One of the most popular websites and smartphone apps around, Tumblr, is being purchased by web giant Yahoo for $1.1 billion in cash. Yahoo’s board has unanimously voted to purchase the social blogging site and app and, unless Tumblr decided …

Samsung’s flagship smartphone the Galaxy S IV has sold 10 million units in it’s first 28 days of availability. This is being portrayed as a new record, although this is hotly contested by iPhone fans who point to the 5 million …

Apple has announced that the App Store has reached the milestone figure of 50 billion app downloads. The App Store serves Apple’s smartphone, the iPhone, as well as their tablet iPad and also more recently their Mac computers and laptops. …

Perhaps the most interesting thing to come out of the Google I/O event yesterday, as well as the announcement that will affect almost all smartphone users, is the upcoming refresh of Google Maps. Google’s unveiled changes aren’t just visual, but …

Google’s I/O event kicked off today with plenty of important and interesting announcements for mobile phone enthusiasts. The one that is grabbing the headlines is Google’s Spotify competitor service which is launching for our cousins across the pond today. But there was plenty …

South Korea smartphone and electronics giant Samsung have announced they have made a ‘breakthrough’ in the development of the next generation of mobile communications. With 4G just rolling out across Britain and other countries, work on the next generation of …

Sony has today announced their latest smartphone, the Xperia XR. The phone will be released in the second quarter of this year and is designed to be the budget version of the popular …

In a market dominated by big players such as Apple, HTC, Samsung and Nokia, smaller smartphone manufacturers struggle to be heard above the noise. Many of them make  brilliant devices that are awesome consumer products, but as they never innovate …

Those of us who think that phablets are too big are looking forward to the launch of Samsung’s Galaxy S IV Mini which unlike the main Galaxy S IV has a reasonable display size of 4.3″. Today photos of the …

Despite already having ‘bargain bin’ smartphones featuring Windows Phone 8, Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia is determined to capture more of the low end smartphone market. The problem is paying licensing fees to Microsoft for Windows Phone 8 is preventing …