Smartphones

BlackBerry Posts Profit Amid Recovery Hopes

No more red ink as the latest results from BlackBerry show turnaround is starting to pay off

11 years ago

Chinese Smartphone Leaves Factory With Malware On Board

Android-based Star N9500 ships with a Trojan hidden in its firmware, says G Data

11 years ago

Tesco Offers Skype-Like Smartphone Calling App

Tesco Calling Card allows users to make low-cost calls to the UK from abroad using a smartphone and a Wi-Fi…

11 years ago

Chinese Website Discloses Microsoft Android Patents

A Chinese government website has published a list of the patents Microsoft claims give it the right to licence fees…

11 years ago

Jolla ‘Saapunki’ Update Adds 4G Support For All Sailfish OS Users

Jolla adds LTE support and browser features in new update for Sailfish OS

11 years ago

Amazon Set To Launch 3D Smartphone On 18 June

Amazon to hold launch event on 18 June, increasing speculation that a 3D smartphone is imminent

11 years ago

£6,700 Vertu Signature Touch Promises To Encrypt Communications

British-manufactured Vertu Signature Touch targets luxury consumers with sapphire-protected handset

11 years ago

iOS 8 Brings New Health, Cloud And Messaging Features To iPhone And iPad

iOS 8 debuts at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) and will be released on iPhone and iPad later this year

11 years ago

Samsung Z Is First Tizen-Powered Smartphone

Samsung Z to debut in Russia in Q3 ahead of wider release as company seeks to reduce Android dependency

11 years ago

Which? Calls On Operators To Unlock Mobile Phones

Which? wants consumers to have more freedom to choose a better deal for their needs

11 years ago

Mozilla Opens Pre-Orders For ‘Flame’ Smartphone

The mid-tier Firefox OS reference device from China costs just $170 with free shipping

11 years ago

LG Reveals G3, A Premium Smartphone Full Of Surprises: Gallery

The G3 features a laser-assisted camera, a really big battery and one of the highest resolution screens on the market

11 years ago

Apple Requests Sales Ban, Retrial In A Case Against Samsung

Apple has requested that a Californian court ban offending Samsung products from the US in the ongoing smartphone patent row

11 years ago

BlackBerry Details Secure Vision For IoT With ‘Project Ion’ M2M Platform

BlackBerry hopes to establish itself as IoT network leader as recovery continues

11 years ago

Former iPhone User Sues Apple Over iMessage Disruption On Android

Former iPhone user complains not all her messages are being delivered to her new Samsung Galaxy S5

11 years ago

Apple, Google Settle Motorola Patent Lawsuits

Apple and Google have agreed to settle their patent lawsuits related to Motorola Mobility, with Apple pursuing its cases against…

11 years ago

Minnesota Passes Smartphone Kill-Switch Legislation

Minnesota becomes the first US state to require manufacturers to offer kill switch for all smartphones sold

11 years ago

BlackBerry To Allow Other MDM Vendors To Manage BlackBerry 10 Smartphones

Airwatch, Citrix, IBM and SAP all want to be able to manage BlackBerry 10 handsets

11 years ago

Yahoo Acquires Blink For Mobile Engineering Talent

Yahoo is to buy mobile messaging start-up Blink for talent, not products,, as it looks to build out its mobile…

11 years ago

Motorola Aims To End ‘Dumbphone’ Era With £89 Moto E

Motorola shows off low-cost Moto E and 4G-enabled Moto G

11 years ago

Samsung Prepares Tizen Smartphones For Russia And India – Report

Samsung Tizen smartphone could finally see the light of day in the next few weeks

11 years ago

Firefox OS-Powered ZTE Open C Goes On Sale In UK For £69.99

ZTE Open C is available on eBay and runs the latest version of Firefox OS

11 years ago

Huawei Ascend P7 Hopes To Crack Western Smartphone Market

Huawei Ascend P7 claims to offer the best of east and west, including the world's first 'groufie' optimised front facing…

11 years ago

Google Launches Offline Docs Apps For iPhone And Android

Google Docs and Sheets offer offline editing for iPhone, iPad and Android, with Slides set to follow

11 years ago

Tablets Boost UK Internet Use But Most Apps Are Never Used

Ofcom finds that most apps downloaded onto tablets and smartphones are never opened

11 years ago

BlackBerry Starts Pre-Orders For Indonesian-Targeted Z3

BlackBerry hopes emerging markets will help aid its recovery

11 years ago

Apple Offers Free Power Switch Repairs For Faulty iPhone 5s

Apple says a small number of iPhone 5 smartphones are affected by faulty 'on-off' switches

11 years ago

Samsung Admits Camera Failure Affecting ‘Very Limited’ Number Of Galaxy S5s

Samsung Galaxy S5 camera flaw stops users from using any of the smartphone's touted imaging features

11 years ago

Android Wallpaper Apps Secretly Mine Bitcoins

Google has removed five smartphone wallpaper applications that used handset computing power to produce digital currency

11 years ago