Handsets Category

Global Sales of Mobile Phones Dropped in First Quarter of 2012
May 16th 2012 - 14:57 GMT
Worldwide sales of mobile phones to end users reached 419.1 million units in the first quarter of 2012, a 2 per cent decline from the first quarter of 2011, according to Gartner. This is the first time since the second quarter of 2009 that the market exhibited a decline. ...more

HTC's Latest Smartphones Delayed by US Customs Officials
May 16th 2012 - 11:12 GMT
Taiwan's HTC has confirmed that US Customs officials have delayed clearance for its new smartphones are part of a dispute over patent infringements....more

LG Develops New User Interface Options for Android 4.0 Smartphones
May 16th 2012 - 10:34 GMT
LG Electronics says that it is introducing a new User Interface (UI) for its newest Android Ice Cream Sandwich devices, aptly named Optimus UI 3.0....more

Samsung Selects Amalfi Semiconductor for Multiple Handset Platforms
May 16th 2012 - 08:09 GMT
Amalfi Semiconductor has announced that its AM7808 CMOS transmit module has been selected by Samsung for multiple high-volume 2G handset platforms targeting emerging markets....more

Android Took Half of All Smartphone Sales in the UK Over Past 12 Weeks
May 15th 2012 - 13:43 GMT
The latest smartphone sales data for the UK from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech shows Android retained its number one position in the latest 12 weeks, with 50.1% share, up from 44.6% a year ago. HTC and Samsung are dominating Android handset market sales, holding 86% share between them....more

Nokia Shows Off Two Basic Mobile Phones
May 15th 2012 - 10:04 GMT
Nokia has today unveiled two new basic mobile phone handsets - the Nokia 110 and Nokia 112....more

LG Starts Shipping Optimus 4X HD Smartphone to Europe
May 15th 2012 - 09:49 GMT
LG has announced that the Optimus 4X HD, which was first introduced at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in February, will be available next month in key markets starting in Western Europe....more

Samsung Aims to Capture Third of Chinese Smartphone Market
May 14th 2012 - 20:03 GMT
Samsung is aiming to capture over a third of China's smartphone market, the senior vice-president of Samsung China has said....more

Marketing Campaign Boosts Samsung Phone Sales in Bangladesh
May 14th 2012 - 15:54 GMT
Samsung saw sales of its handsets in Bangladesh rise by 10 percent to 120,000 units during the first quarter of this year compared to the previous three months following an aggressive marketing campaign in the country....more

Apple Drops 4G Claim from New IPad Following Complaints
May 14th 2012 - 11:48 GMT
Apple has bowed to regulatory pressures and will no longer market its new iPad as a 4G capable device in either Australia or the UK....more

Huawei Expects Revenues of $9 Billion from Mobile and Smartphone Sales This Year
May 14th 2012 - 11:17 GMT
China's Huawei expects sales of its consumer devices - mobile and smartphones - to reach $9 billion this year, rising from $6.8 billion in 2011....more

The Top-10 Selling Phones for April 2012
May 11th 2012 - 10:35 GMT
The Swedish manufacturer of carrying cases for portable electronics, Krusell, has released its "Top 10"-list for April 2012. ...more

Nokia's Lumia Smartphone Selling "Reasonably Well" at AT&T Stores
May 10th 2012 - 18:38 GMT
Nokia's Lumia 900 smartphone is selling reasonably well in the USA, a report on visits to AT&T stores has found. In fact, the handset is coming second only to Apple's iPhone in the sales charts....more

Certification Standard Announced for Recycling Mobile Phones
May 10th 2012 - 08:53 GMT
A trade association for handset refurbishment companies, the Device Renewal Forum (DRF) has announced a new Certification Mark to identify renewed devices that comply with its standards and acceptance criteria....more

RIM Announces Approval of BlackBerry 7 Smartphones by USA Department of Defense
May 9th 2012 - 17:35 GMT
Research In Motion (RIM) today announced that the USA's Department of Defence has granted approval for the use of BlackBerry 7 smartphones....more

Green Handset Shipments to Reach Almost 400 Million by 2017
May 9th 2012 - 15:19 GMT
A new report from analyst firm Juniper Research forecasts that green handset shipments will reach 392 million by 2017 -- more than ten times the number the company expects to be shipped in 2012: 31 million. ...more

Research In Motion Shows off a New BlackBerry Smartphone
May 9th 2012 - 11:49 GMT
Research In Motion (RIM) has announced a new smartphone that it says is aimed at "socially-connected" customers....more

Kyocera Shows Off Waterproof Android Smartphone for USA Market
May 8th 2012 - 13:55 GMT
Kyocera Communications has shown off two new Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) smartphones: the waterproof Kyocera Hydro and QWERTY-plus-touchscreen Kyocera Rise....more

Red Bend Software Works with Alcatel-Lucent on LTE Device Management
May 7th 2012 - 16:18 GMT
Red Bend Software has announced that its drop-in device management client -- vDirect Mobile 5.0 -- is now interoperable with the Motive Mobile Device Management solution from Alcatel-Lucent....more

Fujitsu Turns Any Smartphone into 3D Video Recording Camera
May 7th 2012 - 10:54 GMT
Japan's Fujitsu Laboratories says that it has developed a hardware/software combination that can be attached to any cameraphone and enable it to record stereoscopic 3D images....more

