₹ 400 crore’s ($81 million) worth of phones. The report comes...

Read More: Nokia, other companies see smartphone sales boost during holidays in India

Nokia has launched the Lumia 800, the flagship Windows Mobile smartphone it hopes will revive its fortunes in the mobile market. The device, which was unveiled at Nokia World today,...

Read More: Nokia launches Lumia 800 “the first real Windows Mobile smartphone”

Even with Ice Cream Sandwich on the way, Android Gingerbread devices are still as hot as ever. That said, there are way too many Android handsets on the market to parse through each and every one, but that's why we're here. We've looked through all the latest Android smartphones to give you our brief thoughts on the pick of the litter. These aren't full-length reviews, but rather a way for you to easily compare what we think to be the most full-featured Android handsets released this month. Hope [...]

Read More: Android Smartphone Round-Up: October Edition

Since Samsung unveiled its new dual-core 5.3-inch Galaxy Note Android device at Berlin's IFA event, the Korean manufacturer has been quiet on its plans for the device, teasing November launch...

Read More: Samsung’s new Galaxy Note advert: Is it a tablet or a smartphone? [Video]

Source: Nielsenwire.Nielsenwire combed through the reports the firm produced during 2011 in the areas of social, local and mobile and produced a infographic they call:Infographic: The Most Valuable Digital ConsumersHere's a summary of Nielsenwire's mobile findings:- 38% of Americans own a smartphone
- 66% of the time on a smartphone is spent using apps
- 35 is the average number of smartphone apps installed
- 27% looked for coupons or deals related to an ad seen on a smartphone or [...]

Read More: Nielsen: 44% of Smartphone Owners Visit Social Network Sites

As expected, Windows Phone 7.5, aka Mango, started being pushed out to AT&T customers today. Unfortunately, if you are on a carrier other than AT&T it is currently not known when the update might be pushed to your phone.


Read More: The Smartphone Upgrades Have Begun: AT&T Releases Windows Phone 7.5

Fav.tv is an online TV guide site that just launched both on the web and with free iOS and Android apps. Unlike other TV apps that follow Foursquare's check-in model, Fav.tv focuses on making it easier for one to follow their favorite programs.


Read More: Fav.tv Makes It Easy To Follow TV Shows On Your Smartphone

Image courtesy of TripitAt the beginning of the summer I wrote an article on five Android apps that I find most useful for travelers. Top on my list is TripIt, which retrieves and stores travel itineraries. A new Android version of TripIt has been released with user interface updates so that more information displays on the screen.


Read More: TripIt Updates Android App And Shares Information About Smartphone Travelers

Pew Internet released summary information from a survey that tells us how adults in the U.S. use mobile and social location based services. The highlighted statistic, however, literally only tells part of the more complex story.28% of American adults use mobile and social location-based servicesPew Internet differentiated between all cell phone owners and smartphone owners as well as all adults in general. Here, I just focus on data from phone using adults. As you might guess, smartphone users c [...]

Read More: 14% of Smartphone Users Auto-location-tag Status Updates

Are you a frequent user of smartphone check-in services like Foursquare or Gowalla? I don't use them because personally, I don't want people to know where I am. I guess I like going incognito. Come to find out, I'm not alone. A recent study by Pew shows that only 12% of smartphone users use theses ...

Read More: Only 12 Percent of Smartphone Users Access Check-In Services

A new "fast casual" restaurant has opened in San Francisco that takes advantage of smartphones to provide fast delivery of grilled cheese sandwiches. The Melt, who's owned by Jonathan Kaplan, the man who brought us the Flip camera, has just opened. You can order your meals ahead of time on a smartphone, but they aren't made until you arrive at the restaurant.


Read More: SmartPhone To Speed Up Grilled Cheese Orders

Back in spring, we've spent a few posts covering the Medias N-04C from NEC Casio Mobile , an Android handset the company calls the "world's slimmest smartphone". Being just 7.7mm thin, it beats the Galaxy S II, for example, and at 105g, it's very light, too.

Announced by NEC Casio in February this year, the handset was selling well when it hit the Japanese market a few weeks later (to date, 500,000 units have been sold).

Read More: NEC Medias: Report Says World’s Slimmest Smartphone Is On The Way To The US

Electronista doesn't have to work too hard to convince me that mobile phone companies' wireless data plans charge way too much for people who do not even come close to their plan's monthly data quota. Here, they report on a study by ValidasStudy: tiered data plans still unfair for many subscribers (Electronista)Are You Leaving Data On The Table With Your Smartphone Plan? (Validas)Two-thirds of the way through my billing cycle, I have only used 350.78MB of the 4GB available in my plan. This is de [...]

Read More: Whose Smartphone Customers Use the Most Data Per Month? AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile or Verizon?

Android has outnumbered the sales of iPhone for the first time in Australia. During the last 12 weeks Android accounted for 42.9% of the total smartphones sold in Australia compared to 37.2% of Apple’s iPhone, according to new figures revealed by Kantar’s ComTech WorldPanel.If we consider only the last four weeks, Android stands on 54% of the smartphones sale (compared to 29 per cent for Apple). This gives a clear indication of Android’s increasing dominance in Australian market synonymous to th [...]

Read More: Android Beats iPhone in Australian Smartphone Market

Samsung Focus.Earlier this month, I noted that Scott Adams, Dilbert creator and cartoonist, took up a challenge from Microsoft’s Brandon Watson (Director for developer experience of Windows Phone 7) to try out a Windows Phone 7 device he (Brandon) would provide for Scott to compare with the smartphones he had complained about in his blog.


Read More: Scott Adams’ (Dilbert creator) Smartphone Challenge Winner Declared. And, It Is… Windows Phone 7

Xiaomi, a Chinese mobile phone manufacturer, has launched its first Android-based smartphone that relies on MIUI OS. The MIUI ROM is a translated Chinese customized version of Android 2.3.5 designed to give a feeling of iOS or Samsung’s TouchWiz, Android platform is becoming increasingly popular in the competitive Asian smartphone market.

Read More: Chinese Mobile Phone Company Xiaomi Launches First Android-Based MIUI Smartphone