One company alone made more than $5 billion profit from the Android system in the first three months of 2013. Surprisingly it’s not Google but rather Samsung that’s raking it in.

The figures come from Strategy Analytics, which has just published estimates for [..]

The wait for a Facebook phone seemed to take years. Now, just a few weeks after its debut, it seems you have to almost give it away.

AT&T has announced that the HTC First handset, which was, well, the first to feature the [..]

These days most smartphones have a good-quality lens in their camera. But two different in-development tools would make particularly creative use of multiple lenses. The first is a plenoptic camera phone, which uses 16 tiny lenses instead of one main lens. It’s a technology adapted from some spacecraft observation equipment. Pelican Imaging, the company behind [...]

Most of the LED lighting innovations have surrounded developing a cost effective light bulb for lamps and standard light fixtures.  The Klauf Light Bar (KLB) provides an LED and light fixture in one.  The light is elongated similar to the florescent bulbs found in ceiling fixtures in schools and businesses.  It can be used either [...]

Plenty of smartphones and other mobile devices have text-to-speech tools to make them more useful for deaf people. Now an Indian firm is planning a 2014 release for a phone that uses Braille for blind people. The handset will not have a traditional screen, but rather a grid full of metal pins that can be [...]

MetroPCS shareholders approved its merger with T-Mobile after Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile’s parent company offered a sweeter loan deal. The merger of the fourth and fifth mobile phone carriers in the US will offer more competition with Verizon and AT&T and more choice for consumers. Bloomberg announced MetroPCS shareholder approval for the merger with T-Mobile earlier [...]

The Federal Trade Commission is set to investigate a formal complaint that wireless firms have failed to issue software updates for Android Handsets. The complaint, from the American Civil Liberties Union, says handsets that don’t get security fixes are effectively defective. The argument centers on the way that, unlike with some handsets, Android phone updates [...]

You did indeed read that headline correctly.  A global “branding” company that specializes in “building world-class brands through elegantly simple, unexpectedly fresh strategies, stories and experiences” released a comparison of Samsung Galaxy and Apple iPhone. The survey questioned 400 people to come up with the results. According to Talk Android, Siegel+Gale, a global branding company, [...]

Ever wanted a disposable phone number without the cost of purchasing a disposable phone? Burner offers you that option.  You can now get “fake”phone numbers for your Android cell phone. The app was first offered for iPhones last summer. Burner by Ad Hoc Labs is an app that is now available for Android phones and [...]

T-Mobile is marking the launch of the iPhone on its network with a “free” upgrade to iPhone 4 and 4S users. Anyone trading in those handsets will save a $99 up-front fee and could get credit towards monthly bills. The deal doesn’t quite equate to a free handset though: you’ll still have to pay $20 [...]

Rumors that Facebook will produce its own smartphone handset look unlikely to ever come to pass. But an announcement today is as close as we’ve ever got. Facebook will today confirm that it is offering a suite of applications for customized Android handsets. Rather than being a standalone app, Facebook Home will consist of several [...]

A research firm believes the total number of smartphones and tablets sold in 2013 could top a billion for the first time. IDC also believes tablets alone will soon be more popular than traditional forms of computer. The predictions come alongside calculations that recorded shipments of tablets rose by 78 percent last year compared with [...]

T-Mobile decided to break with US phone carrier tradition and left the “carrier club”.  that means the company is ditching traditional two year contracts and subsidizing phones – sort of. Let’s see if customers will actually save money by switching? T-Mobile’s website has this for a banner,”Ladies and Gentlemen, T-Mobile has left the clueless-cellular-company building.” [...]

It’s been confirmed. Apple will indeed release a cheaper iPhone this year.  In order to do so, Apple will be stripping off some high end features like the Retina display.  The casing will go from an aluminum unibody build to plastic. CNET  reported earlier today that confirmation of the cheaper iPhone came from Amit Daryanani [...]

The British government has dismissed reports that the new BlackBerry operating system has been judged to insecure to qualify for valuable government contracts. The reports stemmed from a British newspaper that has since deleted the article, which at best appears to be the result of a major misunderstanding. Government technology rules mean that departments can [...]