Panasonic to Shift Li-Ion Battery Production to China
May 7th 2012 - 10:43 GMT
Japan's Panasonic is reported to be planning to close its Kaizuka plant in Osaka Prefecture and shift its Lithium-Ion battery production to Suzhou, China....more

Smartphone Shipments to Reach 1.7 Billion in 2017 and Android to Dominate As OS
May 4th 2012 - 08:49 GMT
Predictions show Android as the dominant operating system over the next five years as handset vendors rush to make it their primary smartphone platform....more

Samsung Shows Off It 3rd-Generation Galaxy S Smartphone
May 3rd 2012 - 23:38 GMT
Samsung has shown off its expected third generation Galaxy smartphone - the Galaxy S III. The Samsung Galaxy S III is powered by Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, and comes with a 4.8 inch HD Super AMOLED display, an 8MP camera and a 1.9MP front camera....more

Dual-Core Processors in Nearly 20% of Smartphones; Samsung Takes 60% Volume Share
May 3rd 2012 - 10:59 GMT
Dual-core processors, which power ultra high-end smartphones, gained strong traction in 2011, accounting for nearly 20 percent of total smartphone applications processors shipped, ...more

China Overtakes USA As the Largest Smartphone Market
May 2nd 2012 - 18:07 GMT
Global shipments of smartphones in the first three months of this year grew 45% year on year to 146 million units, but significant country and regional differences were apparent, according to Canalys....more

Nokia to Start Sales of 41-Megapixel Cameraphone This Month
May 2nd 2012 - 10:01 GMT
Nokia has announced that it's 41-megapixel camera phone, the Nokia 808 PureView will start being sold in select markets later this month....more

Android Market Share Continues to Rise in USA Smartphone Market
May 1st 2012 - 20:21 GMT
Google Android continued to grow its share in the U.S. smartphone market, accounting for 51 percent of smartphone subscribers, while Apple captured more than 30 percent....more

A Bulletproof Case for Apple's IPhone
May 1st 2012 - 13:23 GMT
A Japanese firm says that it has developed an iPhone case that is designed to protect the smartphone from gunshots....more

Apple Facing New Investigation into IPad 4G Claims in the UK
May 1st 2012 - 09:55 GMT
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is reported to have widened its investigation into claims that Apple's latest iPad is a 4G device, as none of the UK networks support LTE services at the moment....more

Samsung Overtakes Apple As Top Smartphone Vendor - According to IDC
May 1st 2012 - 09:03 GMT
The worldwide smartphone market grew 42.5% year over year in 1Q12, as Samsung overtook Apple for the smartphone leadership position. ...more

LG Goes Luke-Warm on Windows Phone Operating System
April 30th 2012 - 19:20 GMT
LG is not likely to be manufacturing another Microsoft based smartphone in the near future, although it will continue to research the Windows Phone based operating system....more

Nokia Close to Selling Vertu Luxury Phone Subsidiary
April 30th 2012 - 11:46 GMT
Nokia is reported to be close to signing a deal that would see it sell off its luxury phone subsidiary, Vertu to the private equity group, Permira....more

Apple's Co-Founder Praises Nokia's Latest Smartphone
April 29th 2012 - 14:25 GMT
Apple's co-founder, Steve Wozniak has sparked considerable tech chatter after he commented in an interview that he is rather keen on Nokia's latest smartphone....more

Samsung and Apple Capture 55 Percent of Global Smartphone Shipments in Q1 2012
April 27th 2012 - 13:28 GMT
According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartphone shipments grew 41 percent annually to reach 145 million units in the first quarter of 2012. Samsung and Apple together captured more than half of global smartphone shipments for the first time ever....more

Q1 Handset Shipments: Apple is Pushing Competitors into APAC for the Slaughter
April 27th 2012 - 11:31 GMT
Aside from Apple, handsets OEMs that are not based in APAC such as RIM and Nokia are quickly losing ground to their APAC based competitors as companies such as ZTE and Huawei continue to move up the value chain...more

Nokia Loses Top Spot As World's Largest Phone Manufacturer - to Samsung
April 27th 2012 - 08:31 GMT
Samsung overtook Nokia in the fiurst three months of this year to become the world's largest cellphone brand for the first time, according to IHS iSuppli. However, Samsung remained in second place in the smartphone segment of the cellphone market, behind Apple....more

In Japan, Smartphones Surpass Feature Phones Among Newly Acquired Devices for First Time Ever
April 24th 2012 - 08:20 GMT
A survey of over 4,000 Japanese mobile phone subscribers reports that Sharp is country's most popular manufacturer, with a 23.5% market share. Google's Android platform accounted for the majority of smartphone market at 61.4 percent, followed by Apple with 34.2 percent of the market....more

Qualcomm 28nm Chip Found in the HTC Smartphone but Not As Power Efficient As Expected
April 24th 2012 - 08:03 GMT
The HTC One S is a recently launched HSPA phone running Android 4.0.3, and its performance comes from Qualcomm's first 28nm processor - the MSM8260A, which sports an Adreno 225 GPU core, according to analysis by ABI Research....more

Nokia Launches New Mobile Web Browser for Series 40 Symbian Phones
April 23rd 2012 - 14:09 GMT
Nokia has today announced the availability of Nokia Browser 2.0, a major update dedicated to Nokia Series 40 devices. ...more

Nokia Starts Construction of a New Handset Factory in Vietnam
April 23rd 2012 - 09:54 GMT
Located in Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP) in Bac Ninh province, the Nokia Vietnam manufacturing facility is being developed on an area of 17 hectares....more