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Is Sprint's second 4G phone the best Android smartphone to date? Earlier this year HTC introduced the world's first 4G-enabled Android phone, the Evo 4G. Packing a larger than life touchscreen display, an 8-megapixel camera, HD video recording, mobile hotspot technology, and more, the Evo 4G had a lot to offer. Now Samsung is throwing their hat into the ring with the second 4G phone to hit the market, dubbed the Epic 4G. Can it match, or even exceed, the standard set by the Evo 4G? The answer is a definitive yes. In terms of design, the Epic 4G is not unlike many recent touch-screen slider phones. The glass paneled touchscreen interface dominates the upper portion of the chassis, with only a speaker, a small front-facing camera, and the standard array of Android touch-enabled buttons (settings, home, return, and search). The lower section, which features the slide out keyboard, also accounts for a considerable amount of bulk; housing the built-in battery and the phone's pro...

Smartphones will make up over half of Asian mobile phone sales by 2015, with 477 million units likely to be sold, an industry report said Monday. Consultancy Frost and Sullivan said smartphones would account for 54 percent of the Asia-Pacific mobile market in five years, up sharply from five percent in 2009. The sharp take-up rate for smartphones will be a huge revenue boost for telecom operators as it means a surge in demand for data services, the consultancy said. The consultancy said data usage from smartphones would generate over 38 billion US dollars for the region's telecom operators by 2015, from slightly over 1.3 billion dollars last year. Smartphones are high-end mobile devices providing faster access to data connections such as e-mail and Internet browsing than so-called feature phones, which have less computing ability. Continue reading

Since at least the time of the iPhone's introduction in 2007, mobile phones have been moving toward their inevitable evolutionary destiny of becoming full-on handheld computers, complete with complex operating systems, the ability to run multiple applications and store large amounts of data. And for just as long, researchers have said that the attackers would begin focusing on mobile platforms as soon as they could figure out a way to make money on it. That time appears to be now. The appearance last week of the Android SMS Trojan , which fires off multiple text messages to premium rate numbers controlled by the attackers, is the latest and perhaps most prominent example of efforts by online criminal groups to make money from attacks on mobile devices. But the Android Trojan isn't the first such attack and it most definitely won't be the last, experts say. Continue read; Threatpost

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (C) applauds while unveiling the company's new location services feature called “Places” during a news conference at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, California August 18, 2010 . Facebook on Wednesday threw the switch on a new feature that lets US members of the social networking service share their whereabouts with friends while on the move. Facebook Places marks the firm's hotly anticipated first step into “location-based” services that have been catching on with people who own smartphones equipped with satellite position tracking capabilities. “Starting today, you can immediately tell people about that favorite spot with Facebook Places,” said Places product manager Michael Eyal Sharon. “You can share where you are and the friends you're with in real time from your mobile device.” Facebook members can “check-in” at restaurants, bars, or other social venues and let their friends at the social network instantly know where they are and with w...