Smartphones

The latest report on "smartphone OS sales share Q3 2014" by Kantar Worldpanel demonstrate Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) owned Android’s dominance across all major European markets. Android is leading the European smartphone OS market with a whopping 73.9% share. Apple...

Managing to defend its throne as the world’s best global brand, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) gave the other contenders namely International Business Machine Corp (NASDAQ:IBM), Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) a run for their money. Despite tremendous increase...

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (KRX:005930) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) have had held the top notch positions in the smartphone market for quite a long time. Where Samsung is struggling to compete with domestic and Chinese vendors who are locking up...

After recurring failures during previous demonstrations of Project Ara prototype Smartphone - quite an ambitious project from Google Inc. (NADAQ:GOOGL) - the latest prototype seems to have created quite a buzz in the industry. While the first prototype reportedly...

Speculation is rife in the industry as to why Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is not making Android L updates available for any other Nexus devices. Android 5.0 or Lollipop was launched on Tuesday and is available on Nexus 9, Nexus...

Rate of ballooning of the mobile handset industry had long back convinced industry experts of the future it beholds. Latest numbers reveal an even more interesting tidbit of this competitive market. The latest report on Mobile handset shipments in...

Arch rivals Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) bring no more surprises with their competitive market figures. The leaders in the revenue and mobile traffic don't seem to deter from their positions. As per the latest Q3 2014 released by Opera Mediaworks, Android...

A strong competition from Chinese smartphone firms to the market leaders has been met with the latter putting up a strong fight. As a result, global smartphone shipments have hit new peaks. The new data from Strategy Analytics shows...

Global smartphone shipments have exceeded the 300 million mark for the second consecutive quarter, according to preliminary data released by the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker for Q3 2014. A total of 327.6 million units of...

Where on one hand, smartphone companies are jotting down their line of strategies to compete in the tablet market, Gartner is out with its Q3 results which may upset the decision-making bodies in the company boardrooms. The report estimates...