Nokia’s Q4 earnings, released on Thursday, make for some challenging reading for even the most hopeful of Nokia (NYSE: NOK) watchers. The handset maker confirmed analyst estimates that it has sold over a million Lumia Windows Phone handsets - but that didn’t stop a horrible 31 percent slide in its…

We’ve heard about how the boom in smartphone popularity, the dropping cost of components and the rapid rise of Android, a “free” smartphone OS, has led to a number of handset makers driving down the price for smartphones—with devices selling for less than $100 becoming more and more of a…

While some operators in some countries (like the U.S. and Japan) have already celebrated birthdays for their LTE services, 4G in the UK hasn’t even been born yet. But now at least it looks like we might have a due date. UK regulator Ofcom today set out new proposals for…

CES, currently in full swing in Las Vegas, promises to bring out another wave of Android tablets, to add to the 40+ that were on the market before the week even started (if you don’t count e-readers built on the platform; if you do, it’s more like 50). Sound flooded?…

Smartphone penetration is slowly approaching the tipping point where it will be more common to have a smartphone than a feature phone among the general population. Ofcom says the UK and Japan are among the countries leading the way to that milestone as consumers turn away from PC usage—a trend…

Following on from its acquisition of mobile software developer SPB at the end of November, Yandex is making one more move to increase its ubiquity among the growing number of smartphone users in the country: the search giant is reportedly planning to launch search apps for Apple’s iOS devices by…

We’ve seen some significant strides for LTE in the past year—with some big names like Verizon and AT&T (NYSE: T) getting behind the fast mobile broadband technology and rolling it out for the masses. The latest reports on what Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is cooking up could be another boost: Apple…

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) acolytes will probably be saying “told you so” when they hear of this: sales of the iPhone, which had been in decline in the last several months, turned around and grew in the month of October, thanks to the introduction of the newest model, the iPhone 4S.

T-Mobile is the last major carrier in the U.S. not to have the iPhone—a consequence of the device’s radio chipsets being different from those that work on T-Mobile’s 3G network. The operator seems resigned to this fact, but things could be different if it looks east to China, and takes…

Frustrating news for those in the UK who have eagerly been awaiting the first 4G services. The country, home to some of the most mobile-savvy consumers in the world, is now facing a delay well into 2012 before its national operators can even begin to consider how they would deploy…

Using stats from a mobile advertising network do not give the most complete picture of the mobile market, but they do highlight some interesting usage trends. So take the following, perhaps, with a grain of salt: One report out today from the ad network Jumptap notes that there may be…

Less than 24 hours have passed since the iPhone 4S was introduced by Apple, and Samsung is taking no chances. The company has already announced that it is filing for injunctions on the device in France and Italy, requesting the courts block sales of the device because of patent infringements,…

The high cost of mobile data—not just for consumers but for mobile operators facing huge traffic on their networks with the rise of smartphones and tablets—has become a big topic in mobile. So it comes as no surprise that startups offering solutions to the issue will be catching the eye…

New developments today in the fight between Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Samsung over design and patent infringements in the company’s smartphones and tablets: the presiding judge in a case in Australia may issue Samsung with its first injunction in that market, on the Android-based Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet; and the…

No signs of this fight cooling off soon. Fresh from a ruling in Germany that denied Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) a Europe-wide injunction on Samsung’s Galaxy 10.1-inch tablets but upheld it in that country, Samsung has now filed a direct suit against Apple in France, the first time the fight has…

Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), Europe’s largest operator by revenues, is taking some decisive steps to keep pole position for the longer term: today it has opened a new R&D Center, Vodafone Xone, to try to seek out the best and brightest innovations in wireless technology and services. Yet despite Vodafone’s roots…

Mobile TV has for years been one of the great white hopes for mobile operators looking for new lines of revenue from their data networks—a sentiment that they have held on to despite some high-profile services having failed to meet expectations. Now Everything Everywhere—the JV of Orange and T-Mobile in…

One more development today that shows the patent race—and the many millions of dollars that are going into defending and settling around them—is still in full stride. The Canadian company MOSAID has announced that it is picking up the management of some 2,000 patents belonging to Nokia (NYSE: NOK), which…

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has all but cornered the market for tablets in the U.S., say researchers at Forrester, who predict that its iPad will take 80 percent of all tablet sales this year in North America. But that’s not entirely the case in Europe, it seems.