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Smartphones are already an indispensable commodity to a lot of people, and have become an integrated part of their daily lives. Some use them to surf the Web and post updates on Facebook and Twitter, while others use facilities such as document viewers and editor, and slideshow presentations. But now, researchers at ... |
28 November 2009
03:58 GMT |
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Apple's iPhone, the most popular handset available on the market at the moment, is set to become available on the South Korean mobile phone market as soon as today. Not only does its arrival offer users in the country the possibility to choose yet another appealing device, beside those already present on the ma... |
28 November 2009
03:38 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung, the second largest handset vendor around the world, is reportedly getting ready to deliver to the market an increased number of devices powered by Google's Android operating system. In addition, the company is also said to plan leaving aside the development of Symbian-bas... |
10 November 2009
09:02 GMT |
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The popularity of netbook systems continues to grow as new technologies will enable vendors to further diversify their designs and provide customers with a few more options when choosing a new, low-power, ultraportable, Internet-capable device. We have already seen a number of companies joining the race for a better ... |
6 November 2009
06:29 GMT |
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The mobile retail unit of Best Buy Co., Inc., Best Buy Mobile, has revealed the signing of an agreement with Google for the delivery of Google Mobile App to more customers. According to the company, this way, it becomes the first retailer in the US that partners with Google for the distribution of Google Mobile App o... |
6 November 2009
04:41 GMT |
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Mobile phone maker Motorola is said to plan on releasing a wide range of mobile phones next year, with the newly launched Motorola CLIQ and Motorola DROID being only the first handsets the company has in store for its users. At least this is what CEO Sanjay Jha seems to have stated during the press conference that an... |
30 October 2009
08:49 GMT |
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Search engine company Google announced on Thursday a new feature available with its Google Custom Search, namely the fact that it now formats search results to fit on mobile phones. Google Custom Search, as many of you might already be aware of, enables web site owners to add Google-powered search boxes to their site... |
23 October 2009
04:18 GMT |
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Leading provider of communications and consumer silicon solutions Marvell announced on Monday its ARMADA family of processors aimed at next-generation ARM instruction set smartphones, smartbooks, as well as consumer and embedded devices. The chips come with great mobility, featuring both lightweight designs and great... |
20 October 2009
04:56 GMT |
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Acer is one of the companies that announced earlier this year that they would come to the market with a mobile phone powered by Google's Android system. The handset hasn't been officially unveiled yet, though reports show that it should become available for purchase sometime in November, hitting the shelves... |
2 October 2009
10:49 GMT |
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According to a recently published study from Wireless Expertise, a UK-based research firm, the smartphone sales around the world are expected to rise from about 165.2 million in 2009 to 422.96 million in 2013, driving the mobile application market to increase from $4.66 billion this year to $16.60 billion in 2013. ... |
25 September 2009
10:28 GMT |
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Redmond-based Microsoft is getting ready to release on the market the latest flavor of its mobile operating system, Windows Mobile 6.5, on October 6, and seems to be very optimistic about the market availability of the platform. According to the software giant, a number of more than 30 mobile phones are expected to h... |
24 September 2009
07:02 GMT |
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Santa Clara-based Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is about to make the first steps into the smartphone world, and it seems that it plans on walking both the software and the hardware roads at the same time. The company's Linux-based Moblin 2.1 operating system has just made an appearance, and it seem... |
23 September 2009
03:42 GMT |
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Qualcomm's 1GHz Snapdragon platform is already available on the market in a Windows Mobile-based smartphone, the Toshiba TG01, and it seems that soon more smartphones powered by it will become available for purchase. Two of said devices have been met before, namely the HTC Leo and the Acer F1, yet others should ... |
22 September 2009
04:30 GMT |
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Microsoft Pink, the project that was rumored to be all about a mobile phone that the Redmond company was planning on delivering to the market running under its own Windows Mobile 7 operating system, has made the headlines once again. This time around, however, the rumors are even juicier than before, as they point to... |
21 September 2009
01:40 GMT |
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The mobile phone market seems to begin its recovery after the financial downturn that affected it during the past few quarters, at least this is what IDC says that happens in the Western European countries. The IDC European Mobile Phone Tracker shows that, compared with the second quarter of the last year, handset ma... |
19 September 2009
06:51 GMT |
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Japan-based market research firm Techno Systems Research (TSR) recently stated that 17 percent of the total number of mobile phones shipped during the ongoing year would be smartphones. According to TSR, although the overall handset shipments are expected to decline by 10 percent during 2009, smartphone shipments wil... |
2 September 2009
10:04 GMT |
