Amazon announces 4G phone sale for Memorial Day weekend
Amazon is known for offering deep smartphone discounts on a normal day, so when the retail giant announces a special holiday sale, prospective smartphone buyers would be …
Smartphones
HTC to introduce range of new tablets; NFC smartphone coming this year
HTC isn’t just planning one or two successors to its first Android tablet — the HTC Flyer — instead the company plans to deploy an …
250,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets sold to date, RBC says
RBC Capital Markets Managing Director Mike Abramsky believes RIM has sold approximately 250,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets to date. In a note to investors on Wednesday, …
Nokia may consider sale of phone unit to Microsoft
According to industry insider Eldar Murtazin, Nokia is set to begin discussing the possibility selling its cell phone business to Microsoft. The blogger, who has …
HTC’s April revenue balloons 113% to hit record high
HTC’s revenue in April 2011 hit a record high, Taiwan Economic News reports. The publication cites a financial statement from HTC in claiming the smartphone …
Windows Phone will beat Android in 2013, analyst explains
Late last week, BGR wrote about a recent report suggesting Microsoft’s share of the global smartphone market would overtake Google’s share in 2015, and Windows …
Android Ice Cream Sandwich launching in Q4
Google is on stage and just announced that the next major Android OS, Ice Cream Sandwich, will launch in Q4 of this year. It will …
HP launches ‘DataPass’ prepaid data service, competes directly with carriers
HP on Monday unveiled a new service that will push the scope of its business wider still. The PC giant has just launched “DataPass,” a …
MKM: Motorola may still sell 500,000 Verizon phones in Q2 despite DROID BIONIC delay
MKM Partners analyst Terry Kuittinen on Friday issued a note to investors reiterating a Buy rating on Motorola Mobility stock, setting the firm’s price target …
Windows Phone sales to top Android in 2015; smartphone share of global phone sales to double
Smartphones’ share of the global cell phone market is poised to explode over the next four years, according to market research firm Pyramid Research. The …
Canalys: Android dominance grows as Q1 market share climbs to 35%
Market research and analysis firm Canalys on Wednesday released its global country-level smartphone market share data for the first quarter of 2011. According to the …
AT&T and Samsung holding press event on Thursday
There isn’t too much to go off of the invite we have just received, but there is no doubt AT&T and Samsung will be out …
IDC: mobile phone market grew 20% in Q1 fueled by smartphones
The mobile phone market grew almost 20% year-over-year during the first quarter of 2011, IDC has stated. The reason? Smartphones, smartphones, and more smartphones. The …
Nokia reports Q1 earnings; smartphone share dips, profit dips more
Nokia on Thursday reported earnings for the first quarter of 2011, which saw the Finnish giant’s smartphone market share dip below 30% for the first …
Verizon Wireless posts strong Q1; churn down, data revenues up, 2.2M iPhones activated [Updated]
The first-quarter financial figures for Verizon Wireless were not all that surprising. The nation’s largest wireless carrier was widely expected to post strong quarterly results, …
Sony Ericsson reports Q1 2011 results; profit cut in half on slow sales
Sony Ericsson on Tuesday reported its earnings for the first quarter of 2011, during which profit fell sharply on slowed device shipments. While smartphones made …
Daily Android activations surpass 350,000 mark
In case you haven’t heard, Android is kind of a big deal. Some research firms say it’s already the world’s top smartphone operating system, having …
Best Buy eyes mobile, plans 600-800 new Best Buy Mobile shops
Best Buy on Thursday intends to reveal several aspects of its long-term strategy to drive its business forward. A key part of that strategy, according …
Moody's cuts Nokia credit rating, points to 'weakened market position'
Following a rating review initiated on January 28th, Moody’s on Thursday lowered Nokia’s senior debt rating from A2 to A3 and cut its short-term debt …
Acer to focus on value, innovation instead of volume
Acer appears to have taken company founder and former CEO Stan Shih’s recent advice quite seriously. Late last month following news that Acer had lowered …
HTC market cap to hit all-time high, surpassing $35B this year
HTC’s market capitalization is expected to soon surpass NT$1 trillion according to a report on Wednesday from Taiwan Economic News. The company’s market cap recently …
AT&T confirms early upgrade price changes for iPhone 4, other smartphones
AT&T has confirmed to BGR that it has made changes to early upgrade pricing for its smartphones. The changes impact customers who wish to upgrade …
Android loses more ‘open’ cred as Google fights fragmentation
According to a report filed by Bloomberg Businessweek, Google is beginning to shorten the proverbial leash that Android licensees are currently attached to. Citing “dozens” …
Ovum: Android to dominate smartphone growth, Windows Phone will beat BlackBerry
In a press release on Friday, research firm Ovum stated that the smartphone market will double by 2016, led by devices running Google’s Android operating …
PlayStation games coming to Tegra-based, Android devices
According to information posted in NVIDIA’s Tegra Zone Android application, Sony PlayStation games will be making their way onto Tegra-based, Android devices in the not-to-distant …
Berg: Smartphone shipments grew 74% in 2010
According to new data issued by wireless market intelligence firm Berg Insight on Thursday, the global smartphone market grew by nearly three-quarters in 2010. Global …
Sprint preparing massive CTIA unveiling: Nexus S 4G, EVO 3D, and EVO View
U.S. wireless carrier Sprint was noticeably absent from both CES and MWC, but if this latest rumor comes to fruition, we think we know why. According to …
Google announces ‘One Pass’ subscription solution for publishers [video]
Just one day after Apple made its App Store subscription service available to publishers, Google has already responded by announcing a similar service for its …
Next version of Google’s Android OS discussed at MWC
A Google executive on Wednesday shared preliminary details surrounding the company’s next version of its Android operating system. In an interview with Phone Scoop at …
Official: Nokia to adopt Windows Phone as smartphone operating system [live video]
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s official. In a press release today, Microsoft and Nokia announced “plans to form a broad strategic partnership that would use their …
