HTC today provided more details via its Facebook page on when it will update its existing smartphones to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The first batch includes the Sensation, Sensation 4G and Sensation XE by the end of March, with the Sensation XL soon after. HTC says that owners of the Rezound, Vivid, Amaze 4G, EVO 3D, EVO Design 4G, Incredible S, Desire ...

Verizon Wireless today announced that it is pushing system updates to the Motorola Droid Bionic, RAZR, and RAZR MAXX. The updates improve performance, fix bugs, and add Verizon-branded apps/services. Users can download the updates over the air.

The Mannheim Regional Court today dismissed a lawsuit filed by Motorola against Apple concerning what Motorola called a standards essential 3G/UMTS patent. The patent in question covered the "method and system for generating a complex pseudonoise sequence for processing a code division multiple access [CDMA] signal." The judge overseeing the lawsuit ...

Motorola takes its fourth shot at the Droid that started it all with the Droid 4. For the QWERTY keyboard seeker, there's a lot to like about this LTE 4G smartphone for Verizon Wireless.

Apple has filed a new patent-related lawsuit against Samsung, this time in San Jose, Calif. The complaint, filed earlier this week, covers two patents, one concerning spelling and autocorrect, and the second concerning "universal interface for retrieval of information in a computer system." The associated court documents have yet to be made public, ...

Apple has filed a new lawsuit against Motorola over a patent license agreement that exists between Motorola and Qualcomm. Specifically, Apple argues that since it is now a Qualcomm customer, it is a "third-party beneficiary of Motorola's agreement with Qualcomm," meaning that Motorola can't sue it for patents it is licensing from Qualcomm. The lawsuit ...

Samsung has announced its successor to the budget Tocco Lite – the monikerly-inspired Tocco Lite 2. The Tocco Lite 2 will be available in the UK from early March and looks to build on the success of the original which managed to shift 30 million units. It will land in the low-end market directly rivalling the Orange San Francisco 2, HTC Wildfire ...

According to recently released court documents, Motorola is looking to get 2.25 percent of Apple's iPhone business in exchange for licensing patents that Motorola claims Apple uses.

Samsung today announced that the Galaxy Nexus smartphone that it produces for Google is will be available in the UK this month. The Galaxy Nexus was the first device on the market to run Google's Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. The new white model, which features the same specs as the original, including a 4.65-inch 720p resolution ...

AT&T has put its 4G LTE version of the Samsung Galaxy Note smartphone/tablet hybrid up for pre-order. The Galaxy Note features a massive 5.3-inch, 1280 x 800 pixel Super AMOLED display and support for Samsung's unique S Pen interface. AT&T is offering it in white or cobalt blue, and anxious customers can plunk down $299 and sign a new two-year contract ...

After just recently going through a rough holiday quarter, it doesn't look like things are turning around for HTC just yet, as the Taiwanese phone manufacturer is predicting another disappointing performance for Q1 2012.

One of the defining features of Nokia's recent handsets is their ClearBlack AMOLED displays, which offer great color reproduction and work very well in outdoor light. While we already knew that Nokia employs a polarization filter in its ClearBlack displays, we didn't really know how the whole system worked until now.