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Portable Navigation Devices (PNDs) seem to lose ground on the global navigation market in front of smartphones that feature GPS capabilities. According to a recent study published by iSuppli, smartphones are expected to surpass PNDs on the market by 2014. Moreover, the research firm also says that almost all smartpho... |
2 September 2009
06:35 GMT |
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In the near future, a newly developed piece of software for smartphones will allow users visiting ancient buildings to see what they looked like in their former glory, by just pointing the onboard camera at the structure. The software will automatically recognize the construction, and will display a picture showing t... |
17 August 2009
02:42 GMT |
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Motorola has stepped on the gas with the development of its Android-based mobile phones, and it is getting ready to release on the market two such handsets before the holiday season, with more expected to come as soon as next year. Motorola's CEO, Sanjay Jha, has already confirmed the upcoming devices, stating t... |
3 August 2009
06:46 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless, the largest operator in the country, has recently operated some price cuts for its smartphones. Following the move, its subscribers can now get some of the greatest high-end handsets for under $100, except for two devices, namely the recently launched BlackBerry Tour and the Sam... |
3 August 2009
04:35 GMT |
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A recently published research from Strategy Analytics shows that the shipments of smartphones that include GPS capabilities will grow by 34 percent during the ongoing year all around the world. For comparison, last year, the shipments reached 57 million units, while estimations point towards a number of 77 million th... |
30 July 2009
06:22 GMT |
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Chinese company ZTE Corp, a worldwide leading provider of telecom equipment and network solutions, came to the market recently with a number of four new mobile phones that run under Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system. According to the news, the four devices are only a part of the total of 10 the company... |
21 July 2009
09:06 GMT |
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ARM's chips are widely available inside mobile phones, and they seem to also be the first choice when it comes to smartphones. According to the company, Google's Android operating system has been optimized to work in such devices, where it fits better than it would inside more powerful computers like smartb... |
8 July 2009
09:03 GMT |
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Nvidia's Tegra computer-on-a-chip has already been reported to come to the market in a series of smartphones during the ongoing year, and now Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia, confirms this again. Although no specific details have been given, Nvidia's CEO states loud and clear in an interview with Mobinaute th... |
7 July 2009
06:07 GMT |
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According to a recently published report coming from telecom consultants Juniper Research, the number of mobile phones that will be shipped on the market running under an open-source platform is expected to more than double by 2014, reaching 223 million units, up from the 106 million shipped this year. The firm als... |
2 July 2009
03:20 GMT |
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Computer maker Dell is reported to be working on the development of an Internet device that should run under the Google Android operating system. According to a recent article from the Wall Street Journal, the upcoming solution should come to the market in a pocket-size form factor, as well as with touchscreen capabi... |
1 July 2009
05:24 GMT |
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OTOY, the ready-to-come server-side rendering service, which comes as a powerful solution that can stream complex 3D games to a personal computer via any browser will soon become available on any browser-enabled device, meaning that smartphone users will also be able to enjoy its capabilities. According to the compan... |
23 June 2009
10:24 GMT |
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Smartphone users around the world have now a reason to rejoice, as Adobe announced at its recent earnings call that Flash Player 10 would come to their devices sometime in October. According to Shantanu Naraye, CEO of Adobe, Flash Player 10 (FP10) for smartphones will come in beta, and will be launched in October at ... |
23 June 2009
03:38 GMT |
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ARM, a worldwide leading smartphone chip maker, stated recently that future smartphones were very likely to come to the market sporting more than one core inside their processors. According to the company, the move will be driven both by the fact that handsets tend to mimic the hardware features of personal computers... |
15 June 2009
09:10 GMT |
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It seems that the South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is determined to unveil a series of new products this month, on June 15 to be more precise, according to an announcement that the company made through its Samsung Unpacked website, which might turn out to be new smartphones and multimedia handsets. The compa... |
2 June 2009
10:54 GMT |
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Redmond-based Microsoft is expected to come to the market with a new iteration of its operating system for mobile phones in the near future, the Windows Mobile 6.5, which is already known to bring forth a wide range of improvements when compared to already existing iterations of the platform, though no exact details ... |
21 May 2009
06:07 GMT |
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According to a report Gartner, Inc. has recently published, the global mobile phone market has seen an 8.6 per cent decrease during the first quarter of the ongoing year, when compared to the same period a year ago, reaching a total of 269.1 million units shipped in the time frame. In addition, the report also shows ... |
21 May 2009
03:24 GMT |
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Four of the largest companies in the semiconductor industry, Hynix Semiconductor, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics and Silicon Image, have jointly announced today the formation of an industry consortium that is aimed at promoting a new Serial Port Memory Technology (SPMT) as an industry standard. SPMT is the first... |
