4oD is getting live and offline viewing on iOS and Android, so you can take all that swearing and all those rude bits with you wherever you go. Misfits, Fresh Meat, Made in Chelsea and Homeland are among the Channel 4 shows you’ll be able to take with you starting next year. Even better, you’ll …

Lenovo expects the growing market for 7-inch tablets to compete with large-screen smartphones, not PCs. During the company’s second-quarter earnings conference call Thursday, Lenovo Chief Executive Yang Yuanqing said he had just read a report on Apple’s iPad Mini and was encouraged about the trend in the tablet market. “The market accepts the 7-inch [tablet] better than the 10-inch. That’s …

The Samsung Galaxy Note 2 could be getting some Windows Phone competition: ZTE has revealed a possible 5.9-inch device with an enormous 1080p screen. A ZTE boss posted the picture above on the Chinese site Weibo, spotted by WMPoweruser. Alongside the snap — which shows the older Windows Phone logo — he describes the screen as a full high-definition job, …

A whopping new Sony smart phone has leaked online, reportedly sporting a 5-inch display and a 12-megapixel camera, alongside other hardware treats. The mystery mobile, codenamed ‘Yuga’ (the name of an epoch or era within a cycle of four ages in Hindu philosophy — thanks, Wikipedia) has showed itself in a series of snaps on German-language site Android-Schweiz. It’s always …

Multi-core processing and NFC support aren’t the only big new tricks in Windows Phone 8. Microsoft has added fresh ways to sift through its apps store too. At 120,000 titles, Microsoft’s Windows Phone offers nowhere near the largest selection compared with Android and iOS. Even so, that’s nothing to shake a stick at and sorting through all those options can …

Better late than never, right? Virgin Mobile today announced that it will soon add the Samsung Galaxy S2 4G to its smartphone roster. Priced at $369.99, the top-selling handset of yesterday joins the no-contract carrier on November 15. Related stories Best Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4 Cases Please, Clear Your Android Phone’s Cookies and Cache Right Now Save Hundreds on …

The latest statistics from research firm Strategy Analytics peg Samsung’s Galaxy S3 as the world’s most popular smartphone model, holding 10.7 percent of the global smartphone market in the third quarter. According to the research firm, Apple’s iPhone 4S was relegated to a close second place with 9.7 percent of the market after two years at the top of the …

The Samsung Galaxy S3 is the best-selling phone in the world — beating the iPhone for the first time. The latest sales figures from the numbercrunchers at Strategy Analytics show the S3 top at the tills, shifting 18 million phones in the last three months. Meanwhile 16.2 million iPhone 4S blowers changed hands. The quad-core, 4.8-inch S3 deserves every bit of …

Research in Motion has won key government security certification for its BlackBerry 10 operating system months ahead of its launch, allowing the smartphone to be used in secure government workplaces. The FIPS 140-2 certification signals that U.S. and Canadian government agencies, along with private firms, can deploy BlackBerry 10 smartphones as soon as they launch, with a guarantee that data …

I’ll catch some flak for this, but I still like Siri. In fact, I find it extremely useful for things like setting reminders and sending text messages hands-free. It’s not perfect, but neither is it as useless as many people seem to think. That said, Google’s newly updated Voice Search is all kinds of awesome. It’s blazing-fast, amazingly accurate, and …

T-Mobile USA T-Mobile USA has lost close to half a million subscribers during the third quarter, according to the company’s earnings statement out this morning (PDF). The network lost a total of 492,000 postpaid contracts — the lucrative long-term contracts that that bring in regular income for a cellular network — during the quarter, causing a drop in its average …

A rumored Sony smartphone operating under the codename of “Yuga” could be the company’s first handset to offer a 5-inch, 1080p display. Details, images, and benchmarks posted by PocketDroid and a Swiss Android blog suggest that the device could give HTC and others a run for their money. The hardware appears to match up fairly closely to the HTC J …

Now playing: Watch this: MiFi Liberate hot spot gets touchy 1:31 On November 16, AT&T will begin selling two new devices. The MiFi Liberate stands out as the first hot spot with a touch screen. The device, which is designed by Novatel Wireless, can connect up to 10 devices and will sell for $49.99 with a new two-year service agreement. …

Apple dropped off the top five smartphone vendors in China in the third quarter, edged out by local low-cost smartphone player Yulong Computer Telecommunication Scientific, which made its debut at third place. Citing research from Canalys, a Computerworld article yesterday reported that Apple had dropped out of its fifth placing to sixth during the third quarter. Apple’s shipment share in …

AT&T unveiled the pricing for its Windows Phone 8 devices with the hope that the three phones appeal to different customers. The Windows Phone 8X from HTC will cost $199.99 with a two-year contract, although a yellow or blue-colored version with half the memory will be available as an exclusive product for $99.99. The device can be combined with an …