T-Mobile USA appears to be inching toward the launch of its LTE service, announcing this week that its Samsung Galaxy Note II device would receive an over-the-air update enabling access to LTE services.
The carrier did note that despite the OTA update, it was not...
I think it might be time for Samsung to have an intervention. This week, the consumer electronics giant unveiled its latest Galaxy smartphone, which according to my memory is the 39th iteration of that device in the past three weeks.
Samsung upped its game in the smartphone space with the unveiling of its latest Galaxy S model, the S4, which will supersede the S3 in its lineup.
The S4 includes a 5-inch Super-AMOLED screen, up to 64 gigabytes of embedded memory and 2 GB of...
Looking perhaps to ride the buzz being generated by Samsung’s expected unveiling of a new smartphone, BlackBerry and Verizon Wireless announced that the carrier would begin taking pre-orders on the latest BlackBerry Z10 device March 14, with shipments expected to begin on March 28.
The...
Samsung may have killed two birds with one stone with its investment in Japan's Sharp Corp. For $110 million, the Korean conglomerate gets a stake in a TV screen manufacturer and a relationship with one of Apple's key suppliers.
Apple's dependence on Sharp made...
Apple and Samsung continue to solidify their dominance of the smartphone market, according to the latest MobiLens report from comScore. The iPhone 5 helped Apple boost its market share to 37.8% of U.S. smartphone subscribers for the 3 months ending in January, up from...
With less than three months to go until graduation, many college students are hard at work fine tuning their resumes and scheduling job interviews. And companies from across the mobile ecosystem are busy recruiting.
"We hire a lot of people right out of college,"...
The most stunning smartphones at Mobile World Congress were not even announced at the show; both Sony and HTC unveiled their new flagship phones before the week began in Barcelona, Spain. Once the show got underway, their handsets were joined by the latest from...
Apple makes a statement each year by NOT attending Mobile World Congress, but its presence is felt in the product announcements made by its competitors. Samsung is of course Apple's top competitor in the device space, and although the Korean giant sells more smartphones...
Ericsson and SAP AG announced at this week's Mobile World Congress (MWC – check out all pieces) that they have signed an agreement to jointly market and sell cloud-based, machine-to-machine solutions and services to enterprises via operators around the globe. The solutions will...
The world's leading maker of smartphones and the world's top credit card company are teaming up. Visa says its NFC payment software will be built into all future Samsung smartphones. NFC stands for near field communication, and devices with NFC chips can communicate with...
Huawei knows its newest LTE smartphone is one of many new products coming this week at the Mobile World event, but the Chinese giant seems confident that nothing coming up will be faster than the Ascend P2. The company says the phone can download...
HTC was not shy about using words like "reinvent" and "new standard" when introducing its new HTC One smartphone. "Although smartphones are one of the main ways we stay in touch with the people and information we care about, conventional designs have failed to...
BlackBerry (BBRY) just can't catch a break. It's long-awaited Z10 smartphone is finally hitting the market, just as Samsung, now the world's leading maker of mobile devices, readies its own enterprise solutions.
"Checks indicate Samsung is preparing an aggressive push into the enterprise segment and...
Now this week we hear that Apple is in fact looking to expand into a market outside its perceived wheelhouse, but instead of cameras, it’s looking at the
When the world's largest mobile phone maker decided to open an office in the heart of Silicon Valley, Samsung did not set out to hire mechanical engineers or product designers. The company's Open Innovation Center will focus on software, and is actively recruiting developers...
For a couple of weeks now I have had a Samsung Galaxy Camera device on my desk eyeballing me with its over-sized lens, a gift from Samsung in order to conduct a product review. Now, traditionally I have
Device demos from CES 2013 were our top videos for January. Google's Nexus 4, Samsung's Galaxy Note 10.1, ZTE's Grand S, and Broadcom's LTE modem were among the most popular, as was Broadcom's demonstration of consumer products that use its NFC technology.
1. Samsung Galaxy...
IDC's fourth quarter mobile phone tracker shows the top five vendors with almost two thirds of the market. Samsung has consolidated its lead with a 29% market share, up from 22.5% in the year-ago quarter. Apple's share has slipped from 23% to 21.8%. ...
It was a record-breaking year for smartphones. Device makers shipped more than 700 million units worldwide in 2012, the largest number to date, according to a recent report from Strategy Analytics.
The top seller, Samsung, led the field with its own record-breaking numbers. Boosted by...
Samsung's Galaxy Note 10.1 is distinguished from the iPad by two key features: a smart stylus and a split screen app that enables users to multitask without opening and closing apps. At CES 2013, Samsung showed off both these features, highlighting ways that the...
Samsung says its flagship Galaxy S III smartphone has been selling at rate of 200,000 a day, pushing sales of the company's Galaxy line of smartphones past the 100 million mark. The Korean conglomerate says it has sold more than 40 million Galaxy S...
As has been an industry standard for some time, the new year kicked off with the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas where companies in the technology space unveiled their newest gadgets,
