Having owned and used both Android and iOS devices the past few years, I was convinced that fewer people were paying for apps on Android Market versus the iTunes App Store for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Why? It was simple. Most new iPhone owners already had iTunes accounts that they used to purchase music and movies in the past. [...]

Citi Analyst Walter Pritchard says Microsoft is earning a licensing fee of $5 per Android device made by HTC. This adds a bit more context to the patent agreement the two mobile giants reached last month, and according to the report, Microsoft is looking to nail other Android smartphone manufacturers with a similar agreement for $7.50 to $12.50 per device. [...]

Earlier this week during Microsoft’s Windows Phone Mango event, we learned that new hardware partners were joining the software company for WP7 devices. Now it looks like Huawei, a ZTE competitor, is looking to get into the Windows Phone market itself. The Chinese manufacturer says that it is currently watching the Windows Phone market unfold and develop, and might start [...]

It looks like Research In Motion’s eternal (and sometimes baffling) optimism about BlackBerry’s future has come to bite them in the rear. Earlier this week, an Atlanta firm began investigating RIM to see if they had posted financial statements between December and April that did not disclose everything they were legally required to. As you might guess, the investigation specifically [...]

Back in January we covered Osama Bedier’s move from PayPal to Google. At PayPal, Bedier (pictured above) was Vice President of Product Development, a role he’s had since December 2002. We didn’t know what he was going to be doing at Google, then yesterday we saw him introduce Google Wallet as Google’s Vice President of Payments. This upset PayPal so [...]

While Intel has repeatedly struggled to get their chips inside mobile phones, there’s one thing they are good at and that’s creating remarkably tiny transistors. Intel’s factories, or fabs as they’re called in the industry, churn out chips using some of the most advanced techniques known, but the thing is they’ve never built processors for anyone but themselves. That Qualcomm, [...]

Nokia T7, which we described as the N8 for the Chinese market, has been approved by the FCC. In other words, it’s ready to be sold on the U.S. soil even though that ain’t gonna happen, like ever. The reason is simple – we’re talking about a TD-SCDMA-based device which is made to work with China Mobile’s 3G network. Sure [...]

We’ve seen this happening in Japan and now the citizens of the UK are following suit, with more of them preferring the Samsung Galaxy S II over iPhone 4 during the month of May. However, it’s worth pointing that HTC still dominates, occupying 5 spots in the top ten list. Among HTC’s device that sold well in May, we find [...]

Remember when HTC said they would be reviewing its bootloader policy yesterday? Well, I’m eating my words since I said that this could take a long time, as HTC has officially announced that it will no longer lock the bootloaders of Android phones. This is good news indeed for those who like to apply modifications and flash custom ROMs. Peter [...]

The smaller, thinner, and lighter version of the already slim Galaxy Tab 10.1, the Galaxy Tab 8.9 has just made its way through the FCC. The sexy Honeycomb tablet should make its way to the US sometime in the early summer and while we’re not surprised that we’re seeing the tablet grace the FCC, we’re certainly excited about it. With [...]