While the higher end of the smartphone market is chasing the next big thing, it's more than possible to have a good phone at the affordable end of the spectrum.

The financial implications are around $8.2 billion per annum, according to operators.

Vix Technology will install more than 10,000 common reader module (CRM) devices in ticket offices, gates, buses, and vending machines as part of a project to unify Malaysia's transport ticketing system.

After suggestions that Apple wants to use OLED displays for the iPhone, it now seems the company has a new display research facility in Taiwan.

If longer battery life is at the top of your smartphone feature wish-list, Oukitel's K10000 could be the device you've been waiting for.

With the first batch of Fairphone 2s soon to be reaching their new owners, we try out the ethical smartphone to find out how well it works.

As well as allowing you to manage Gmail from inside the new Yahoo Mail app, Yahoo has also added split screen for the iPad and fixed a number of teething issues for its Android app.

​Samsung has named two new heads for a crucial post in its mobile division in its bid to strengthen software services for smartphones, while also naming a head for its newly formed automotive electronics division.

With Twitter's Periscope emerging as the best iPhone app of 2015, Apple has also ruled on its choices in the iPad category.

While the latest figures show Android is gaining market share in the US and Europe, iOS is on the rise in China.

The not-for-profit organisation has announced its intention to discontinue Firefox OS smartphones, with Mozilla saying that it will continue to focus on connected devices.

Europe's competition regulator has accused Qualcomm of predatory pricing and paying a major handset maker to use its 4G baseband chips exclusively.