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

Sprint today announced the ZTE Optik, a 7-inch Android tablet that will be available starting Sunday for $99.99 with a two-year service agreement.

Google Android continued to be the most popular smartphone platform with 47.3 percent market share, up 2.5 percentage points from September. Apple took the second position, growing 2.2 percentage points to grab 29.6 …

STMicroelectronics hopes to make blurry low-light images from smartphone cameras a thing of the past with a new chip designed to boost light output from LED-based flashes.

Exceeds Earnings Targets, Raises OutlookThe semiconductor maker last night reported adjusted earnings of $0.97 per share for its fiscal first quarter, easily beating the consensus forecast of $0.89 EPS …

A couple of Android smartphones made by LG have been discovered. Known as the LG P880 and P700, both handsets run Ice Cream Sandwich, and the chances of seeing the two at MWC seem high…

Android tablet makers face a no-win situation competing with the iPad. Pricing is only one area that gives them trouble. Apple’s profitability is the biggest problem competitors face.

Research in Motion’s incipient BlackBerry 10 smartphone, code-named London, has a thin and long design, according a photo obtained by CrackBerry.com.

(Credit: Apple) Apple won the smartphone wars last quarter, but Samsung was close behind in second place, according to Juniper Research. Buoyed by the iPhone 4S, Apple sold 37 million iPhones during the December quarter, giving the company a 25 percent share of the market. Though Samsung lost its top perch, the Korean handset maker still managed to carve out a 21.7 percent share thanks to …

A company called Flurry looked at Android tablet sales over the holiday season in 2011, and found the Asus Transformer lost out to the Kindle Fire in the best selling Android tablet category. Flurry looked at which tablets spent the most time in a series of apps the company is involved in, and determined the Amazon Kindle Fire was the top dog in the rapidly growing Android tablet space.

A survey found that 75 percent of respondents use their phone when answering nature’s call.

After losing market leadership in the third quarter, Apple returned to the No. 1 rank in global smartphone shipments in the fourth quarter as consumers flocked to buy the newly introduced iPhone 4S.