Bonnet de douche! The hotly rumoured Samsung Galaxy Note 8 has been snapped au naturel …

BlackBerry users should start to see lower prices for mobile apps, thanks to BlackBerry 10. To push its upcoming mobile OS, Research In Motion is kicking off a new global pricing plan in its BlackBerry World store. As described in a RIM blog post yesterday, the new pricing tiers used in the store will incorporate currency exchange rates and value-added …

Apple and Android continue to chew up the smartphone industry. The two platforms captured a record 92 percent of worldwide smartphone shipments in the final quarter of 2012, according to data released today by Strategy Analytics. Android took the lead with 152.1 million shipments last quarter, almost double the 80.6 million shipped in 2011’s fourth quarter, Strategy Analytics estimated. The …