Smartphone

HTC Corp. closed another fantastic quarter with profits up $102.9% year over year and device shipments up 24.8% from the previous quarter and up 123.7% from the year-ago period. The …

The Palo Alto-based company develops biofeedback apps for smartphones, including its Instant Heart Rate, which lets users monitor their heart rate by holding their finger over a phone’s camera for …

The growth of smartphones is indeed an international phenomenon as highlighted by Japan’s largest carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. (DCM) reporting a surge in net profits it attributed to the device …

Epocrates has won over nearly half of the nation’s doctors for its free smartphone apps that lets them look up information on drug dosing, interactions and insurance coverage while seeing …

Almost everything is up at Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI) except for profits. The company swung to a $56 million loss in the last quarter, after recording $80 million in …

Google’s Android operating system now makes up a whopping 39 percent of the U.S. smartphone market according to a new report from market research outfit Nielson. Google, claims the report, …

Samsung seems to be getting ahead of itself in the smartphone race, with talk of the Samsung Galaxy S 3 before the Galaxy S 2 has even been officially released …

Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) continued its operating turn around during the second quarter, but those improvements appeared to have come at a cost.The carrier managed to add nearly 1.1 million …

Apple is getting closer to offering its iPhone through China’s largest mobile carrier, state-owned China Mobile, further opening a vast market and spurring what could be the next growth catalyst …

Smartphone sales may be set to top 420 million units in 2011, but some handset makers are poised to do far better than others when it comes to high-end devices …

Stratos BV, provider of mobile and fixed-site remote communications solutions, announced it has purchased most of the operational assets of Blue Ocean Wireless Ltd. As part of the acquisition, Stratos …

LG Electronics Inc. reported an 87% decline in net profit in the recently closed quarter as mobile handset sales continue to falter. The South Korean conglomerate’s mobile communications division posted …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. …

T-Mobile USA announced the upcoming availability of the new HTC Wildfire S smartphone recently. The device is a compact Android-powered handset built with simplicity in mind and is expected to …

CNN | July 25, 2011 | Catriona Davies Their country may be struggling to emerge from chaos, but a new generation of young Egyptian entrepreneurs are already forging a high-tech …

CNN | July 25, 2011 | Catriona Davies Their country may be struggling to emerge from chaos, but a new generation of young Egyptian entrepreneurs are already forging a high-tech …