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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation is gearing up for the release of new handsets running under Google’s Android operating system, and some more info on what these devices would be capable to offer in terms of camera capabilities has just emerged.
Test photos of a number of such phones have made it on... |
10 February 2012
18:31 GMT |
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This is not the first time a research firm calculates Apple’s Q4 smartphone share for 2011 to put the iPhone on top, but it can’t hurt to have The NPD Group confirm the numbers.
According to the firm, Apple beat Samsung and LG to become the best-selling U.S. handset maker in the fourth quarter of 2011.
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6 February 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has been losing market share lately, mainly due to the transition from the Symbian OS to Windows Phone, but it appears that it still managed to retain the top position on the mobile market.
The latest data coming from IDC shows that Nokia remained the top handset vendor in the worl... |
2 February 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Strategy Analytics has issued the results of its latest research on global smartphone shipments, naming Apple the top dog of smartphone vendors in Q4 2011.
Handset shipments grew 54 percent annually to reach a record 155 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011, said the firm. “Apple reclaimed top position ... |
27 January 2012
09:33 GMT |
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Today, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of last year, and posted a €954 million ($1.25 billion) profit loss for the timeframe.
Moreover, the company announced that its total loss for the last year was of €1.073 billion ($1.4 billion). Compared to the... |
26 January 2012
07:47 GMT |
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This is one of those inventions that achieve a desired effect in a roundabout enough manner that you don't need some overly sophisticated device to make it work.
Smartphones need Pico projectors if they are to, well, project an image anywhere.
Now, though, a phone doesn't have to be so complex for that, a... |
23 January 2012
10:34 GMT |
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We suppose it is just a matter of time until even room lights get Wi-Fi support and, sure enough, the NetLED lighting system from Net LED Technology Corp. has that very capability.
The idea behind Net LED's invention is that lights should be possible to control via a smartphone or a tablet.
All it takes for we... |
20 January 2012
10:34 GMT |
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Adobe recently studied about 16.2 billion anonymous visits to over 150 top US retailers, seeking to find what devices people used most to make online acquisitions.
The conclusion was that tablet visitors spent 54% more money than smartphone visitors and 21% more than laptop/desktop visitors (per purchase).
Also, ta... |
19 January 2012
10:35 GMT |
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The latest research from Nielsen reveals that Apple’s iPhone 4S is closing the gap between iOS and Android in terms of market share. According to the research firm, the phone’s launch “had an enormous impact in the proportion of smartphone owners who chose an Apple iPhone.” Nielsen says that ... |
18 January 2012
09:45 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is getting ready for the release of new, highly appealing mobile phones this year and promises better battery life for them as well.
Today’s always-connected smartphones offer multitasking and fast data transfer speeds, while also packing large touchscreen displays.
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18 January 2012
08:09 GMT |
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The LightPad G1 dock demonstrated at CES 2012 is a fairly inventive way to transform a phone or tablet into a laptop, so to speak.
Yet another less than ordinary gadget has made its appearance at this year's CES trade show, only this one qualifies more as an accessory.
LightPad is the one that made the so-c... |
13 January 2012
05:37 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson has just posted on Facebook a message unveiling plans to make some announcements as soon as next week.
The company did not offer specific info on what the “interesting news” would be all about. However, the announcement is expected to be made during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Veg... |
3 January 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Looks like it took a 12 year-old to come out and invent something that should have been created a long time ago.Dino Zaharakis, who already has a Global Student Entrepreneur Award for High School and a “Most Innovative Product” award, designed the Dzdock.Dino looked at phones, tablets, e-readers and other... |
28 December 2011
05:14 GMT |
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One of the handsets that Sony Ericsson might soon bring to the market in the United States would be Xperia ION, since the company has just filed trademark for the name.
The filing with the United States Patent and Trademark Office shows that this device will be a mobile phone, though it does not offer specific inf... |
27 December 2011
15:21 GMT |
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Intel’s collaboration with Google seems to have led to more than just an x86 port of the Android operating system, as the chip maker has recently confirmed that its upcoming Medfield SoC will include a series of hardware optimizations specifically designed for this mobile OS.In a meeting with the Technology Rev... |
25 December 2011
11:51 GMT |
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The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) has sided with Apple in a patent suit against smartphone maker HTC by ruling that the latter has, indeed, violated Apple-patented inventions, thus banning the import of several HTC handsets in the US. Gadgets cited in the suit included key names like the Sprint ... |
20 December 2011
08:21 GMT |
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Looks like IBM really wants to take the fiction out of Science Fiction and turn it into Science Fact instead.
Many people are probably familiar with the concept of technopathy, basically the ability to control technology with a thought, or a few thoughts depending on context.
