Smartphones News
Latest iPhone 6 concept design inspired by Apple iOS 7 debut
Within just a few days of Apple unveiling iOS 7 at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference last week, a creative designer came out with a concept...
iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending June 14
Think of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference this week as a giant tea cup, drained to the dregs of loose leaf tea and the entire iOSphere...
iPad 5 rumor rollup for the week ending June 12
With Apple's WWDC providing actual news and, you know, facts, the iOSphere seemed like a hot air balloon that was rapidly cooling and losing not only...
OMG KLP – Rumor outs purported details of Android 5.0
The Android world is in a weird place, as far as version 5.0 or (supposedly) Key Lime Pie is concerned. After whiffing mightily on our confident...
iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending June 7
As Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference loomed, the iOSphere seemed resigned to No New Hardware, taking the wind out of much of the hot air about...
Will iOS 7 and iCloud changes meet post-PC needs for enterprise users?
One place where the post-PC era is in full swing is the enterprise. And enterprise IT groups will be watching when Apple unveils iOS 7 at its...
Congressional hearing finds broad agreement on the right to unlock smartphones
Advocates for both industry and consumers voiced their support for a bill that would restore the right to unlock cellphones in the U.S. today at a...
Will iOS 7 finally make traditional PCs irrelevant?
The key to the next stage of Apple's iOS mobile experience may lie not in the number of changes the company makes to its software but in the kind of...
Android antivirus products a big flop, researchers say
Android smartphones and tablets are under attack, and the most popular tools developed to protect them are easily circumvented, according to new...
iPad 5 rumor rollup for the week ending June 6
This week, the iOSphere created a June blizzard of iPad 5 and iPad mini 2 rumors out of one six-paragraph post from a website that, in the words of...
Analyst says iPhone 4's U.S. sales injunction could cost Apple billions
Noted Jefferies analyst Peter Misek said in a research note today that the U.S. International Trade Commission’s injunction against the sale of the...
IDC: No end in sight for rising smartphone sales
Emerging markets and lower prices will push worldwide smartphone shipments close to the billion-unit level this year, according to the latest...
Samsung exec: Smartphone of the future is bringing a technical design revolution
The smartphone of the future is going to require a "revolution" in thinking about technical design and "not enough people are prepared" for the...
Samsung exec: Smartphone of the future is bringing a technical design revolution
The smartphone of the future is going to require a "revolution" in thinking about technical design and "not enough people are prepared" for the...
iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending May 31
The iOSphere analyzed, dissected, interpreted and obsessed over Apple CEO Tim Cook's comments at the All Things D conference this past week, and...
LG: Don't expect a flexible-screen smartphone in 2013
Contradicting previous claims made by other executives in the company, Kim Wong, vice president of the European division of LG Mobile, told Dutch...
Microsoft can learn a crucial lesson from BlackBerry
Microsoft continues to be an industry leader, generating healthy profits from sales of its Windows operating system and productivity software, such...
iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending May 24
One of the iOSphere's enduring myths is that one or another component or production screwup has repeatedly delayed most iPhones, including the iPhone...
iPad 5 rumor rollup for the week ending May 23
The hot air levels rose dramatically in the iOSphere this week on the strength of one laconic, six-paragraph posting about the expected weight of...
T-Mobile spurns Google Wallet, in a decidedly 'un-un-carrier' decision
Mobile payment is kind of like a slightly more realistic version of the flying car – a technology we've been hearing about seemingly forever that...