Smartphones

It’s well known that it’s not okay to text while driving, and presumably the same should apply to tweeting, checking email or most other cellphone interactions. But what about checking driving directions or looking at a map? After all, lots of cars have built-in navigation systems, and plenty of those are touch-controlled. It’s still not Continue Reading →

As usual around this time, smartphone and tablet maker HTC released its monthly consolidated revenue numbers for the month before. At first look, they don’t look too bad, but don’t be fooled. The Taiwanese company reports sales in March 2013 of NT$15,88 billion (roughly $530 million). Compared to the month before, that’s an admirable increase Continue Reading →

An Apple patent filing indicates that the Cupertino tech giant is building a Street View product of its own. Posted to the US Patent and Trademark Office website on Thursday, Apple’s filing describes a “3D Position Tracking for Panoramic Imagery Navigation” — in other words, a way to view a lifelike map of the world Continue Reading →

The chief executive of one of Europe’s largest wireless carriers claims the reason sales of Apple’s iPhone are slumping is because the price is too high. France Telecom CEO Stephane Richard told Bloomberg that European customers are beginning to focus more on prices and are holding onto their old devices longer than before. He notes Continue Reading →

At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco last week, most mobile devs said they would focus on iOS and/or Android (usually both), and play the “wait and see” game with everyone else. But in sync with its surprisingly good fourth-quarter earnings, BlackBerry is pitching the idea that bringing games into its new OS is Continue Reading →

After months of speculation – and just about a week of more accurate guesses – Facebook finally unveiled its ‘Facebook phone.’ Except it’s not a phone. “We’re not building a phone and we’re not building an operating system,” Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at Facebook’s event on Thursday, “but we are building something Continue Reading →

Maybe Facebook is onto something after all with its notion that people want their smartphones to be centered more around its social network. Flurry Analytics released a new report on Wednesday showing that iOS and Android users spend roughly half their time either playing mobile games, which accounted for 32% of all time spent on Continue Reading →

T-Mobile USA late on Wednesday released some preliminary first-quarter results that it says show its turnaround efforts are starting to take hold. The company said that its total customer base grew to 34 million in the three-month period, an increase of 579,000. It still lost nearly 200,000 contract customers, though that’s narrower than the 515,000 Continue Reading →

Interesting timing, AT&T: just a day after the HTC One pricing was announced, the carrier has clarified its launch plans for the Samsung Galaxy S 4. We already knew the phone would be available on pre-order for $250 on April 16th, but AT&T has now specified that this will be for the 32GB model; the Continue Reading →

T-Mobile is reportedly going to be sending out carrier updates to its customers on April 5 whereby it will enable LTE and Visual Voicemail to their unlocked iPhones. The release of this update will come days before the carrier network will be launching its no-contract, LTE-enabled iPhone 5. As first reported by TmoNews, the update, Continue Reading →