It so happens that this, among other t... |
20 December 2011
04:49 GMT |
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The Nintendo 3DS has been released in early 2011 and the PlayStation Vita from Sony is now out but despite the high profile launches analysts are expecting to see the handheld market continue to decline in the coming years.Peter Warman, who is an analyst of the handheld market, stated, “As long as Apple and Sam... |
19 December 2011
20:01 GMT |
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Looks like Intel's past misses are coming back to haunt the Santa Clara, California-based company as it is preparing to try its hand (again) at the smartphone and tablet markets.By now, people should be well aware of how Intel is really serious about entering the mobile market.That means the market of handsets,... |
17 December 2011
07:13 GMT |
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Google has announced a very interesting and major change in the way it indexes websites. The search engine has started using a mobile Googlebot with a smartphone user agent along with the regular one to start indexing websites that serve custom versions to smartphone users."Today we are happy to announce that Googleb... |
15 December 2011
12:40 GMT |
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We heard about overclocking PCs via Bluetooth before, so we aren't total strangers to apps that control aspects of a computer, but MSI's new invention is different from that. What Micro-Star International invented is a smartphone app called MSI+. This software has six function categories: Calculator, Manu... |
12 December 2011
10:38 GMT |
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You'd think the so-called touchscreen age would last a bit longer, but Qualcomm is already playing with screens that respond to how you wave your hands.
As shown in a video, Qualcomm envisions handsets, like smartphones or whatever else, using ultrasound sensors and microphones to keep up with hand movements.
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12 December 2011
09:23 GMT |
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There doesn't seem to be much chance of Apple and Samsung settling their differences now that their patent war has escalated all around the world, and Samsung's latest move proves it.
There aren't many things that could make a company change how its finances get distributed and invested, but Samsung ... |
5 December 2011
18:31 GMT |
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Trevor Eckhart, a researcher that not long ago publicly announced that a company called Carrier IQ installed tracking software in most smartphone, now came forward with a video that actually proves his findings.
The video shows that Carrier IQ tracks every key stroke, including passwords, text message contents, web ... |
1 December 2011
08:05 GMT |
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In a move that could very well be interpreted as exchanging one problem for another, Advanced Micro Devices has decided to stop focusing so much on the PC business and get its act closer together on the mobile front. The Bulldozer disaster, as it is known in some circles, must have persuaded AMD's leadership t... |
29 November 2011
03:22 GMT |
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Lie Jun, a man who is planning on selling a new handset that rivals the iPhone in both specs and price, has admitted in an interview with Entrepreneur that he and others like him were eagerly waiting for Steve Jobs to die.As 99.99 percent of the world’s population were mourning the passing of Steve Jobs last mo... |
24 November 2011
04:56 GMT |
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When it comes to being the slimmest Android smartphone in the world, Fujitsu’s ARROWS μ F-07D handset claims the top spot, leaving Motorola's RAZR behind a little.
The handset, which can be seen in the photo attached to this article, has managed to receive the necessary approvals from the FCC and reve... |
22 November 2011
12:51 GMT |
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The Universal Serial Bus 3.0 SuperSpeed interface is about to gain a new role, one that will be different from enabling communications between storage units and host products. Not too different, though, since intercommunication is still what it will accomplish, only between the processors of a single device. USB-IF... |
20 November 2011
05:52 GMT |
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Last month, Internet giant Google announced the release of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, a new mobile OS that will soon be running on handsets, tablet PCs and other devices.
The new platform release is now available on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone that hit shelves in Europe only yesterday, but should beco... |
18 November 2011
12:31 GMT |
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A report from analysis form Cowen and Company has shown that only 37 percent of gamers are playing on a dedicated handheld device while a majority of 52% were using a mobile phone to get their gaming fix.The report says, “Over the last five years, the penetration of dedicated handheld platforms into survey resp... |
18 November 2011
07:47 GMT |
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Microsoft seems very confident on the perspectives its Windows operating system has to offer, and claims that it will be able to bring the platform to new areas as soon as Windows 8 becomes available.
During a company's shareholders' meeting yesterday, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, confirmed that Windows... |
16 November 2011
05:06 GMT |
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Next year's Mobile World Congress has been long rumored to be the place where the first smartphones to pack quad-core application processors would debut, and it seems that things have been confirmed on the matter once again.
