As smartphone shipments continued to surge throughout 2011, Apple reclaimed its chief position as the …

commentary The birth of the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx‘s extra-large battery may have been unintended, but it shouldn’t have been. Motorola’s stars aligned, CNET learned, when an engineer began experimenting with a thicker, but more muscular battery than what’s in the original Droid Razr. Moto’s CEO Sanjay Jha loved it, Verizon came around, and as a result, the Droid Razr …

90 per cent of iPhone buyers rejected a bargain, instead seduced by the iPhone 4S — despite the fact it’s so similar to the previous model. Which leads us to ask: are we blindly addicted to the latest, shiniest thing even when it’s not the sensible option? A new study by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners breaks down iPhone sales, and …