Thanks to one of BGR’s anonymous sources, today we have a bit more information to report on the first Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” smartphone from Google. Purportedly dubbed either the Google Nexus Prime or Nexus Prime, the device is said to be built by Samsung and feature some rather jaw-dropping specs, including a large 720p [...]

Let the splurging begin! Shortly after the official announcement of NFC and Google’s “Wallet”, Mastercard and CSI have announced that they will launch an app in July that will cover Android, BlackBerry and iOS platforms. This will enable people like you and I with a GlobalVCard to use our mobile device of choice to make payments. [...]

In the world of tablet computers, the undisputed king (at the moment) is the iPad. Reportedly owning a staggering 82% or 90% of the market (Depending on which source you follow), Apple doesn’t have any reason to be uneasy for now (especially because next on the list is the galaxy tab with a pitiful 4%). [...]

Depending on how you look at it, the iPhone is either an marvel of inspired innovative or the standard for any future touch-screen phone; in either case, the iPhone has proven greatly influential and Apple has been suing anyone who tries to adopt its innovation as its own (these days, especially Samsung) Well, they’ve recently [...]

The back-and-forth between Apple and Samsung will hopefully begin to conclude now that a judge has denied Samsung’s request to see Apple’s unreleased products. Samsung requested to see these products after Apple demanded to see Samsung’s future products to inspect them for any patent infringements. It will be interesting to see how this all goes [...]

Congrats WIND, you have successfully taken a great phone and made it even better, pricing it at $450 outright or $300 on the WINDtab. For the money you’re getting a phone that comes stock with Android 2.2 - but will get 2.3 later this year - and also has a super fast dual-core processor. Although [...]

I should have known Sony wasn’t going to settle on just the Xperia Arc and Xperia Play – those phones, while unique and great in their own way, were a little underpowered for the next generation of smartphones. Soon after reviewing said phones, I heard a rumor about a Xperia Pro but couldn’t find any [...]

As of June 30th, mobile app developer “Seesmic” has announced that they will no longer be developing applications for BlackBerry phones because they will be focusing on the Android and iOS platform. It seems that people are dumping on RIM’s products more and more these days. Unfortunately, it’s a competitive smart phone environment and survival [...]

  The legal battle over Samsung allegedly stealing design ideas from Apple has still been happening behind closed doors. Not long ago, Apple requested access to Samsung’s yet-to-be-released models of smartphones and tablets in order to determine whether these new devices also made such an infringement. To retort, Samsung requested that they see Apple’s new [...]

  Twice annually (in June and December), the information on which social networks are dominant in each country is published. According to these maps Facebook has shown considerable growth in the past two years, as the social network is nearing 700 million users. It seems a number of other social networks are being phased out [...]