Melbourne, June 17(ANI): A new beer glass, called the "Offline Beer Glass", promises to make drinkers spend more time with friends than with their smartphones.

Washington, June 6 (ANI): Shipment of smartphones is expected to outpace those of feature phones by the end of 2013 for the first time ever.

Washington, June 4 (ANI): Smartphones and tablets can make for sleep-disrupting bedfellows and one cause is believed to be the bright light-emitting diodes that allow the use of mobile devices in dimly lit rooms.

Washington, May 31(ANI): A latest smart-lock is set to turn your smartphone into a key to lock or unlock the house doors.

New Delhi, May 28 (ANI): Samsung on Tuesday launched Galaxy Mega 5.8 and Galaxy Mega 6.3, its biggest smartphones in India.

Sydney, May 21(ANI): The 2013 Yellow Social Media Report has analyzed that a growing number of Australians are using social network at an addictive rate wherever they can, even in toilet cubicles!

Washington, May 17 (ANI): Scientists have created a cocktail-making robot that can be controlled by smartphones.

London, May 14 (ANI): The French Government is planning to introduce one percent tax on the sale of smartphones and tablets in order to fund its culture of music and films.

Sydney, May 10 (ANI): Nokia has launched low-priced phones with Internet capability to help it regain lost ground in crucial emerging markets.

Wellington, May 5 (ANI): Chat apps and free messaging services designed for smartphones are slowly killing text messaging with businesses and teenagers shifting their way of communication.

Sydney, May 4 (ANI): Apple has gained ground in the US smartphone market, industry tracker comScore has said.

Washington, Apr. 27 (ANI): The sale of smartphones has significantly gone up and over shadowed the feature phones (dumbphones) during the last quarter worldwide.

Washington, Apr. 26 (ANI): Smartphones have been supersized, growing in length and girth.

Beijing, Apr. 26 (Xinhua-ANI): Samsung Electronics, the world's largest maker of handsets, memory chips and flat screens, said Friday that its operating profit surged in the first quarter on the back of solid demand for its Galaxy smartphones.

New York, Apr.23 (ANI): Apple has returned five to eight million iphones to manufacturer Foxconn as it claimed these phones were unfit to sell.

Washington, April 23 (ANI): Three smartphones destined to become low-cost satellites were flown into space Sunday aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.'s Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia.

London, Apr.19 (ANI): Nokia has seen a sharp decline in its shares despite good sales of its Lumia smartphones.

Washington, April 18 (ANI): A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics has created a new keyboard called KALQ that enables faster thumb-typing on touchscreen devices.

Washington, Apr.18 (ANI): A flaw in commonly used applications on Android smartphones such as texting, messaging or microblogging could spread private information or allow forged fraudulent messages to be posted, a recent study has revealed.

London, Apr 16 (ANI): Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg has defended the social networking giant's mobile advertising plan, despite concerns that users will be bombarded with unwanted messages.

Washington, Apr 9 (ANI): A growing number of people in the US have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, as now they watch shows and movies on the Internet, sometimes via cellphone connections.

Washington, Apr. 3 (ANI): Apple's new iPhone, which is similar in size and shape to its current one, could be launched this summer.

Washington, Apr. 3 (ANI): Smartphone makers will soon be able to add high-definition sound - making calls sound clearer and crisper.

Sydney, Mar 25 (ANI): Apple has acquired a start-up, WiFiSlam that makes mapping applications for smartphones.

Sydney, Mar. 24 (ANI): Phones using operating systems based on the open-source platforms Linux and Mozilla's Firefox will be hitting the market this year, challenging the stranglehold of the two market leaders, Google's Android and Apple's iOS.