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Android (News – Alert) smartphones have been gaining in popularity among the business crowd and stand to grab a quarter of the enterprise market in the next five years, says a report from Ovum (News – Alert). The latest forecast from Ovum calls for Android to capture 26 percent of all smartphone shipments to corporations in 2016, [...]

CHRIS GARDNER every second cellphone sold in New Zealand falls into the smartphone category. The popularity of smartphones, so named because they can do more than normal cellphones, means more variety and lower prices. Smartphones are really pocket personal computers. along with the ability to make phone calls, they offer users full access to email [...]

Like us on Facebook There’s a chance RIM may forever have lost credibility with its 70 million customers due to a three-day snafu. you at Apple can’t afford that. Here’s what you should learn from it: Build in redundancy. And more redundancy. Apple claims as many as 250 million customers, maybe more, in 35 years. [...]

Mobile instant messaging services are one of the trends smartphone manufacturers are following. The Canadian phone manufacturer has pioneered the chatting service with its Blackberry Messenger that can be found on its handsets such as the Torch 9810. The Cupertino-based firm Apple has now rolled out iMessage for its iOS-powered smartphones such as the iPhone [...]

There is an ongoing debate regarding the best phone manufacturer in the market. Some say that Apple’s smartphones are the best. Some say that Android manufacturers are the best. Although there is no way to put this debate to rest, we can take a closer look at the phones’ features and hardware to make you [...]

Mobile phones users had the option to pick either a phone that looked good like the Nokia 8800 series or a device which had everything on paper, but the reality was you could only ever get 50% of the functions to work. Apple saw the gap in the market getting bigger and bigger, and absolutely [...]

Nokia makes it damn hard. No US distribution this year. (Europe? with the Euro zone in state of collapse?) No front-facing camera — long a standard feature on Nokia handsets — and, hells bells, Microsoft now owns Skype. Surely that makes front-facing camera selling in Europe, Nokia’s and Skype’s home turf, required equipment. The phone [...]

Windows Phone 7, the smartphone software will be released this year, but the question is when. Windows still has not made clear when the final date will be. Windows has announced that hardware manufacturers HTC, Samsung, Asus, Lg and Dell will start making Windows Phone 7 smartphones. Release date for the WP7 smartphones Unknown. it [...]

Like us on Facebook PC World reported that RIM couldn't provide a straight answer as to why the company couldn't avoid the network traffic backlogs by re-routing traffic by bypassing Slough. This has left some to wonder if RIM didn't have the capacity at all to re-route traffic to the countries served by Slough. But RIM seems [...]

Taiwan’s leading smartphone maker HTC has unveiled its first mobile phones using Microsoft’s much-anticipated software platform “Mango” after Apple launched its latest iPhone. The two handsets — “Titan” and “Radar” — will become the first mobile phones launched by HTC to run on “Mango”. “Titan” will be equipped with a 4.7-inch touch screen and two [...]