Michelle Maisto

In these iPhone and Android-centric days, smartphones running the Microsoft Windows Phone 8 platform will face a major challenge no matter when they arrive. Not likely to do them any favors, these smartphones are scheduled to launch when a good number of eyeballs will be focused on the newest iPhone. Still, benefitting Microsoft, says a […]

Apple€™s manufacturing partners should fire up their iPhone assembly lines pronto. The sixth version of the iconic smartphone€”tentatively called the iPhone 5€”could have record sales in its future. 451 Research has reported that a recent ChangeWave survey found not only €œan uptick€ in planned consumer smartphone purchases this quarter, but an €œunprecedented level of advance […]

Amazon has big tablet plans in the works, which it, no doubt, hopes will help it to outperform Samsung, as the pair contends for the No. 2 spot behind Apple€™s iPad. Amazon plans to introduce €œup to five or six tablet€ options, Demos Parneros, president of U.S. Retail for Staples told Reuters, according to a […]

Samsung Galaxy S II Like the Apple iPhone, the first Samsung Galaxy S featured a 3.5-inch display. But with its follow-up device, Samsung jumped to a 4.27-inch display. Samsung’s sales shot up, and its display sizes have followed the same trajectory. HTC Titan II The aptly named Titan not only features a 4.7-inch display but […]

In China, the first country to tally more than 1 billion mobile subscribers, the number of households able to afford a smartphone is expected to double, from 40 percent to 80 percent, by 2017, according to new data from research firm Research2Guidance. The report is good news for smartphone vendors from HTC, Research In Motion […]

Is the Apple iPad a grown-up toy or a business device? Investors want to know, and Consumer Intelligence Research Partners sought to find out. What its €œrigorous and credible€ analysis turned up, CIRP reported is that new iPad€”the iPad 3, if you will€”has attracted more business users than earlier models. Still, for the most part, […]

HTC has fallen well behind fellow Android supporter Samsung, so it can only help the smartphone maker to be the first to announce that several of its devices will soon receive the upgrade to Google€™s Android 4.1, known as Jelly Bean. While many a high-end Android device has yet to receive 4.0, Google€™s Ice Cream […]

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion opened a BlackBerry App World Vendor Portal July 19, enabling developers to begin submitting applications for BlackBerry 10 devices. The goal, for now, is to make the apps available to other developers who are likewise tinkering with Dev Alpha test devices and developing for RIM€™s upcoming€”and hopefully business-changing€”platform. During a […]

Even with an aging iPhone lineup, Verizon Wireless announced a banner second quarter. During those three months, the carrier added 888,000 retail postpaid customers and again saw double-digit percentage growth in its year-to-year earnings. Benefiting from a well-rounded smartphone portfolio, increasing numbers of smartphone users and a growing Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network powering Americans’ taste […]

Nokia is mid-slog through swampland, gritting its teeth as it trudges toward what it swears is higher ground ahead. On July 19 the phone maker delivered a second-quarter earnings report nearly as cringe-worthy as expected. While it posted a net loss of approximately $1.88 billion, it also managed to double the number of Lumia smartphones […]

Larger Display Android devices have stretched their displays to 4.7, 4.8 and even 5.3 inches, while Apple has held firm around the 3.5-inch mark. With its next iPhone, however, analysts say Apple will offer a display that’s at least 4 inches (on the diagonal). A Slimmed-Down Profile The next iPhone will use a technology that […]

Verizon Wireless is rolling out its 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network at warp speed. As of July 19, the nation€™s largest carrier will extend its LTE network to 33 new markets, expand its LTE coverage within 32 other markets and put itself well on its way to meeting its year-end goal of covering 400 U.S. […]