Category: Smartphone News

Figures published by research firm Canalys on Friday show that for the first time ever, shipments of smartphones have exceeded those of PCs, a category that includes tablet computers, or “pads” as Canalys calls them.

The latest report is in from ComScore, and as you might expect, the news is sunshine and roses for the crews at Google and.

It’s a major milestone for the mobile era as smartphones top client PCs for the first time ever, according to research firm Canalys.

Even if you throw the exploding tablet market in with the staid PC market, shipments of smartphones surpassed those of “client PCs” in 2011, a milestone for the computer industry.

Bamboo has become an extremely popular choice for all sorts of products over the last few years, and the trend shows absolutely no signs of slowing down either. Thanks to 23 year.

Last year brought smartphones into the foreground. (Credit: Yang Li, via MIT) All the PCs in the world couldn’t compete with the popularity of smartphones–literally. IT research firm Canalys released its shipment estimates this morning for each country for the final quarter of 2011. When it tallied the annual numbers and did some quick cross-referencing it found vendors shipped 488 million …

There is no iPhone vs Android smartphone war. It is only Apple vs Samsung. Submitted by brian s hall on 3 February, 2012 – 13:31. Tags: smartphone wars · BGR suggests that even as the smarpthone wars jump into high gear in 2012, what …

If you bought a smartphone in 2011 — and didn’t buy a PC — you were part of a history-making trend.

Smartphone shipments overtook personal computers — including tablets, laptops, netbooks and desktops — for the first time in 2011, according to new research from Canalys.

A student from Middlesex University has designed a smartphone made from bamboo, which he plans to release in the UK and Europe later this year.

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android smartphone market share topped 47.3 percent, closing 2011 nearly 18 percentage points higher than No. 2 Apple’s iOS in th…

Comscore have released their Q4 2011 numbers for smartphone market share in the United States. Earlier reports suggested Apple would take a great chunk of the.