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Investors braced for more bleak news from smartphone laggard Nokia Oyj on Thursday with the world's largest handset maker likely to post a second-quarter loss and a weak outlook.

Nokia is scheduled to report its second-quarter results on July 21 before the market opens.

The 4.3-inch Samsung Galaxy S2 has sold about 3 million units worldwide.

Samsung’s Epic 4G is currently available on Sprint.

Apple's upcoming iPhone 5 is on the way, but will it be able to remove its flaws of the past? The answer, however, is likely to be no.

A fresh video of Nokia’s upcoming Sea Ray, powered by Microsoft’s Windows 7, has started doing the rounds on YouTube.

Nokia's basic phones generate much better operating profits than its smartphone line-up, the Finnish mobile phone company said on Tuesday when unveiling regrouped past business results.

Droid Bionic is not the only phone which will grace the Verizon 4G LTE tag. Other top notch phones which it has to compete with on Verizon 4G LTE are Samsung's Droid Charge and HTC Thunderbolt.

A fast-growing number of software applications offers doctors the chance to view X-rays or monitor heart rates from iPads or smartphones, prompting U.S. health officials on Tuesday to propose government oversight for some of the more complex health apps.

Samsung is expected to launch four versions of the smartphone in the U.S. in July, and is expected to provide stiff competiton to the iPhone 5, which is expected in September.

Renting may be a cheaper option for college students and parents in a time of tight finances, with college tuition and expenses a burden for many families. Amazon.com launched Kindle textbook rentals, promising tens of thousands of textbooks at discounts of as much as 80 percent less than purchase price on Monday.

With the growing momentum in the smartphone market, Nokia is pushed to slash the price of its handset by 10 percent in Q4 of 2011 to boost its sales globally.

An FCC filing from HTC reveals that the rumored 10-inch Puccini tablet will be coming on AT&T 4G network.

A mushrooming breed of soothsayers in tech websites and blogs are predicting the demise of Apple iPhone, and by extension, arguing that the Google Android OS will beat Apple's iOS as the mobile operating system of choice in future. What essentially fuels the iPhone demise talk is the apparent edge Android phones have in terms of certain specs like screen size, processing power, battery life and camera capability.

So far, 2011 has proven the year of the Android with exciting new smartphones powered by the Android operating system hitting the market. However, considering the prospect of a feature-loaded iPhone 5 and Apple's key patent victories, questions have been raised on whether the iPhone will end up stealing the show.

Samsung is preparing to release another iPhone 5 competitor at the IFA event in Germany in September, Yahoo Korea reported.

The year 2011 has been 'the year of Android' so far with exciting new smartphones powered by the Android operating system hitting the market. However, considering the prospect of a feature-loaded iPhone 5 and Apple's key patent victories, questions have been raised on whether the year 2011 will remain 'the year of Android', or iPhone will steal the show at the end.

The 4.5-inch Hercules is expected to arrive next month and will run on Android 2.3 or Gingerbread juice.

Apple's iPhone 5 prototype overheats, according to a report, causing the company to delay the product. Apple is expected to release instead this fall the iPhone 4S, a less radically-changed smartphone.

A new survey shows what RIM shareholders had long feared; no one wants a BlackBerry anymore.

Renting may be a cheaper option for college students and parents in a time of tight finances, with college tuition and expenses a burden for many families. Amazon.com launched Kindle textbook rentals, promising tens of thousands of textbooks at discounts of as much as 80 percent less than purchase price on Monday.