Tag: Smartphone

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 Android remained the dominant platform in the U.S. last quarter, even as Apple gained ground in the market thanks to the iPhone 4S, according to ComScore.

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.

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

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

Smartphone usage in the Philippines will rise sharply in 2012 given the growth momentum established late last year, foresees Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart). According to Smart chief wireless advisor Orlando B. Vea, the company has seen a doubling of the number of subscribers using smartphones in the last four months of 2011 due to the growing demand of mobile Internet and increased …

According to a recent Pew survey, people are using their smartphones more than ever while shopping in brick-and-mortar stores.

More bad news for bricks and mortar retailers who don’t want to be just a showroom for online retailers: another study confirms that the majority of shoppers won’t leave home without their price-checking smartphone in tow.

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

Smartphone vendors concerned about the strong performance of the iPhone 4S are to wait until the second quarter of 2012 to launch new handsets. That’s according to Taiwan-based sources in the smartphone supply chain quoted by Digitimes , who say that Samsung, HTC, Nokia and LG lack the confidence to launch their new models at the moment after record sales of the iPhone last month and the first …

Hy-Vee, Wal-Mart, and Dillon’s all offer smartphone apps SPRINGFIELD, Mo — When you go to the store, know what you want but don’t know where to find it–there’s an app for that. Hy-Vee launched a smartphone app that makes shopping much easier.

stole the smartphone sales crown from Samsung during the fourth quarter of 2011, research firm Juniper Research reported Monday. While Samsung has cranked out a spate of new handsets last year????kept up, in part, by chopping the price of older models. cut the price of the iPhone 4 to $100 with a two-year contract, and …