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Smartphone vendors shipped 54.7 million units in the first quarter this year, up 56.7% from last year, according to research firm Gartner. Within that same time period, Google's Android OS surpassed Windows Mobile and Linux to become the fourth most ...

Android, which is on around 10% of smartphones, trails Nokia's Symbian, Research in Motion (RIM) and Apple. Gartner says Android is due to beat Apple soon, since it is being used by multiple handset manufacturers. Nonetheless, companies such as ...

Not so long ago the business smartphone sector was dominated by Microsoft. Then Apple's iPhone came along and managed to attract corporate customers as well as consumers. Google's Android operating system followed in short order and although it ...

The Desire has a very strong range of smartphone features including a 1GHz processor (you won't find faster), GPS, Wi-Fi, HSDPA and a 5-Megapixel autofocus camera. It is well built and solid, with a physical design (119 x 60 x 11.9mm, 133g – the same ...

The most noticeable and oft talked about feature of the HTC Hero is the "chin", so it's a good place to start. It was there on the Magic and now we have the Hero chin: pronounced, strong, defined. HTC told us the chin was more than design quirk, it ...

These seven screens can be populated with pretty much whatever you want. HTC has already set-up a number of sets of screens (which is what Scenes is). Out-of the box these breakdown into HTC, Social, Work, Play, Travel and the clean slate. They are ...

LG's latest cam phone is an extremely sleek and suave looking device with a feature-packed 8Mp camera, multi-touch screen, Wi-Fi, A-GPS and motion sensor. Despite the name, this isn't a smart phone, and isn't intended to be all things to everyone - it ...

Turning the phone on its side activates the accelerometer and, in landscape mode, all 32 icons are revealed on the screen. Incidentally, that shortcut key on the side pulls up a spinning cube icon that offers an alternative way to find your apps

Imagine your IT department is insisting you get a Windows Mobile device - you've got to automate your business flow or some such nonsense. At this point, you'll probably begin to scream, curse, cry and beg for the sweet release of death. But, just as ...

To make matters worse, Toshiba has laid its 'Touch' user interface over Windows Mobile's usual bland, tiny icons. It has potential - its home screen offers customisable Venetian-blind-like stripes that display shortcuts to your favourite files and ...

Samsung touts the Jet as a mobile phone that's faster than a speeding bullet, but it left us with the feeling we were creeping along on a lawnmower. Bright and vivid it may be, but the resistive touchscreen requires a firm touch, and the user ...

Applications like the Web browser load up very quickly - as they do on most phones at this level - but we didn't find rendering particularly fast. Our favourite site, CNET UK, took 15 seconds to load on the Jet over Wi-Fi, compared to 4 seconds on the ...

We recently took a look at the jewel in Sony Ericsson's 'C' for camera range, the 8Mp C905 Plus, and so the arrival of the C903 marks an exercise in cost cutting. Yet, this mid-range model with a 5Mp camera retains many of the features to be found in ...

I really like all the models of Sony Ericsson. This model is amazing. I also like C905.There are many fascinating features in this mobile like stereo Bluetooth, GPS, a music player Together and many more.It's quite sleek and also deliberate phone with ...

Out and about types often find their mobile phone just isn't up to the job. Drop your phone in the mud, cycle over it, get it wet and it just might decide to give up working under the stresses and strains. There are some mobiles designed for this kind ...

Let's get this out the way right away. The latest revision of Apple's ridiculously popular mobile phone is the best one yet. It's the fastest and it is the most powerful. The iPhone 3G S is, also, the most over-priced handset to ever hit the market. ...

Whereas the 2G and 3G iPhones tended to struggle with some standard tasks – Web pages opened slowly and applications choked because of low memory – the iPhone 3G S pretty much takes anything you can throw at it. This is especially true of graphically ...

You wouldn't believe it, but manufacturers are still churning out smartphones based on Windows Mobile. Phones running Microsoft's dilapidated mobile operating system are a lot more fiddly to use compared to Apple's dreamy iPhone but are arguably ...

Version 6.5 is a somewhat minor upgrade again. Released to manufacturers only last month, the first devices running the operating system are expected to debut during Autumn this year. Despite being an incremental update, the operating system promises ...