Samsung and Android continue to dominate Apple and iOS in the US phone market according to new data from comScore for the second quarter of the year.
In the recent comScore MobiLens report about key trends in the US mobile phone industry, there are now over 110 million Americans who own smartphones and most of those are using the Android mobile operating system backed by

Apple’s iOS platform has been crowned as the most lucrative among mobile platforms, besting Android and others, according to a new report from Opera Software.
According to the first edition of the State of Mobile Advertising report from the company which makes the Opera web browser, the iOS platform delivered more than the Android platform in the key metric called eCPM.
ECPM is the acronym for effective cost per mille which measures the revenue an ad publisher earns per thousand ad …

Google with its Android mobile operating system and Apple with its iOS-powered iPhone lineup have gained over rivals during December to February, new data says.
The data comes from comScore which says that Android now has a 50.1 percent market share in the U.S. smartphone arena followed by iOS which has a 30.2 percent market share.
This means that Google has gained 3.2 percentage points in the U.S. smartphone market share race while Apple has gained 1.5 percentage points.
This marks a milestone …

The Nokia 803 may come equipped with the largest-ever camera sensor to date, a rumor coming from Boy Genius Report details.
According to BGR, they have “been told that the Nokia 803 will feature one of the largest camera sensors — if not the largest camera sensor — ever seen on a mobile phone.”
However, BGR – which did not cite a source for the information leading to their report – did not provide an exact or approximate sensor size for the Nokia 803.
The Nokia 803 is expected to be …

Nokia have today announced a hefty loss on its overall earnings for the year ending December 2011. Nokia, which recently partnered with Microsoft to feature Windows Mobile on its range of smartphones, reported a loss of $1.4 billion in a sharp contrast to the $980 million profit it made in a similar period 2010. This loss is attributable to a cocktail of issues that conspired to hand Nokia the huge loss it has incurred. Top of these is the 29% drop in phone sales during 2011, a loss factor that …

The market share of Apple’s iOS platform dropped to 15 percent for the third quarter of the year as Android leapt in the smartphone market share wars, a new report from Gartner reveals.

Apple iOS market share dropped in the third quarter to 15 percent as Android takes more than half of smartphone market. Image: willy-photographer / Flickr (CC)

According to Gartner in a recently-published report, the iOS market share dropped from the 16.6 percent smartphone market share it had during the …

An additional 3,500 employees from Nokia will be laid off by the end of the year, the troubled Finnish phone maker has revealed.

Nokia will cut 3,500 positions from its workforce as the company streamlines operations. Image: SapiensBryan / Flickr (CC)

The news comes as Nokia has revealed five months ago that it will be terminating about 7,000 jobs for a shakeup of its workforce.
According to Nokia, most of the layoffs will be because of the shutdown of its factory in Cluj, Romania. The Nokia …

Contrary to popular belief, Symbian is still dominating the smartphone platform market in the five leading European markets, with Android moving up a spot at second and iOS dipping to third, research firm comScore reports.
According to the report from comScore, Nokia’s Symbian OS still leads by a wide margin in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK for the three months ending in July 2011.
However, the rising Android OS from Google jumped to second, which means Apple’s iOS now takes the …

According to a recent study from research firm Nielsen, Android-powered smartphone users are not more data hungry than their counterparts using different mobile operating systems.
The study conducted in just this April also revealed that Android has widened its lead in U.S. market share over Apple’s iOS, Research in Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry OS, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile and Windows Phone 7, HP’s WebOS, previously Nokia’s Symbian, and Palm OS.
The study reveals the following market …

Proving analyst predictions true, Nokia has revealed that it will be transferring the Symbian mobile operating system to Accenture along with about 3,000 employees who will still be working on the platform.

In a stock exchange release posted by the company on its website on April 27, it revealed that it is working on “a strategic collaboration in which Nokia would outsource its Symbian software activities” to Accenture.
“At the same time, Accenture would provide mobility software …