Dell will begin shipping the Venue Pro–its $99.99 Windows Phone 7 handset with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard–on Dec. 9. – Dell
will begin shipping the Venue Pro, its first Windows Phone 7 handset, Dec. 9.
Retailing for $99.99 with a two-year contract, the smartphone includes a
4.1-inch multi-touch display and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard.
Microsoft
hopes that the Venue
Pro and other Windows Phone 7 smartphones lau…
If you are one of the of types that likes your iPhone, but wishes it has a physical keyboard to use ThinkGeek has your fix. ThinkGeek is now shipping the TK-421 that adds a physical keyboard to the iPhone 4 or 3GS. The Libratone Beat wireless speaker is landing at the Apple store next month. [...]
iPhone 4 sales launched Apple over RIM and into the top-5 list of handset vendors during the third quarter. Smartphones are now a major factor in the overall handset market. – Apple, Research In Motion and Android phone producers such as
Samsung put in strong performances during a third quarter that showed
smartphone sales to be very much dictating the global handset market.
The handset market also seems to be rewarding phone vendors that are
constantly innovating and…
DBS Vickers Securities in an Oct 19 research report says: “Revenue was up 10% q-o-q and 30% y-o-y to $246 million, as handset sales jumped 56% q-o-q, on the back of higher sales of the newly introduced iPhone4. This was largely offset by higher handset subsidy costs, and net profit of $39.5 million (+15.5% y-o-y) was in line with our estimates.
As Microsoft prepares to launch Windows Phone 7, LG accidentally releases specs for a smartphone powered by the OS. – Ahead of Microsofts impending official launch of the latest series of smartphones, based on Windows Phone 7 software, handset manufacturer LG Electronics accidentally jumped the gun, issuing a press release with specifications the UK launch of its first Windows Phone 7 handset, Optimus 7. While the …
Motorola debuted its holiday lineup of Android smartphones at the CTIA Enterprise & Applications show in San Francisco Oct. 5. The phone maker’s collection is led by the Android 2.2-based Droid Pro, which includes AuthenTec IPSec multiheaded VPN integration, remote wipe of device and SD card, and complex password support. Device and SD card encryption will be available in early 2011. Push e-mail with corporate-grade security is also a big draw for the device. Verizon Wireless will sell the device sometime in November, one year after launching its flagship Motorola Droid device. The Motorola Citrus and Spice, both based on Android 2.1, are lower-end models with a focus on the environment. The Citrus is rounded while the Spice is a little longer to support the slideout screen. The Android 2.1-based Flipout and Flipside–cousins to the Motorola Backflip–will also be available in Q4 this year. Bravo provides the encore with a 3.7-inch display. With lineups like these for the holidays, there’s no small surprise Android is gaining market share versus RIM and iPhone. Check out the new devices here. – …
Worldwide mobile device shipments rose 13.8 percent over the quarter, helped largely by smartphone sales, which jumped 50.5 percent from a year earlier, despite supply shortages stunting sales. – Apple, HTC and Motorola each released new
smartphones during the second quarter of 2010, helping to drive the total
number of mobile devices shipped worldwide to 325.6 million, Gartner reported
Aug. 12.
Consumer appetites for such smartphones helped to push the overall mobile
device sales tall…
Nokia, Samsung and LG again led the worldwide handset market in Q2, followed by RIM and Sony Ericsson. In the second half of 2010, analysts expect still higher figures and more smartphones. – Nokia, Samsung and LG Electronics led the worldwide handset market through
another growing quarter, Strategy Analytics said in a July 30 report. Handset
shipments reached 308 million units, up 13 percent from 273 million units a
year earlier. Driving this forward motion, said the firm, were high-…
Sony Ericsson has introduced its new Xperia X8. It is claimed as a great entertainment smartphone. It is expected that the handset will be able to extend the overall brand appeal of Xperia to the market. The handset’s multimedia capabilities can be seen through the 3.0-inch HVGA capacitive touch-screen that supports the resolution of 320 [...]
Nokia and Intel are making a preview of the MeeGo mobile phone software available to developers. – Nokia and Intel have made a preview of the MeeGo mobile phone software
available to developers.
