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Google Android, HTC, Samsung, LG: The Best of CTIA 2010

March 28th, 2010 | No Comments

CTIA Wireless 2010 saw major companies rolling out a number of smartphones and mobile services, aiming to either consolidate or expand their market share in an ever-more-competitive arena. Among the higher-profile announcements: Sprint’s HTC Evo 4G, a 4G-capable smartphone that the company hopes will become a must-have device for its speed and multimedia capabilities, and Samsung’s Galaxy S, with a screen designed to take advantage of not only video and image, but also e-texts. Google Android seemed to run on many of the newer devices being displayed, while Microsoft showed off a prototype of its Windows Phone 7 Series OS. With the smartphone market generally expected to keep expanding, these devices have the potential to drastically affect their companies’ revenues going forward and allow them to compete for both consumer and business dollars.
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Android 2.1 Delayed on the Motorola Droid, No Nexus One on Verizon

March 26th, 2010 | No Comments

Motorola’s move to push Android 2.1 out to its popular Motorola Droid smartphones has been delayed by more than a week, prompting an angry backlash from users expecting new feaures. The company said via its Facebook Page March 25 the rollout is taking longer than expected. Meanwhile, the Google Nexus One, rumored to roll out from Verizon Wireless at the CTIA Wireless 2010 show March 23, is still not on Verizon. A spokesperson said it’s not happening…yet.
– Motorola’s move to push Android 2.1 out to its popular
Motorola
Droid smartphones has been delayed, the company said via its Facebook
Page
March 25.
Motorola pledged
to begin upgrading the
Droids from Android 2.0 to the latest version of Google’s Android
mobile operating system March 18, of…


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Sprint Faces Long Road with HTC Evo 4G, Suggest Analysts

March 26th, 2010 | No Comments

Sprint has earned positive media attention for its 4G-enabled HTC Evo 4G smartphone, unveiled during a high-profile presentation at the CTIA Wireless 2010 conference in Las Vegas. Despite that focus, however, a number of analysts are suggesting that Sprint will need to take additional steps if it wants to reverse its declining revenue and customer-retention trends.
– LAS VEGAS Sprint introduced its 4G-capable HTC
Evo 4G smartphone during a high-profile press conference at the CTIA Wireless
2010 convention on March 23, earning largely upbeat buzz, but analysts suggest
that the carrier still faces an uphill battle in its bid to retain users and
reverse a decli…


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Verizon to Launch V Cast Mobile App Store March 29

March 25th, 2010 | No Comments

Verizon finally joins the mobile app market with the V Cast App store, which makes its debut March 29, eight months after Verizon first announced it.
– Verizon Wireless announced at the annual CTIA wireless trade show that it would launch an online application store for its mobile phones beginning March 29. Reuters reported
Verizon, which is establishing the store in partnership with Vodafone
Group, would allow customers to pay for downloaded app…


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CTIA Rings Up Killer Smartphones from HTC, Samsung, BlackBerry, Microsoft

March 25th, 2010 | No Comments

The HTC Evo 4G, HTC HD2, Samsung Galaxy S, Nokia Nuron, Windows Phone 7 Series and other smartphones are all appearing at the CTIA Wireless 2010 convention in Las Vegas. While these devices feature different capabilities and run on competing carriers, they all share in similar trends, including prominent social networking applications and an emphasis on touch screens and sleekness. In addition to these either brand-new or soon-to-be-released smartphones, others such as the Palm Pre are finding new life at CTIA, as new carriers announce that they will carry devices once the exclusive domain of their rivals. This combination of features and technologies promises to make 2010 an interesting year for mobile competition.
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Yahoo Sketch-a-Search Offers iPhone Search Alternative

March 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

Yahoo at CTIA Wireless debuts two search applications for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch. The Sketch-a-Search app lets users search for information without typing in keywords. Instead, users can search by drawing a boundary on the iPhone’s map to find local restaurants within that area. The Yahoo Search for iPhone app is a standard search app for the popular smartphone. Yahoo could use a bit of traction with these applications, as the company’s search engine market share has been sliding.
– Yahoo, determined not to be an also-ran in the search engine market, has released
two new search applications for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch, one of which lets
users search for information without typing in keywords.
Released at the CTIA Wireless trade show March 23, the Sketch-a-Search
appli…


