Smartphones

Windows Phone UK Market Share Rises To 12 Percent

Windows Phone achieves double digit shares in France and the UK as European growth continues

11 years ago

Government To Improve Railway Mobile Reception By 2015

Government wants to improve mobile reception on trains

11 years ago

BlackBerry’s Jim Balsillie Wanted To Turn BBM Into ‘SMS 2.0’

Jim Balsillie left BlackBerry because they scrapped plans to make BBM a cross-platform alternative to SMS

11 years ago

iOS 7 – Quirky, But A Worthwhile Upgrade

Wayne Rash found Apple's iOS 7 is an improvement, even though some features are quirky

11 years ago

TechWeek Readers Unimpressed By iPhone 5C

TechWeekEurope readers prefer iPhone 5 to iPhone 5C, but the majority don't want either

11 years ago

Six Nokia Tablets And Smartphones Set For October Launch – Report

Nokia Windows tablet could make its debut in first product launch of the Microsoft era

11 years ago

BlackBerry Confirms Massive £600m Q2 Loss

BlackBerry confirms dreadful Q2 results ahead of possible sale

11 years ago

Motorola Mobility Headhunters Want Canadian Scalps From BlackBerry

Motorola Mobility to offer parachute to BlackBerry cast-offs with new Waterloo base

11 years ago

Apple Updates iOS 7 To Fix Passcode Bypass

Apple quick to address simple iOS lockscreen bypass

11 years ago

BlackBerry Supplier Jabil To ‘Wind Down Relationship’

BlackBerry's smartphone supplier, Jabil Circuit, is to wind down its relationship with the Canadian company

11 years ago

Fairfax Confident Of BlackBerry Takeover As Investor Doubts Grow

Fairfax says it would not have made such a high profile bid if it was not confident

11 years ago

EE 4G Coverage Comes To Blackburn, Halifax And Ten Other Towns

EE increases coverage advantage as number of 4G towns reaches 117

11 years ago

BlackBerry’s Best Bet Is Big Business Buyers

Stop futzing with video games BlackBerry, and get more business apps on board, says Wayne Rash

11 years ago

Samsung Promises Smartphone With Curved Display

Samsung will reportedly introduce a smartphone with a curved glass display sometime next month

11 years ago

Fake iOS 7 Waterproof Advert Convinces Users To Destroy Their iPhones

Some iPhone users are fooled by a fake advert telling them to drop their iPhones in water

11 years ago

Apple Boasts Of 9m iPhone 5S And 5C First Weekend Sales

Apple does not reveal individual sales figures, but iOS 7 has been downloaded 200m times

11 years ago

BlackBerry Reaches Preliminary Sale Agreement With Fairfax

Fairfax Financial Holdings, headed by star investor Prem Watsa, has signed a letter of intent to acquire the smartphone maker

11 years ago

BlackBerry Founder Seeks Private Equity Partners For Takeover Bid – Report

Former co-CEO Mike Lazaridis hold taks with private equity firms over joint bid for BlackBerry

11 years ago

Reports: Nokia 929 Coming In White And Black

Leaked images showing what appear to be the upcoming Lumia 929 indicate a 20-megapixel camera, 1080p resolution and white and…

11 years ago

BlackBerry Messenger For Android And iPhone Suffers Delays

Unauthorised Android version delays cross-platform launch - but is downloaded 1.1 million times before being pulled

11 years ago

Touch ID Hack Pledges Near $20,000

An effort to reward the hacker who cracks the new iPhone's fingerprint sensor has reached nearly $20,000, while Germany's Chaos…

11 years ago

Study Uncovers Executive-Level Mobile Web Conflict

Chief marketing officers and chief information officers are clashing over who will define businesses' mobile web strategies, according to a…

11 years ago

BlackBerry Slashes 4,500 Jobs And Expects £624m Q2 Loss

BlackBerry axes 40 percent of its workforce as part of enterprise-focussed restructure

11 years ago

US And UK Operators Complain Of iPhone 5S Shortage – Reports

iPhone 5S is sold out amid suggestions Apple wants to drive iPhone 5C sales

11 years ago

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop To Receive £16m Payoff Ahead Of Microsoft Return

Outgoing CEO set to get massive settlement before he rejoins old company

11 years ago

Ubuntu Touch Mobile OS Set For 17 October Launch

Ubuntu Mobile plans to press ahead despite crowdfunding failure of Ubuntu Edge

11 years ago

iOS 7 Bug Lets Users Bypass Passcode Protection

A flaw in iOS 7 is simple to exploit, requiring something resembling a cheat code to access photos and social…

11 years ago

Community Bounty To Hack iPhone 5S Touch ID Hits Thousands

Crowd-funded bounty is on offer for anyone who can "break into an iPhone 5S by lifting prints (like from a…

11 years ago

BBM Set For Android And iOS Arrival, Ahead Of Z30 Launch

BlackBerry’s popular BBM is to finally arrive on Android and iOS devices this weekend

11 years ago