Maybe it’s time to hold off on the Apple negativity. The iPhone franchise captured 39 percent of the U.S. smartphone market in the first quarter, extending its lead over Samsung, which garnered 21.7 percent of the market, according to research firm ComScore. Interestingly, Apple’s iOS took market share away from Google’s Android, which traditionally has …

BlackBerry’s Q10, which features a QWERTY keyboard and operating system BlackBerry 10, has had a strong showing in the U.K. and Canada, according to one analyst. Related stories Best Password Manager to Use for 2022 Your Phone Screen Is Gross. Here’s How to Clean It Without Causing Damage Spending All Night With the First iPhone According to Reuters, which obtained …

We’ve heard before that Motorola is working on handsets that are “just right” for consumers, which means smaller screens and pure Android. Well here’s a glimpse of its first phone to put that into practice, courtesy of Internet tipsters @evleaks. The mobile, codenamed the XFON — suggesting it could possibly be the rumoured X Phone, though more on that later — …

Those of you looking to snare the LG Optimus Pro can now preorder one through AT&T. Normally $549.99 off contract, the phone costs $199.99 with the standard two-year agreement. That price includes an LG black folio case. AT&T promises a ship date of May 7, a few days ahead of the phone’s official launch date of May 10. Related stories …

How do you stop people pirating movies and TV shows? Get stern with them? Threaten to lock them up? Rather, give them a better selection of legal offerings, according to one Netflix exec. Ted Sarandos, the company’s chief content officer, says that wherever Netflix launches, the number of people pirating movies and shows goes down. “One of the things is …

Marvel character and billionaire entrepreneur Tony Stark loves his tech toys, most notably the glowing chemical core embedded in his chest and his supercharged flying suit. But starting May 3, he may show a little love for the Alcatel One Touch Idol smartphone. Related stories Alcatel Idol and Idol Ultra hands on First take: Alcatel One Touch Idol X The …

Barnes & Noble has dropped the price of its Nook ebook tablets, also granting its literary gadgets access to Google’s Play store and all the apps therein… including the Kindle app. Accompanying a significant £29 price slash for the Nook ereader, the 7-inch Nook HD — which we reviewed in November — now costs £129, while the larger Nook HD+ …

Now playing: Watch this: Key Lime Pie most-wanted features 3:55 Right now, deep beneath the Earth’s crust, Google engineers are working in secret to develop the next major version of Android. Rumored to be called Key Lime Pie (though some reports suggest the next version may stick with the Jelly Bean moniker), little is known about what new software treats …

Now playing: Watch this: Barnes & Noble adds Google Play to its tablets 1:23 Bowing to market pressures and customer demand for access to the full breadth of Android apps, Barnes & Noble has made the bold move of adding the Google Play store to its two latest tablets, the Nook HD and Nook HD+. The free software update, which …

Android Jelly Bean has overtaken Ice Cream Sandwich as the second most popular version of Google’s mobile operating system — but the ancient Gingerbread is still way out in front. New figures from Google’s Android developer site show Jelly Bean on 28.4 per cent of devices, split between 26.1 per cent on 4.1 and 2.3 per cent on 4.2. Ice …

BlackBerry 10 devices have succeeded in passing the rigorous U.S. Department of Defense security requirements, according to Reuters. The agency approved on Thursday the company’s entire line of devices running on its new operating system, which includes BlackBerry Z10 and Q10 smartphones, and BlackBerry PlayBook tablets. BlackBerry, Apple, and Samsung have all recently been in the running to get security …

Samsung’s Galaxy S4 has drawn criticism as phone fans discover the 16GB version of the 5-inch smart phone actually only has around 8GB of useful memory. Samsung has defended its flagship blower, saying you’re getting more features and a higher-res display in return. Nearly half of the S4’s storage space (after a factory reset, our 16GB Galaxy S4 showed 8.49GB of available …

The HTC One launched too late to save the Taiwanese company’s first-quarter results. Net profit for the handset maker tumbled to NT$85 million ($2.85 million) from NT$4.5 billion ($152 million) a year ago, a drop of 98 percent. It’s the company’s lowest quarterly profit since 2004. Revenue plunged too, to NT$42.8 billion from NT$67.8 billion, the company confirmed in Thursday’s …

Apple’s iron grip on the world of tablets is starting to ease, with Android-powered rivals starting to catch up to the hugely popular iPad. New stats from research firm IDC proclaim that at the end of the first three months of 2013, Apple held 39.6 per cent of the global tablet market, down from 58.1 per cent in the same period …

When LG was developing its first phablet, known globally as the Optimus Vu but in the U.S. as the Intuition, the head of the mobile division, J.S. Park, supposedly obsessed over the slide-top mechanism that covered the charging port, sending back prototype after prototype to his designers. One was too fast, one was too loose, and another was too slow, …