Nearly a Million Android Devices Activated Daily
According to Andy Rubin, the head of Android development at Google, over 900,000 smartphones and tablets running this mobile operating system are activated every day. Read full article
Environmentally-Friendly Smartphones Sales to Skyrocket in Coming Years
A report by Juniper Research shows that environmentally-friendly cell phones will almost reach 400 million by 2017, more than ten times the number that is expected to be shipped in[...] Read full article
Something Old, Something New: Companies Focus on Recycling, Re-Using Outdated Phones
Old handsets that end up in landfills leak toxic chemicals into the soil and groundwater. But there are programs that make it easy for consumers to recycle, and even make[...] Read full article
ZTE To Bring WP7-Based Tania To U.S.
Chinese phone manufacturing company ZTE intends to bring the entry-level Tania, a Windows Phone device, to the United States sometime this year. Read full article
ZTE Working on a Pair of Phablets
With ZTE reporting that it is projected to sell up to 50 million smartphones by the end of 2012, the company is looking to introduce two hybrid phone/tablets to the[...] Read full article
Researchers Working on Ways to Put 16-Core Processors in Smartphones
There's overclocking, and then there's this: University researchers are in the early stages of putting multi-core processors in smartphones to work in bursts of up to 16 times their normal[...] Read full article
China To Surpass U.S. as the Biggest Market for Smartphones
Research performed by IDC shows that China will become the leading country-level market for smartphone shipments in 2012, moving ahead of the current leader, the United States. Read full article
Sprint Launches Budget-Friendly Android Smartphone: The ZTE Fury
Sprint subscribers looking to purchase a value-priced Android smartphone can pick up the ZTE Fury. This inexpensive family-oriented model just launched today (Sunday). Read full article
The ZTE Era Joins the List of Quad-Core Powered Smartphones
Although ZTE announced a plethora of devices at MWC this week, one of the handsets that stood out was "the Era". This joined the ranks of quad-core smartphones unveiled this[...] Read full article
Google Android OS 4.0 Smartphones Likely to Dominate Mobile World Congress 2012
The center of the mobile world's attention is going to be on Barcelona next week, as that's where the annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) will bring the big names in[...] Read full article