Smartphones

Ubuntu Smartphone Shipping in October Wall Street Journal (blog) Smartphones running the open source Ubuntu operating system will be available to customers beginning in October 2013, according to Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Canonical Ltd. Canonical provides services for corporate customers using Ubuntu ... See all stories on this topic »

Windows Phone Tops BlackBerry In U.S. InformationWeek The real battle in the U.S. smartphone market isn't for first or second place, at least not yet. Apple and Google will continue to tussle for the smartphone crown for some time to come. No, the real war will be waged for third place. Right now, it ... See all stories on this topic »

Q.& A.: Making Smartphones Easier to Read New York Times (blog) Many Android smartphones also have accessibility settings for making the screen easier to see, but the steps for adjusting them depends on the phone model, carrier and version of Android. On a Samsung Galaxy SIII running Android 4.0 and later, you can ... See all stories on this topic »

Smartphones, tablets help UW researchers improve storm forecasts UW Today The next advance in weather forecasting may not come from a new satellite or supercomputer, but from a device in your pocket. University of Washington atmospheric scientists are using pressure sensors included in the newest smartphones to develop ... See all stories on this topic » UW Today

comScore: Apple increases lead as top US smartphone maker while Samsung ... The Next Web Apple may not be king when it comes to smartphones around the world, but at home it ended 2012 as the top OEM. In the US, Apple is increasing its share in first place and Samsung is slowly gaining on it in second. Rounding out the top five are HTC, ... See all stories on this topic » The Next Web

New camera war brewing in the smartphone market PCWorld HTC and Nokia are preparing to go head-to-head with new cameras on upcomingsmartphones, as they hope to steal market share from Apple and Samsung Electronics. This year will once again see the camera become a key feature assmartphone vendors ... See all stories on this topic »

The Tech for the Next Billion Smartphones PC Magazine At yesterday's Common Platform Technology Forum, Dipesh Patel, executive vice president and general manager of the Physical IP Division at ARM, talked about the fact that continued processor improvements are needed as mobility continues to grow. See all stories on this topic »

Capcom Says Improved Smartphones Make Game Development Costlier Businessweek Capcom Co., the creator of the “Resident Evil” and “Street Fighter” video games, said improvements in smartphones are making it more expensive to develop games. Creating a multiplayer game for mobile devices now costs at least 100 million yen ($11 ... See all stories on this topic »

800 million Android smartphones, 300 million iPhones in active use by... VentureBeat By the end of this current year, 1.4 billion smartphones will be in use: 798 million of them will run Android, 294 million will run Apple's iOS, and 45 million will run Windows Phone, according to a new study by ABI Research. The ABI study factors in ... See all stories on this topic » VentureBeat

Paid parking via smartphones comes to downtown Phoenix Phoenix Business Journal A new pay-by-smartphone parking system has been installed and launched at the CityScape development in downtown Phoenix. Those parking at CityScape can now use their smartphones to pay to park via a downloadable Pango application. CityScape ... See all stories on this topic »