Apple filed two new lawsuits in Germany, seeking to ban 10 Samsung smartphones and 5 tablets.
t war with Samsung continues with two new lawsuits filed in Germany’s Dusseldorf Regional Court.
The first lawsuit targets ten different smartphone models, including Samsung’s Galaxy S Plus and the S II, and is based on Apple ‘s design rights. The second focuses on five of Samsung’s tablet models. Neither was filed under “emergency proceedings,” which (more…)

Since Android’s introduction in the smartphone market, Google touted “choice” as Android’s big advantage over other mobile platforms. Choice of carriers, choice of manufacturers and choice of handsets. 
It did work out pretty well for them, looking at their 
 right now, but you’ve got to wonder: Why have Android phones in the past one or two years grown
? Why aren’t there a lot of options when it comes to smaller screen sizes, when small (more…)

Verizon will very soon impose a strict rule, requiring all smartphones on its network to be 4G LTE compatible,
reports. 
If it didn’t immediately strike you, Verizon’s phone lineup includes the
as well, which has led to speculations that Apple ‘s next iPhone will support 4G LTE networks.
From now on, nearly every smartphone, wireless hot spot, tablet, and Netbook that Verizon offers will come with LTE guns a-blazing. Yes, Virginia, that includes (more…)

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Smartphones keep luring more mobile users, especially those under the age of 45, according to a new survey from Nielsen.

Only 43 percent of all mobile users own a smartphone, Nielsen noted in its third-quarter survey. That figure covers the gamut of 13 to over 65. But ownership has hit more than 50 percent among some specific age groups under 45.

Of those in the 25 to 34 range, a whopping (more…)

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Nielsen)

Smartphones keep luring more mobile users, especially those under the age of 45, according to a new survey from Nielsen.

Only 43 percent of all mobile users own a smartphone, Nielsen noted in its third-quarter survey. That figure covers the gamut of 13 to over 65. But ownership has hit more than 50 percent among some specific age groups under 45.

Of those in the 25 to 34 range, a whopping (more…)

Nokia today announced the first two smartphones based on Windows Phone 7.5 – Lumia 800 and Lumia 710.
back in February 2011, where Nokia decided to ditch its Symbian platform and instead adopt Windows Phone as its 
.
According to Nokia, Lumia 800 features:
head-turning design, vivid colors (cyan, magenta and black) and the best social and Internet performance, with one-touch social network access, easy grouping of contacts, integrated communication (more…)

A Dutch court has found Samsung guilty of infringing an Apple patent relating to photo management, and ordered a Europe wide ban on the sale of Samsung Galaxy smartphones from October 13th. The Galaxy Tab, Samsung’s
rival, has not been named in the injunction and its sales would remain unaffected in this region.
The patent in question, titled “Portable Electronic Device for Photo Management”, illustrates the concept of swiping through a gallery (more…)

when the iPhone first launched. The Finland based company’s complacence has been the reason of its decline, which showed in its
. The company posted losses of nearly $700 million and almost every sector witnessed a decline. With these results,
 achieved an important landmark of being the world’s top smartphone vendor.
Last quarter Nokia’s smartphone shipments went down by 34% to 16.7 million smartphone units compared to Apple ‘s 20.3 million
(more…)

According to Square Trade, only 2.1% of iPhone 4's would fail after 12 months of usage. Note that this is an extrapolated figure based on current trends because it has not been a year yet since the iPhone 4 arrived.
This figure turns out to be the best in the industry with the iPhone 3GS and Motorola having a malfunction rate of 2.3%. In third position was HTC with a 3.7% malfunction rate in the first year of ownership. BlackBerry scored the (more…)

David Katz, Yahoo’s VP of Mobile for the Americas region has revealed the following details:
“The free app, will be available for both iPhone and Android phones and will allow smartphone users to not only conduct video calls with each other, but with anyone that currently uses Yahoo Messenger for video calls on their PCs.”
The ability to make voice calls with users on the iPhone , Android smartphones and anyone using Yahoo messenger on the PC (more…)