Formula One legend Michael Schumacher remained in critical condition Sunday a week after his skiing accident in the French Alps, which a German eyewitness said he inadvertently caught on his smartphone. Investigators are focusing on the retired racer…
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Blackberry Ltd. said Friday it had filed a suit in a California court against Los Angeles firm Typo Products for violating its patents with a Blackberry-like keyboard made for Apple’s iPhone. The struggling Canadian maker of the Blackberry smartphone…
The Galaxy S4 is Samsung’s flagship smartphone, and it seems that the company’s been making inroads to get the device adopted by the US government as an alternative to the Blackberry. But according to a report in the Wall Street Journal from yesterday…
It’s tough to predict tech trends, but OEMs keep trying when they push new kinds of products on consumers. The phablet, for instance, has become one of the more popular device categories recently, and the smartwatch also seems to be getting a big…
As you’ve probably heard by now, the news for BlackBerry over the past several months has not been good. And this morning’s quarterly earnings report—which, according to Engadget’s breakdown, saw a 1.8 million drop in smartphone shipments and…
BlackBerry said Friday it fell deeper into the red in the past quarter as the struggling smartphone maker unveiled a new manufacturing partnership and a revamped organizational structure. The Canadian firm reported a massive $4.4 billion loss in its…
Smartphones have been able to do pretty amazing things for users, from giving them unprecedented mobile access to the web, to navigating their cars via GPS, and even making actual, stand-alone cameras more or less a niche item. And one of the most useful…
If you own a smartphone, you’re now in the majority — 56% of American adults do too, according to the Pew Research Center. However, with new models continually entering the marketplace and a non-stop barrage of TV and online advertising urging you…
Since joining the Android phone club about three years ago, I’ve always had devices made by companies that weren’t Google. I’ve had a Samsung handset, and these days I’ve got an HTC—but I’ve always been bummed that I didn’t have a “pure…
Canonical tried to crowd-fund its own Ubuntu-based smartphone, the Edge, earlier this year, with something of a pyrrhic victory: it managed to earn almost $13 million in pledges, while not getting a cent of that money for failing to meet its $32 million…