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With Apple gearing up for the grand release of its highly anticipated next generation iPhone, enormous hype surrounds the smartphone with rumors confounding customers about when the device will finally be launched and what the features will be on board.

A cool looking Android app is bound to attract our attention, and the app attracts us more if it's free for download.

Rumors about the Samsung Galaxy S3 are flying high. HTC is also releasing its flagship One X. Check out the list of features to decide which Android quad-core processor phone is better.

iPad 3 is still a winner when it comes to the fabled Retina display. But tablets like Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7, Galaxy Tab 10.1, iPad 2 and Asus Transformer Prime also have stunning displays.

Joining the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S are three more Android smartphones, namely the Verizon Droid RAZR, RAZR Maxx and HTC Rezound, which will apparently get Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) update as early as next week.

The HTC One X is set to go on sale in parts of China and Europe on April 2, marking the company's first big release of 2012. However, days before the official debut, we have the first unboxing of the much-anticipated device, giving us a glimpse of HTC's newest and greatest smartphone just ahead of launch.

Earlier this week, Asus announced on its Italian Facebook page that it will be bringing new feature to its Transformer Prime tablet and now the Taiwanese company is rolling out the 9.4.2.21 software update.

As many Samsung Galaxy S2 owners across the world are waiting for the Android Ice Cream Sandwich update to hit their phones, the company has started rolling out the Android 4.0.4 ICS update for the Galaxy Nexus GSM phone, according to Mobile Bloom.

The delayed release of the Samsung Galaxy S3 has spurred rumors and built up expectations over features and specs for the new phone, which could launch anytime between now and the end of the year.

The Finnish phone maker Nokia, in collaboration with the American mobile operator AT&T, is gearing up for the release of Nokia's flagship phone - Lumia 900 - in the U.S. market. The phone will hit AT&T stores on April 8, two weeks earlier than initially scheduled.

Apple fans are already clamoring for the iPhone 5, even though nobody outside of Cupertino knows what it looks like, what it can do, or when it's coming out. Thankfully, there are plenty of artists who love to draw up beautiful concept designs of the iPhone 5.

The rise of Apple and Google in the smartphone market has caused others to fall, notably RIM. The former powerhouse among business users has continued to lose market share, now accounting for five percent of U.S. smartphone sales.

The California based Internet search giant is reportedly working on a cheap android tablet that the company will release with a co-partnership with Asian tablet manufacturer - Asus.

The new iPad's A5X chip is the most powerful yet. Apple claimed that the chip offers four times the performance of the Nvidia Tegra 3. Is that true?

Apple has just launched a new version of its popular tablet - iPad. For most of its features, the new iPad is a big leap over iPad 2. Apple has sold more than 3 million units of the new iPad in first week of its debut. Apple's rival, Samsung, on the other hand, has also released two new tablets at MWC 2012 - Galaxy Note 10.1 and Galaxy Tab 2 10.1. The Korean tech giant is proud of its new Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet and has released a comparison chart showing the areas where Samsung's gem exce...

The release of the New iPad 3 earlier this month came as the Apple iPhone solidified its smartphone market share. Apple's iPhone and Android devices have the U.S. smartphone market locked down according to a new study released Thursday by Nielsen.

Apple's third-generation iPad got debuted in the first week of March, and for many it could be the ideal tablet as compared to other brands in the tablet market. However, give it a second thought and throw it in cut-throat competition ring again to observe if it can sustain its position with the Android's best offerings as the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime is up for the challenge.

Adding to the much-hyped rumor about the next Apple iPhone, a tech website cited on Thursday a patent filing in the US Patent and Trademark Office and said Apple could be working on an advanced camera for mobile devices that could create three-dimensional (3D) models of scanned objects and that the new development might arrive on future iDevices like the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.

After a sluggish beginning, Google seems to start afresh with its tablets. The Internet search giant is now gearing up to sell branded tablets directly to its customers through online stores, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. However, Google has not yet confirmed the report.

The Apple iPhone and Android devices have the U.S. smartphone market locked down according to a new study released Thursday by Nielsen.

The ASUS Transformer Prime Eee Pad will be receiving a new firmware update that will give the tablet Ethernet support and Face Unlock capabilities as well as other laptop-like features.