In a June
30 blog post, Valtteri Halla of the MeeGo technical steering group
announced quot;’Day 1′ of the MeeGo
Handset user experience project. quot;
Indeed, as of June 30, quot;Handset-specifi…
No doubts that the N8 is a good handset. But one should say that the cell phone may include too much features for a person who is looking for a mobile device available at a cheaper price. An image of the Nokia C7-00 has leaked recently. In fact, the handset comes from the C-Series and [...]
On Thursday morning the iPhone 4 became available in Japan. Actually, Japanese customers became the first to avail the new smartphone. Hundreds of people were waiting outside a Tokyo store. There were even those who camped out overnight. Today the new handset is available in the following countries: the U.S., Germany, France, Japan as well [...]
BlackBerry-maker RIM and iPhone-maker Apple were alone in achieving sequential quarterly growth in the worldwide handset market during the first quarter, according to iSuppli. For Motorola and Sony Ericsson, the news is not as good. – Apple and Research In Motion had strong first quarters in the global handset
market, while Motorola and Sony Ericsson suffered major hits, according to a
May 17 report from iSuppli.
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The report echoed late-April
data from IDC, which likewise showed RIM to have risen to a top-five
position, …
The first LG handset to feature Googles Android will arrive in Verizon stores May 20. Feature rich, the Ally will be priced at $99, giving it a fair shot against the Verizon-offered $199 Motorola Droid and HTC Droid Incredible.
– LG Electronics has joined the ranks of Android supporters with the May 12 introduction of the Ally smartphone, which will arrive on the Verizon Wireless network May 20.
While LG is the number-three market share holder in the worldwide handset market, it has competed with mostly feature and mes…
The first LG handset to feature Googles Android will arrive in Verizon stores May 20. Feature rich, the Ally will be priced at $99, giving it a fair shot against the Verizon-offered $199 Motorola Droid and HTC Droid Incredible.
– LG Electronics has joined the ranks of Android supporters with the May 12
introduction of the Ally smartphone, which will arrive on the Verizon Wireless
network May 20.
While LG is the No. 3 market share holder in the worldwide handset market, it
has competed with mostly feature and messagi…
The youth, the professionals, the businessmen, all have been made target by the mobile companies to fulfill their demands and requirements by rendering them the best of handsets with the best of technology used further giving them features easy to use.
The isolated rural population has been made the target by offering them the cheapest mobile [...]
Nokia, Samsung and LG lead a growing global handset market that saw shipments of 303 million units in the first quarter, headed toward a potential 1.3 billion by years end. Sony Ericsson and RIM tied for fourth position, followed by Apple and Motorola.
– More good news on the global mobile handset market arrived May 5 from ABI
Research, which reported shipments of 303 million handsets in the first quarter
of 2010. The figure was up 19 percent year over year. Should shipments continue
at this pace, the year is on target to reach shipments of 1.3 …
Nokia, as well as Chinese manufacturers ZTE and Huawei, put in strong fourth-quarter 2009 performances, encouraging research firm iSuppli to announce that the cell phone industry was out of the recession and has a strong 2010 ahead.
– The cell phone industry has declared an end to its recession,
following strong fourth-quarter 2009 performances and a promising
first-quarter 2010, iSuppli said in an April 27 report.
The research firm described cell phones as a “resilient performer in an
otherwise moribund world economy.” …
Dual sim mobile phones are working really well in Indian markets and observing the trend, Indian Mobile Phone manufacturer Zen Mobiles has also launched a low-cost trendy Dual SIM handset X220 with a price tag of just Rs.1849.
Talking about the latest launch, Mr. Deepesh Gupta, MD Zen Mobiles said, “With X220 we want to create [...]
Microsoft Windows Mobile has the highest OS adoption rate among newly launched handsets, according to a recent ABI report that details the latest trends in mobile handset design. Additional trends include GPS, the candy bar form factor and chipsets.
– ABI Research
offered a snapshot of the global mobile handset industry on April 22,
announcing that approximately 1.15 billion mobile handsets shipped in
2009. Smartphones and “enhanced phones,” versus simpler feature phones,
accounted for 81 percent of the estimate.
“In recent years the maj…
