Ben Bajarin is the director of consumer-technology analysis and research at Creative Strategies Inc., a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm in Silicon Valley.
Smartphones
iPhone 4S Helps Apple Inch Up on Android in U.S.
While Android’s growth has slowed in the United States, Apple’s smartphone market share got a big boost from the iPhone 4S, according to Nielsen.
Every month, Nielsen surveys people who bought new smartphones over the last …
Apple Cancels Beijing iPhone 4S Sales, Gets Egg on Store and Face
Note to Apple: If there’s any way you can avoid shuttering one of your flagship stores on the very day you launch a new iPhone, well, good luck with that when the store’s in Beijing, your customers broke its glass door in a prior …
The Coolest Smartphones at the Consumer Electronics Show
The smartphone front was quiet at this year’s show, but a few phone makers still managed to be interesting. Here’s who impressed us the most.
Samsung’s 5.3-inch Galaxy Note: Giant Phone Meets Tiny Tablet
When it comes to smartphones, apparently big is the new small. Thin is still in, to be sure, but screen sizes have been steadily inching their way into the weird limboland between phones and the current crop of 7-inch tablets. …
Why Motorola’s Plan to Scale Back on Smartphones in 2012 Is a Wise Move
In a private meeting with a handful of reporters during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Motorola Mobility Chairman and CEO Sanjay Jha (pictured above) revealed his company’s strategy to produce fewer smartphone models …
Intel’s Big Double Push for 2012: Ultrabooks and Smartphones
This could be a big, busy year for Intel. While the processor giant has reportedly earmarked more advertising dollars for its ultrabook initiative than it’s spent promoting any other project since 2003 – remember Centrino? – …
How Nokia’s Lumia 900 Windows Phone Won CES Before It Even Started
The 2012 Consumer Electronics Show didn’t technically kick off until Tuesday morning, but already, Nokia’s Lumia 900 has become one of the most buzzed-about products.
What’s the big deal? The Lumia 900 is Nokia’s first …
Motorola’s Droid Razr MAXX Almost Achieves the 24-Hour Battery
In a smartphone market where companies breathlessly try to outpace one another in screen size, clock speeds and pixel density, kudos to Motorola for focusing on battery life instead.
Motorola’s Droid Razr MAXX for Verizon …
AT&T’s 4G LTE Lineup: Six Android Devices and Two Windows Phones
As AT&T continues to expand its high-speed 4G LTE wireless data network, the company has today announced a slew of devices to take advantage of the increased bandwidth. There are five Android handsets on tap, an 8-inch Android …
Survey: Over Half of Future Smartphone Buyers Pick Apple’s iPhone
If a new consumer survey’s right, Apple’s in for a bumper first quarter: ChangeWave Research questioned 4,000 likely smartphone buyers and found that over half said they planned to buy an iPhone in the next three …
Cord-On-Board: New iPhone Case Packs Its Own Charging Cable
Philadelphia-based CaseInity‘s protective iPhone case looks to solve the simple-yet-persistent I need holes! problem every iPhone owner faces by making sure you’ve got a 9.5-inch USB charging cable with you at all times.
The …