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That’s the same price as a certain tablet with a 7-inch screen. This one’s a refurb, but it’s also a powerhouse. While supplies last!

HandAble lets you cling to your smartphone for dear life. (Credit: HandAble) As smartphones get smaller, flatter, sleeker, and shinier, they also get harder to hold onto. The HandAble holder is one way to avoid developing a smartphone death grip. The accessory market is a crowded one, but HandAble is just clever enough and simple enough to warrant a look. It attaches to the back of the phone and …

According to the latest report published by Nielsen, 1 in 2 mobile subscribers owns a smartphone of some kind and those smartphone owners average 41 apps per device.

The company is reportedly considering bringing its Cloud Smart Terminal platform to Windows Phone 7 and iOS too, though it’s not clear how amenable Apple would be. Read this blog post by Don Reisinger on Mobile.

(Credit: CNET) Summer smartphone season kicks off this month with CTIA in New Orleans, but the big phone makers have already started revealing the touch-screen goodies they hope will become your latest addiction. I sifted through the recently announced devices and a few that we’re still expecting to try and picked the ones most likely to be remembered four months from now — either as a mega …

(Credit: NPD Group) Android has staged a healthy lead over Apple’s iOS as the smartphone wars continue. Looking at the first quarter of the year, NPD Group pegged Android’s U.S. market share at 61 percent, a jump over the 49 percent recorded in last year’s fourth quarter. On the flip side, iOS lost ground with a 29 percent market share, down from 41 percent during 2011′s final quarter. Apple’s …

A list of phones by carrier and when each will get its upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich.

According to research firm IDC, Android-based devices saw a “steep” decline in shipments last quarter, but Apple’s iPad was riding high.

(Credit: Josh Miller/CNET) Smartphone shipments are expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate of 24.9 percent over the next five years, according to research firm Ovum. With that kind of growth, the firm expects total smartphone shipments to hit 1.7 billion units by 2017 , easily outpacing the 488 million devices that hit store shelves in 2011. And as more devices ship worldwide over …

(Credit: Josh Miller/CNET) Smartphone shipments are expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate of 24.9 percent over the next five years, according to research firm Ovum. With that kind of growth, the firm expects total smartphone shipments to hit 1.7 billion units by 2017 , easily outpacing the 488 million devices that hit store shelves in 2011. And as more devices ship worldwide over …

Company scores 29.1 percent of the worldwide smartphone market last quarter and easily outpaces Apple’s 24.2 percent market share, IDC says.

Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet has not only become the retailer’s No. 1 selling item, but it’s also taken more than half of the entire Android tablet market.

Two-thirds of mobile consumers draw the line at paying more than $50 per month for a data plan, according to a survey.

Get ready for the first smartphone running on an Intel chip. That phone will likely be from Lava, according to a source. Originally posted at Nanotech – The Circuits Blog