by Robert Triggs, 3 weeks ago

It’s business news time. The Q1 2013 figures for global smartphone sales are in, and there’s an unsurprisingly clear winner. According to data collected by DRAMeXchange, a division of global research firm TrendForce, Samsung has…

by Bogdan Petrovan, 1 month ago

Image: Evan Forester/Flickr We are all mobile geeks, here at Android Authority. We love everything with a power button. We like to comment the latest news and endlessly argue over which phone is better. On…

by Andrew Roach, 1 month ago

Over the past year, smaller tablets have stolen the show away from their bigger brothers, with many models, such as the Nexus 7, topping the bestseller lists. However, the 7-inch tablet craze could be over,…

by David Gonzales, 1 month ago

The Huawei brand is not as popular as others such as Apple or Samsung in the consumer electronics category. However, a new report on the Chinese web site tech.163.com says that Huawei is currently working…

by Adrian Diaconescu, 1 month ago

The Apple vs Samsung patent clash has been making the headlines the most in the past year or so, but that’s not the only seemingly endless legal dispute starring some of the big tech companies…

by J. Angelo Racoma, 1 month ago

Apple’s iOS has often been heralded as simpler than other smartphone user interfaces. Fewer choices means a lower likelihood of mistakes and messing something up. A straightforward home screen with all your apps might mean…

by Chris Smith, 1 month ago

Apple’s famous “slide-to-unlock” patent has been invalidated by a German court earlier this week, which is good news for Samsung and Motorola (Google), both engaged in patent-based legal wars with the iPhone maker in the…

by Mike Stenger, 1 month ago

The battle for smartphone market share continues in the U.S. where, since November 2012, Apple has increased its lead by 3.9 percent. comScore analyzed the top smartphone OEMs by looking at a sample of over…

by Robert Triggs, 1 month ago

Google on Wednesday announced that it’s departing from its relationship with Apple’s WebKit engine and starting up a new open source rendering engine, based on WebKit, called Blink. WebKit currently powers Safari and Opera, and…

by Brendan Lynch, 1 month ago

As you may recall, the ground-breaking patent dispute between Samsung and Apple ended with Samsung owing Apple $1.049 billion in damages. That sum was then reduced by Judge Koh to $598 million due to errors…

by Adrian Diaconescu, 1 month ago

Credit: Google With the year’s first fiscal quarter wrapped up less than 48 hours ago, you’d think it’s not yet time to look at market shares or analyze sales numbers. But while manufacturers will only…

by David Gonzales, 1 month ago

Have you ever wondered how Samsung got to where it is today? A few years ago, it barely had any presence at all in the worldwide smartphone market. In fact, its very first smartphone was…

by Bams Sadewo, 1 month ago

In a report released by Gartner last month, Nokia was trailing Samsung in the overall worldwide mobile phone sales chart in 2012, a testament to the former’s sales power – particularly for “dumb” phones –…

by Robert Triggs, 1 month ago

Cheeky advertising is always a good laugh, and although we’re pretty used to seeing Samsung take a swipe at technology rivals Apple, this time it’s the turn of Somersby Cider to come up with an…

by Bogdan Petrovan, 1 month ago

If there’s one thing we at Android Authority are famous for (or is it infamous?) is the way we do our drop tests. Yeah, we love to send shiny new gadgets to their premature deaths,…