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Samsung Reveals Galaxy S Google Android Phone

March 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

Samsung unveils a new Google Android smartphone, the Galaxy S, at the CTIA Wireless conference in Las Vegas. Running on Android 2.1 and powered by a 1GHz processor, the smartphone features Super AMOLED, which the company says makes its 4-inch screen 20 percent brighter with 20 percent more battery life. Samsung describes the Galaxy S as a multimedia device capable of delivering movies and ebooks, and is partnering with a number of companies, including Skiff and Paramount Pictures, to deliver content.
– LAS VEGAS Samsung unveiled a
Google Android smartphone, the Galaxy S, at the CTIA Wireless conference on
March 23. In keeping with the trend of multimedia-capable smartphones, Samsung
also revealed that it had partnered with companies such as Skiff and Paramount
Pictures to bring content such as…


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Rugged Bluetooth, Driving Apps, Phone Watches Stand Out at CTIA

March 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

The CTIA Wireless conference in Las Vegas is a chance for wireless companies to show off their latest mobile applications, devices and network plans. While larger companies such as AT T and Verizon will likely dominate headlines with their announcements, a number of smaller IT shops are also debuting the products of tomorrow, including ruggedized smartphones and Bluetooth devices, mobile apps for navigation and driving, and even a wristwatch that doubles as a phone. The following images show just a few of the products on view at the 2010 conference. Many of them reflect larger trends such as 4G connectivity, elaborate designs for smartphone cases and faster devices.
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ATandT CEO Stephenson Talks WorkBench for iPhone

March 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

AT T CEO and president Randall Stephenson opened the CTIA Wireless 2010 conference with a keynote speech in which he insisted that the United States led the world in its wireless innovation, and detailed a native iPhone application for enterprise users. While AT T has built much of its market-share in the smartphone arena with Apples iPhone, the carrier has been introducing other devices into its lineup, including ones powered by Google Android and, soon, Windows Phone 7 Series. AT T will also offer the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus on its network.
– LAS VEGAS AT amp;T CEO and president Randall Stephenson
suggested during the opening keynote at the CTIA Wireless 2010 conference that the
United States continued to lead the world in wireless innovation, but that its
lead could be threatened in years ahead. In addition, Stephenson also detailed
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Kyocera Intros Zio M6000 Android Smartphone

March 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

Kyocera has returned to the smartphone space with the introduction of the Zio M6000 Android phone. Featuring a 3.5-inch motion-enhanced touch-screen, itll arrive in the second quarter.
– Kyocera introduced the Zio M6000 Android smartphone at the CTIA
Wireless 2010 show on March 23, marking the handset makers return to
the smartphone space, after a hiatus focusing on feature phones.

The Zio, which measures 4.6 by 2.3 by 0.5 inches, features a 3.5-inch
WVGA, motion-enhanced tou…


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CTIA Will Feature 4G Smartphones, James Cameron, Windows Phones

March 21st, 2010 | No Comments

The CTIA Wireless 2010 convention in Las Vegas, due to run from March 23-25, will be the chance for Microsoft, AT T, Sprint, Verizon, Motorola, Opera, Palm, Skype, and a variety of other mobile-related companies to show off their latest devices, applications and roadmaps for 2010 and beyond. Devices on display will include Microsofts Windows Phone 7 Series smartphones, and possibly a 4G-capable device from Sprint and HTC. AT T and Verizon are both expected to discuss the building-out of their networks, and James Cameron will be featured in a panel discussion about mobile technology.
– New smartphones, faster networks and unveiled alliances will be at the center of next weeks CTIA Wireless 2010 convention in Las Vegas, which runs from March 23-25. Big companies ranging from Microsoft to Verizon will demonstrate new devices, and featured speakers include AT amp;T CEO Randall Stephe…


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Opera Mini to run on iPhone at CTIA 2010

March 20th, 2010 | No Comments

The latest version of Opera Mini for the iPhone was displayed at the Mobile World Congress 2010 around two months ago.
Now once again Opera is planning to showcase the browser at the CTIA Wireless which is scheduled on March 23. No one was permitted from Opera to capture photos or videos of browser at the [...]

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