Posts Tagged ‘smartphone’

Nokia World to Showcase Phones, Rally Faithful

Nokia World to Showcase Phones, Rally Faithful Nokia Corp., the world’s largest mobile phone maker by units, opens its 15th annual technology conference Tuesday, presenting a range of new smartphones as it tries to rally employees and business partners after a summer of disappointments. This year’s event, which is expected to draw about 3,000 attendees [...]

Elop Brings Knack for Software, Shaking Up Businesses to Nokia

Elop Brings Knack for Software, Shaking Up Businesses to Nokia Stephen Elop, Nokia Oyj’s new chief executive officer, brings a history of iconoclastic decisions that may benefit the Finnish mobile-phone maker as it competes with nimbler Silicon Valley rivals. As CEO of Macromedia Inc., Elop focused on Flash Internet software at the expense of bigger [...]

Samsung Fascinate Completes Galaxy S Grand Slam

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Samsung Fascinate Completes Galaxy S Grand Slam With the launch of the Fascinate on Verizon this week, Samsung will have an Android-based Galaxy S smartphone available from each of the four major wireless carriers in the United States. The strategy goes against the grain of the industry-standard model of exclusive device relationships with a single [...]

Nokia N8 due end of September

Nokia N8 due end of September There’s more from the grapevine regarding Nokia’s much anticipated N8 smartphone, which has been the subject of numerous delays. The latest buzz is that the handset will be shipping on September 30th, and that’s according to Nokia’s Senior Communications Manager, who spoke to the Finnish newspaper Kauppalehti (via Engadget). [...]

RIM Acquires DataViz

RIM Acquires DataViz For nearly a decade, there was no such thing as out-of-box Exchange support in Nokia’s business smartphones. Today, it’s hard to come across a Nokia smartphone of any kind that doesn’t offer Exchange support. In not a too distant future, productivity features based on Microsoft technology will become a vital part of [...]

Huawei is thinking big with its Android 2.2 smartphone, for the small price of US$150

Huawei is thinking big with its Android 2.2 smartphone, for the small price of US$150 Mainland Chinese manufacturer Huawei is looking to emulate the success of Taiwanese firm HTC with its first-ever Android 2.2 smartphone. The smallish IDEOS will be just US$150 (that’s just 1,020 yuan now that the American dollar is struggling to hold [...]

Hands on with Samsung’s Galaxy Tab Tablet

Hands on with Samsung’s Galaxy Tab Tablet Thursday morning at the IFA show here in Berlin, I attended a Samsung press conference and watched one of the company’s executives brandish its new Galaxy S tablet. It was intriguing. But I had a much better time that evening at the Showstoppers press event, where I was [...]

T-Mobile in Talks to Carry Huawei Smartphone

T-Mobile in Talks to Carry Huawei Smartphone T-Mobile USA Inc. is in talks to distribute Huawei Technologies Co.’s new Google-powered smartphone this holiday season, a person familiar with the matter said. It’s uncertain whether the discussions between the fourth-largest U.S. mobile carrier and the Chinese telecom-equipment maker will bear fruit, but a deal for Huawei’s [...]

Rugged Motorola Defy with Android 2.1 coming to Europe

Motorola Defy

Rugged Motorola Defy with Android 2.1 coming to Europe The same day the Motorola Milestone 2 was officially announced, Motorola UK has also unveiled the Motorola Defy – the company’s second rugged Android smartphone (after the Moto i1). The Defy runs Android 2.1 (why not Froyo?), uses MotoBlur 1.5, looks pretty good, and is dustproof [...]

Sony Ericsson launches 1st TD-SCDMA cell phone in China

Sony Ericsson launches 1st TD-SCDMA cell phone in China Sep. 2, 2010 (China Knowledge) – Sony Ericsson on Aug. 31 announced the capability of supporting China Mobile’s<0941> TD-SCDMA network by launching its first smartphone Sony Ericsson A8i featuring a touch screen of 3.5 inches. The new handset provides comprehensive package of entertainment applications, including lots [...]