Smartphone

Emerging markets will drive growth in worldwide smartphone sales in the years ahead, International Data Corporation (IDC) said in a recent survey entitled the Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. According …

Qualcomm and Telefónica announced an agreement focused on fostering the adoption of 3G and smartphones throughout Latin America. Under terms of the agreement, both companies will collaborate in an effort …

If you’ve made it through a year without losing your phone, you’re beating the odds. That’s according to statistics from the mobile security experts at Lookout, who say their phone-finding …

Almost one in three Americans now uses a smartphone, and 3 out of 4 have at least one mobile device. According to ComScore’s quarterly report on the mobile phone industry, …

BARCELONA, Spain – Emerging markets and the carriers that serve those areas took center stage, literally, during day two of this week’s Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain, as …

Following up on its pre-release of fourth quarter results last month, Leap Wireless rolled out the rest of the numbers showing improved financial results to go along with positive operational …

The mobile line penetration in Ecuador is 108%, with 8.4% of people in the country having a smartphone, according to a report by the Ecuadorian Minister of Telecommunications and Information …

Mobile-health smartphone applications will take off in 2012, reaching $1.3 billion, according to a recent survey by market research and consultancy firm Research2guidance. The group estimates the current market size …

While worldwide mobile data traffic is expected to increase 18-fold over the next five years, reaching 10.8 exabytes per month by 2016, in Brazil the rate is slightly higher with …

Ever get a feeling of déjà vu? The longer I spend in the wireless industry (2012 will be 20 years), the more it seems that history repeats itself. This has become apparent recently as we have been looking at the developments in the smartphone market.

Almost half of all Americans now own a smartphone, and the number of smartphone owners is rising every day. But carriers are struggling with the cost of subsidizing smartphone sales …

Nokia on Wednesday announced planned changes at its smartphone manufacturing factories in Komarom (Hungary – 2300 jobs), Reynosa (Mexico – 700 jobs) and Salo (Finland – 1000 jobs), thereby impacting 4000 jobs by the end of 2012.

Smartphones are now the majority of mobile phones in countries such as the United States, and at the end of 2011, nearly 15% of U.S. consumers went online using a tablet,

Not sure which model to pick next time you upgrade your smartphone? Your carrier may soon let you “try before you buy” by leasing you a smartphone. TMNG Global (TMNG), …

The case for deploying smaller cell configurations – such as picocells, microcells and femtocells – to supplement traditional macro-cell-network architectures, both for LTE and existing 3G networks, is becoming more compelling as traditional macro cells will soon not be able to cope with traffic demand in urban areas.

Device subsidies associated with the launch of Apple’s latest iPhone at the beginning of the fourth quarter had a pronounced impact at Verizon Communications (VZ) with the company just missing …

Shares of Nokia bounced back today after a steep sell- off yesterday on news that its orders to chip supplier ST-Ericsson were sluggish. “The revenues of Nokia have collapsed and …

Samsung Electronics Thursday announced that it has started producing embedded multi-chip package (eMCP) memory for use in the rapidly expanding market segment for entry-to mid-level smartphones.

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As we turn the page into 2012, we believe it is an opportune time to offer our own version of a Top 10 list to take a page out of Mr. Letterman’s playbook.

AT&T Mobility (T) stirred up the market late yesterday announcing changes to its mobile data plans that increases both the cost and yield of those packages. The carrier said that …

During the last two years we’ve seen an increase in attacks on smartphones and mobile devices. We’ve run across rootkits, botnets and other malware. Attackers have moved on from simple destructive malware to spyware and malware that makes them money.