Nothing is officially announced on this for the time being, but next year Taiwanese m... |
14 November 2011
08:51 GMT |
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The whole bash fest between Apple and Samsung was bound to eventually step on some toes and, as it happens, Samsung ended up raising a big enough red flag that the European Commission decided to get involved. One of the latest claims that Samsung made against Apple is that the latter is infringing 3G patents. This... |
4 November 2011
08:00 GMT |
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Android is the most popular smartphone OS to go around in The States, but it’s still Apple that commands the overall smartphone market from a hardware standpoint, according to a Nielsen report.In a recent research note looking at the trends surrounding smartphone use in America, global leader in measurement and... |
3 November 2011
10:21 GMT |
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Dialing 911 when you have an emergency seems like a simple enough thing to do, but in case of troubles you often find yourself not having the opportunity to go for the phone, so an avid runner by the name of Rachel Owens came up with an interesting new concept, called the MyRingGuard.This contraption is basically a r... |
1 November 2011
06:39 GMT |
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Windows 8 was already made official and is expected to become available sometime next year on desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones. At least one mobile phone will be powered by the upcoming OS iteration, namely the ITG xpPhone 2 that can be seen in the photos attached to this article.
This is not the first m... |
31 October 2011
08:32 GMT |
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Smartphones are much more powerful than we give them credit, so in order to prove this fact two engineers have joined their efforts to develop Romo, a smartphone-powered robot.Romo is basically a platform that was designed to support your iPhone, iPod Touch, or any other Android smartphone, allowing your phone to roa... |
11 October 2011
15:11 GMT |
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HP's decisions during the past few months weren't looked upon with enthusiasm by most of the IT industry, though at least one of them might be reverted, this week even.
The maneuvers that HP chose to make recently have been interpreted in many ways by those involved and onlookers alike.
For the most... |
11 October 2011
02:42 GMT |
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Analysts have already said that tablets would transform the PC market, but IHL Group now says that, coupled with smartphones, such devices will have a similar, if not more acute, effect on the retailer-consumer relationship.
Right now, POS (point-of-sale) installations and pretty much ever retailer installation ... |
6 October 2011
10:34 GMT |
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A study found that all the new inventions on the IT industry have caused users to change the way they spend their time, to the point where brands might lose customers if they don't keep track of this process.
The past few years saw the IT industry going through a serious shift in perspective, even if it isn&... |
3 October 2011
10:01 GMT |
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Earphones don't usually perform anything beyond their prime directive to deliver sound straight to users' ears, but the Jays a-Jays One+ set is one of the exceptions.
For some reason or another, probably to do with school and university courses starting again, quite a few mobile devices have made their ... |
30 September 2011
07:29 GMT |
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Those who thought Samsung was the only one with a new hands free headset out in the open can be certain they were mistaken, as Plantronics also prepared one, dubbed marque M155. Smartphones have been getting more and more feature-packed lately, but even with new hardware and apps there are things they can't do... |
29 September 2011
05:57 GMT |
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Samsung released a whole bunch of products for the mobile market not long ago, one of which was a new, small memory module of the LPDDR3 variety, which has a capacity of 4 Gb.
Samsung describes its 4 Gb LPDDR3 DRAM as “the industry’s first” monolithic LPDDR3 (low power double-data-rate 3) memory... |
29 September 2011
04:02 GMT |
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InMobi, an independent mobile advertising network, anticipates the North American mobile ad market to experience a significant increase in media consumption based on a study according to which 41% of mobile users plan to buy Apple’s iPhone 5.41% of current mobile users in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada are planni... |
28 September 2011
14:41 GMT |
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The Atom line of CPUs from Intel is poised to welcome a new member early next year, although this won't exactly be its major step on the smartphone front, despite its repeated statements that it was working on something of the sort.
Intel may not take pains towards leaking information on its products ahead o... |
13 September 2011
02:42 GMT |
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Right now, the majority of Internet devices are still in the realms of cables, but this situation is expected to change during the course of the next several years.
That the IT industry is steadily transitioning to a so-called mobile and wireless age is no longer any real mystery.
In the meantime, PCs and all o... |
12 September 2011
09:27 GMT |
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A new mobile phone running under Google's Android operating system has been pushed out of Sony Ericsson's labs today, the Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman.
The latest addition to Sony Ericsson's family of Android devices comes with all of the features and capabilities that other devices include, an... |
22 August 2011
05:27 GMT |
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Microsoft has been working on its ARM-supporting Windows version and, since tests are already being carried out, companies, in this case Dell, have started to come forth and say their piece.When the ARM architecture showed that it was going to be a strong presence on the tablet market, Microsoft took the decision to... |
19 August 2011
05:20 GMT |
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Mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics is expected to bring to the market sometime during the remainder of this year a smartphone that would boast a touchscreen display larger than any before, at 5.3-inch.For the time being, nothing was officially confirmed on the matter, but some of the latest rumors on this sugges... |
18 August 2011
09:31 GMT |
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Apple may not have been in the lead before, but it looks like the smartphone market saw some leadership changes as far as market share is concerned, one of the major ones being Nokia's fall from first to third place.
Nokia may have held the top position as smartphone maker up to the first quarter of this yea... |
6 August 2011
03:44 GMT |
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