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Google is currently focusing on designing Android in a direction to better suit smartphones and tablet PCs, the products that enjoy high volume shipments, but since Android is open source software, many hardwar    

The Samsung Galaxy S II has grown from a single phone to a diverse family of mobiles in all shapes and sizes. It took Samsung about three months to ship 5 million units and another two months for sales to reach    

Demand for feature phones has experienced a rebound recently, which will help boost sales of 2.5G/2.75G handset solutions for suppliers such as MediaTek and MStar Semiconductor in February and March, according    

As Microsoft is set to push its Tango operating system into China's smartphone market in 2012, domestic handset players in China are pessimistic about the plan and believe the operating system may not achi    

MediaTek is maintaining its goal of shipping 50 million 3G handset chips in 2012, and could potentially exceed the targeted number, according to the IC design house.    

The search giant's patent provides for a unlocking method that also lets users perform at least one command, like placing a call or opening an application. Originally posted at The Digital Home    

HTC is expected to re-christen its forthcoming quad-core smartphone to the HTC One X, instead of the Endeavor or Edge being named previously and also re-name its new LTE-enabled phone, the HTC Ville, to HTC One    

Although soaring sales of Amazon's Kindle Fire and other low-priced tablets trimmed Apple's media tablet market share in the fourth quarter of 2011, it was Apple's own newly introduced iPhone 4S    

Nvidia has won adoption of its Tegra 2 and Tegra 3 chip solutions for use in smartphones and tablet PCs from China-based vendors ZTE and Huawei Devices, according to industry sources.    

China-based handset makers, including ZTE, Huawei Device, Lenovo and Coolpad, have continued to upgrade the hardware specifications of their sub-CNY1,000 (US$159) smartphone models due to intensifying competiti