SMARTPHONE

In the midst of bankruptcy, TerreStar has unveiled its new handset.

Sales of the BlackBerry’s latest Torch 9800, which were initially hit by its high price, have zoomed in the US market after its prices were slashed by half earlier this month.

Internet search engine Google has played down its rivalry with social networking site Facebook, but said social media was part of its strategy and would be embedded in many of its products.

Several reports indicate Groupon and Google might soon be one.

Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Inc, on Thursday predicted Google’s smartphone operating system Android will beat the iPhone operating system in both quantity and quality.

Credit Suisse upgraded chip maker Qualcomm to outperform from neutral and raised profit estimates of the company, citing improved visibility on earnings growth.

As Dell reports an impressive third quarter, questions remain regarding its mobile division.

Nokia's Ovi Store still well behind Apple's App Store in terms of daily downloads.

Research In Motion (RIM), maker of BlackBerry smartphones, took potshots at Apple on Tuesday, saying the content on the iPad is 'mundane' and 'boring-looking' and that its PlayBook is superior to the Apple tablet on all counts.

Specifications of Sony Ericsson's Anzu smartphone are out in the wild and the reports confirm it's not running on Gingerbread juice.

Apple has relented after 16 months of dogged resistance to keep Google Voice app out of its Apps Store. Now the exiled app is here and available for iPhone users.

Key carriers AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile officially announced their partnership to create ISIS, a national mobile commerce platform, to make mobile wallet a reality.

It's a case of a cross-breed taking on a pedigreed product. Dell's answer to Apple's iPad is a hybrid - part laptop, part tablet, the 10-inch Inspiron Duo is due next week.

Five hundred million of a total of 1.4 billion smartphone users will be using mobile health applications in 2015, a report said. Both healthcare providers and consumers are embracing smartphones as a means for improving healthcare.

Cell phone giant Nokia, which is struggling to regain its market share in the United States, could find its new growth engine in the form of emerging markets and surging demand for smartphones.

Report says across the globe, one in five cell phone purchases this past quarter was a smartphone.

Motorola responds to Microsoft's patent lawsuit with one of their own.

Nvidia says it is ramping up production of its Tesla and Tegra processors and moving away from the traditional chipset business.

Majority of the UK consumers are not ready to pay £400 for an Apple iPad, according to a latest research report from UK broadband comparison site Broadband Genie.

Having faced multiple hardware debacles ranging from Zune to Kin, Microsoft is out to prove naysayers false with its Xbox add-on Kinect, a motion sensor and voice recognition technology-based device that allows users to control games and movies with gestures and voice.

Verizon has said it will not be Microsoft's Windows Phone 7's official carrier which is due to be launched this year.