(Reuters) - BlackBerry will stop selling smartphones in Japan, partly because the company cannot justify the cost of modifying its operating system to accommodate the Japanese language, the Nikkei business daily reported. BlackBerry's market sha... [Full Article]
HTC (2498) will reportedly be the second manufacturer to release a smartphone on Microsoft's (MSFT) upcoming Windows Phone 8 operating system. According to a report from Chinese website WPDang, the Taiwanese manufacturer will unveil its new Windows P... [Full Article]
HTC, one of Microsoft's key mobile partners, has big plans for Windows Phone 8 according to a purported device roadmap obtained by The Verge. The troubled Taiwanese manufacturer is planning three Windows Phone 8-powered smartphones, the entry-level R... [Full Article]
Verizon Wireless on Monday confirmed that the DROID RAZR, RAZR MAXX, HTC Rezound, and DROID 4 will receive global roaming capabilities later this summer, enabling the handsets to access voice and data services in more than 200 countries, Droid-Life r... [Full Article]
An outbreak of iPhone fever made Apple the hottest smartphone maker worldwide at the end of 2011 but handsets powered by Google's Android software were shaping up as true winners in the market. (Source: AFP Relax News)... [Full Article]
(AFP/File) - An Indian salesman arranges mobile handsets at a communcations shop in New Delhi in 2010. Indian telecom companies added nearly 60 million mobile users in three months, taking the country's number of wireless subscribers to nearly 81... [Full Article]
(AFP/File) - Mobile phone handsets on sale in New Delhi. India's telecom ministry on Monday began sending out notices to companies which allegedly suppressed information in order to win mobile phone licences or failed to roll out services as prom... [Full Article]
(AFP/File) - A South Korean woman walks past mobile handsets displayed at an electronic shop in Seoul in 2007. Gadget-mad South Korea now has more mobile phones than people, with a growing number of users carrying multiple handsets for business purpo... [Full Article]
(AFP/File) - File photo shows workers producing handsets in factory in Shenzhen, southern China's Guangdong province. The Shenzhen Special Economic Zone offered lower taxes and less red tape to attract the overseas investors whose factories -- st... [Full Article]
(AFP) - An Indian salesman changes a poster of Blackberry handsets at a shop in New Delhi. India's home ministry held top-level talks with intelligence services Thursday to discuss suspending BlackBerry services if the smartphone's makers do ... [Full Article]