One superstore step forward for Android in Australia, but another step back for Android-maker Samsung. Today saw what could be Google’s answer to the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Store retail phenomenon, the unveiling of an Android retail operation, in Melbourne. Meanwhile, Samsung got dealt one more blow in Sydney’s courtrooms, as…

We have seen time and again how the growing number of Android-based handsets from a plethora of OEMs—and the popularity of some specific models, such as the Galaxy line from Samsung—is translating into a boom for the Android platform. But that growth is even more striking when you compare it…

Sony (NYSE: SNE) has confirmed it is buying Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) out of their Sony Ericsson mobile handset-making joint venture for €1.05 ($1.46/£0.92) billion. “Our four-screen strategy is in place,” Sony CEO Howard Stringer says.

The Cambridge chip design company ARM has unveiled a chip design that it say uses could mean cheaper smartphones with battery lives five times longer by 2013. It also thinks they will enable cheaper devices, with smartphones easily costing less than $100 (£60) by that time.

Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), the JV between the consumer electronics company Sony and mobile equipment giant Ericsson, may be the subject of Sony takeover rumors at the moment. But for today it is continuing with its strategy to refocus its business on high-end smartphones in a bid to…

Sony (NYSE: SNE) has declined to comment on reports that it is considering a bid to buy out Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) from its Sony Ericsson handset joint venture as the company’s stock dropped in trading today.

Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), the joint venture combining the wireless expertise of Sweden’s Ericsson with the branding and media strength of Japan’s Sony, has always theoretically held a lot of promise. But an interview published today with the company’s CEO, Bert Nordberg, gives a frank rundown of some…

The Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPad controls around 80 percent of the tablet market, which has seen just in the last month one high-profile casualty, the HP (NYSE: HPQ) TouchPad, fall in the face of competition. But that is not stopping the rush of device makers looking to launch products to…

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), working together with HTC, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), moved its legal battle against Apple’s trademark on the phrase “app store” overseas today. The companies have filed papers with the EU’s trademark office seeking to nix Apple’s European trademarks on both “app…

Operators have been relatively late to the app game, but that hasn’t stopped them from trying to make up for lost time by doing anything and everything they can to make a splash in the apps market. They have tried to get in on the app store craze on their…

Consumer electronics giant Sony (NYSE: SNE) has finally, formally confirmed what people have long been expecting the company to do for months now: it has announced its entry into the nascent-but-much-hyped “media tablet” market, with the launch of two new Android devices. But will Sony have what it takes to…

A slump in profits for the world’s sixth-largest handset maker Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), which today reported its results for the quarter ended March 31, 2011. Net income was €11 million ($15.7 million) compared to €21 million for the same quarter a year ago.

Smartphone sales could drop by as much as 5 percent this year because the Japanese earthquake in March seriously affected supplies of key parts for a number of suppliers, say industry sources. Among those affected in the £100 ($163.35) billion industry are the world leader Nokia (NYSE: NOK), BlackBerry-maker Research…

Our rundown of mobile news to start your day. Today: Opera launches its own app store; Android’s European march; Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson’s alleged Windows Phone.

All talk these days is about Google/Android and Apple/iOS, but here’s a nifty infographic that underscores just how fragmented the picture really is for which mobile phone browsers dominate.

One year after making its debut at Mobile World Congress, the Mobile Applications Community—the group formed to encourage operator-led app stores—has finally come up with a commercial product and a list of handset makers who will work to make it happen. Is the market ready and willing for another app…

All this news about Nokia’s next big move and losing mindshare / market share, and it’s easy to forget that the Finns (yes, they are still based there—despite reports that they want to relocate to Silicon Valley) are still leading the mobile market, both in terms of the overall handset…

Can a PlayStation phone save Sony*Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) from more decline? The handset maker today posted a Q4 profit of €8 million ($10.8 million), its fourth consecutive profitable quarter and a massive turnaround from the €167 million ($225 million) loss reported for the same quarter a year ago. But it’s…

The Symbian Foundation has a rough road ahead of it, and without support from many handset-makers beyond Nokia (NYSE: NOK), it may face be forced to close operations because of insufficient funding, reports The Register, according to unnamed sources.