Smartphones

Nintendo’s just-released DSi adds an audio player, digital camera, ability to download games via Wi-Fi and an improved Web browser, but it and the...

Cellphone unit and dollar sales to consumers fell at single-digit percentage rates in the fourth quarter, sharply contrasting with 2007’s fourth quarter, when dollar...

U.S. smartphone unit sales in 2008 continued to grow — although at a slower rate — despite the economic downturn, but a host of...

HTC’s plans for global summertime availability of its Touch Pro2 PDA phone includes the U.S. market, a spokesman said. The 3G HSDPA phone, based...

PDA phones and combination cellphones/PNDs (personal navigation devices) took the spotlight in February, with AT&T launching a dual-slider Windows Mobile smartphone, T-Mobile launching the...

The first cellular phones introduced in 2009 include PDA phones, a portable navigation device (PND) phone, a military-spec ruggedized phone and the first phone...

Two new 3G cellphones introduced here by SonyEricsson include the company’s most affordable Cyber-shot camera phone to date and a Walkman-brand music phone. Both...

Palm plans first-half availability through Sprint of its new Pre PDA phone, the first PDA phone built on a new operating system developed by...

A handful of new cellphones launched here at International CES will enter a market expected by many analysts and vendors to post a factory-level...

Pharos, the supplier of navigation services and portable navigation devices (PNDs), launched a pair of second-generation PDA phones that double as Internet-connected PNDs. The...

New York — Touchscreens, QWERTY keyboards, smartphone operating systems, international 3G capability and Wi-Fi are among the key features making their way into cellular...

The Treo Pro, Palm’s second PDA phone equipped with W-CDMA/HSDPA wireless-data technology, became available through direct marketers and the company’s Web site as an...

The launch of the iPhone 3G raised Apple’s share of the smartphone market, and the device became the best-selling smartphone during the June-August period...

Cellphones are becoming the camera of choice for young adults for everyday picture taking, contended online cellular retailer Wirefly.com. Wirefly surveyed more than 2,000...

As many as six cellular phones with high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) technology could be available from SonyEricsson in the United States by year’s...

The new iPhone’s feature enhancements, openness to third-party applications and AT&T-subsidized starting price of $199 will put heavy pressure on the sales and prices...

The 3G iPhones add GPS navigation, high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) cellular data and compatibility with hundreds of third-party programs though its 2.0 software,...

HTC, a relative newcomer to the U.S. mobile-phone market, launched its first U.S. brand-awareness campaign and its first W-CDMA high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA)...

New phones launched by Motorola here at the recent CTIA convention included the latest version of the Q phone for Verizon Wireless, an EV-DO...

Multiple suppliers unveiled some of the first phones that operate in the new 1,700/2,100MHz Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) spectrum. The phones included models from...

Clarity, the Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Plantronics division that markets amplified home phones and other communications devices for the hearing-impaired, got into the cellphone market at...

Startup Velocity Mobile, based in Seattle and London, appeared at CTIA 2008 with its first products in a portfolio said to focus on simplifying...

Sprint Nextel launched its second Windows Mobile worldphone along with its first CDMA 1x EV-DO slider. Both models are Samsung-made. The global smartphone is...

In separate announcements, personal navigation device (PND) suppliers Garmin and Mio took steps to further blur the distinction between cellphones and PNDs. Garmin unveiled...

Retail-level unit sales of cellphones are rising at low-single-digit rates, but dollar sales are skyrocketing as consumers opt for more expensive smartphones, MP3-playing phones...

MapQuest and Dial Directions have added their names to the list of companies offering cellphone-based navigation service. MapQuest unveiled downloadable software that turns a...

Nokia has expanded its selection of high-end unlocked N series phones and stepped up plans to offer services direct to users of select N...

New cellphones are sporting names that are as flashy as their shapes and features. The cellular industry is increasingly shunning the CE’s industry practice...

Widespread problems with embedded software intoday’s more complex cellphones, particularly smartphones, is preventing the cellphone market from reaching its potential, according to a research...

The success of the personal navigation device (PND) market will drive more consumers to use cellphone-based navigation services that provide turn-by turn driving instructions,...

Firefly Mobile is debuting one of the first cellular phones designed for the tween (ages 8 through 12) market. The new FlyPhone has an...

Sprint, Verizon and Motorola announced new handsets, including a mini Palm Treo, to be available on the Sprint EV-DO network. Sprint said it will...

Families, music lovers and businesspeople are the separate targets of cellphones launched by three suppliers. For families, the Samsung DM-S105/DM-S110 for the Disney Mobile...

The Bush administration upheld an International Trade Commission (ITC) ban on importing CDMA 1x EV-DO and W-CDMA cellular phones and modems whose Qualcomm-made chips...

Sixteen percent of early adopters who plan to purchase a cellular phone in the next six months say they will buy an iPhone, according...

LG and Samsung cellphones available in the United States offer a wider array of advanced entertainment features than Motorola or Nokia phones, a Parks...

Rival carriers approached the Apple/AT&T Wireless launch of the iPhone as just another day in the life of the cellular industry, but analysts and...

As leading consumer electronics retailers find themselves excluded from the launch of one of the most anticipated CE products in recent memory, namely, the...

Nokia has begun to aggressively market its premium N series of GSM network cellular phones on an unlocked basis to online retailers, independent wireless...

Free and low-cost international calls from cellphone-to-cellphone and to landline phones are promised by the Mobivox VoIP service, available in beta form from mobile...

Entrepreneurs have begun providing free services to cellphone users who had to pay for them before. Navizon has begun offering free navigation services to...