Windows Phone 8

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been rumored to release a five-inch iPhone for most of the year, but the company has yet to confirm any such details. While Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is gradually increasing the size of its displays, its newest phone is limited to 4.5 inches. Its largest phone, the Lumia 625, has...

OAO Mobile TeleSystems, the largest cellular service provider in Russia, has no desire to go back to carrying Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone. The carrier (which is also known simply as MTS) dropped the popular smartphone last year after enduring years of high subsidies. "Apple wants operators to...

Nokia's (NYSE: NOK) handset business is stronger in 2013 than it has been over the last few years. The company finally began to turn things around last year when it released the Lumia 920, a new Windows Phone 8 device that came with a plethora of innovative features. Nokia has followed the Lumia...

Less than 12 hours ago, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) was rumored to be in talks with Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) about the possibility of bringing the Home launcher to iOS and Windows Phone 8. The rumor stemmed from a Bloomberg report, which quoted Adam Mosseri, Facebook's director...

When Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) created the Chrome OS platform, it hoped to build the next great operating system. The company had no idea this would lead to internal competition between the two platforms. Right now, Chrome OS is the company's dominant system for notebooks. Acer, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE...

The Lumia handsets are officially a hit. They may not have sold as many units as the iPhone 5, the Galaxy S III or the Galaxy Note II, but they are still some of the most popular smartphones released in 2012. This has sparked a much-needed win for Nokia (NYSE: NOK), which has been struggling to...

A new study by DigiTimes Research found that shipments of the Windows Phone platform -- both WP7 and WP8 -- will increase by 150 percent next year. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) partners are expected to ship 52.5 million units in 2013. This will enable the Windows maker to gain 6.1 percent of the...

In the 30 days since its release, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has sold 40 million licenses of Windows 8. On the official Windows blog, Microsoft revealed that the new, touch-friendly operating system has outpaced its predecessor, Windows 7, in terms of upgrades. At the rate Windows 8 is currently...

Steven Sinofsky, the former president of Windows and Windows Live, was thought to have alienated his former colleagues by attempting to merge his division with the team responsible for Windows Phone 7 and 8. In responding to this accusation, Sinofsky said that this was not the case. According to...

Samsung sold more than 97 million mobile phones in the third quarter, besting Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone by more than 74 million units. According to Gartner (NYSE: IT), nearly 428 million mobile phones were sold during the quarter. Approximately 23.5 million of those phones were manufactured by...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer told French daily Le Parisien that sales of the company's first tablet "are starting modestly." Ballmer also said that the supply shortages were a "good sign." He added that Microsoft will "fix this problem quickly" as the company increases capacity,...

Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) is getting some investor love this morning, rising more than six percent after the company announced that its fourth-quarter revenue came in at $4.87 billion and rose 18 percent year-over-year and five percent sequentially. Qualcomm's operating income of $1.24 billion was...

In designing the Lumia 920, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) produced one of the most expensive smartphones ever conceived. Consumers will have to spend a small fortune to take one home without a contract. But in America, AT&T (NYSE: T) will reportedly sell the Lumia 920 for $149 with a two-year contract -- $...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is only days away from releasing Windows Phone 8, the mobile counterpart to its long-awaited PC and tablet operating system. Advertisements are beginning to leak online, but the general public has yet to be exposed to the Windows Phone 8 platform. Despite this, it seems as...

Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) upcoming mobile operating system, Windows Phone 8, is getting two additional handsets from a key manufacturer. HTC has unveiled two new Windows Phone 8 devices -- the 8X and 8S. The former will be a high-end smartphone with a 4.3-inch screen. HTC plans to release the 8X...