20 May 2009
10:30 GMT |
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It seems that the world's larges chip maker, Intel, has made up its mind to enter the smartphone market as well, after providing its solutions for desktop computers, notebooks and low-power laptops. At an investor meeting from the Ultra Mobility group, the company is reported to have discussed some of its plans ... |
18 May 2009
03:13 GMT |
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Computer vendor Acer announced earlier this year that it planned on releasing on the market a number of mobile phones powered by Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system, and that they should surface sometime before the end of 2009, yet it seems that we might have to wait a little longer before that actually ... |
8 May 2009
08:39 GMT |
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According to the latest news on the Web, the first devices to feature Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system should come to the market sometime in the fourth quarter of the year. Previously, the Redmond company announced that the devices would become available in the second half of the year, yet it see... |
25 April 2009
03:37 GMT |
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Nokia’s President and CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, talked at the company's Annual General Meeting about the future strategies the Finnish mobile phone maker will adopt in order to maintain its leading position on the market. According to him, the company will come to the market with “irresistible&rdquo... |
25 April 2009
02:58 GMT |
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Taking ultrasound images usually implies making an appointment at a hospital, and then spending a few hours until the entire scanning process is complete. But a new approach to the investigation method, devised by experts at the Washington University in St. Louis (WUSL), has the potential to make this type of test av... |
22 April 2009
05:50 GMT |
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The second largest computer maker in the world, Dell, is expected to come to the market with a series of smartphones during the ongoing year, which have been previously reported as “not too appealing” to wireless carriers in the US. According to the latest news on the Web, the giant manufacturer intends t... |
14 April 2009
02:40 GMT |
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According to a recent report published by Infonetics Research, the total number of mobile phones to be shipped this year will be lower by 8 percent compared to the 2008, down to 1.1 billion globally from 1.2 billion registered last year, a forecast that resembles the ones made by Nokia and other mobile phone makers. ... |
28 March 2009
05:07 GMT |
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It seems that mobile application stores are expected to see a growing popularity in the years to come, at least this is what a recently publishes research report from In-Stat states. The number of smartphone users that are likely to access app stores for their devices is expected to reach 100 million by 2013, says th... |
25 March 2009
10:08 GMT |
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A newly published study shows that smartphones, especially those that feature touchscreen displays, are being used more and more in the mobile advertising world. According to the study, in February 2009, about 33 percent of the mobile advertisement requests were made by smartphones, registering growth from the 26 per... |
25 March 2009
09:34 GMT |
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Dell was reported recently to have had its latest smartphones rejected by carriers, yet it seems that the computer maker is on track with the release of the devices, at least this is what the company's CEO Michael Dell has recently stated in Taipei, although no specific details regarding the release have been ma... |
24 March 2009
11:52 GMT |
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Acer, one of the largest personal computer vendors in the world, is reported to be planning on coming up to the market in September with a mobile phone that would be powered by Google's Android operating system, a handset that comes under the codename A1. The September launch of the Android-based Acer mobile p... |
24 March 2009
05:53 GMT |
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It seems that the newly unveiled HTC Magic, or G2, is not the only Android-based mobile phone that High Tech Computer plans to release to the market during the ongoing year. According to the latest news on the Web, the company actually plans to develop at least three smartphones that would run under the Google operat... |
17 March 2009
09:53 GMT |
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Juniper Research has recently published a new market report that predicts that the smartphones will account for about 23 percent of the total number of mobile phones that will be sold by 2013. According to the report, they will see an increased traction from users mainly due to the app stores that will be selling app... |
9 March 2009
12:20 GMT |
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One of the personal computer makers that came up to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year with its own handsets was Acer, a company that unveiled four new devices at the show, which, it seems, will go on sale in the United States for free with contract agreements. The Taiwan-based company seems quite deter... |
20 February 2009
12:33 GMT |
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Acer, the third largest vendor in the PC market around the world, announced the launch of four Pocket PCs, falling into three groups, according to what the company says would consist with the consumer's needs and views over the mobile market. Acer targeted its new devices at various mobile Internet usage prefere... |
17 February 2009
10:07 GMT |
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HP announced today that it intended to support the Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system on its future smartphone devices, so as to continue its efforts to provide users with the latest wireless technologies designed for the broad mobile professional markets. The Windows Mobile 6.5 OS on the company's s... |
16 February 2009
10:12 GMT |
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As many of you already know, Palm announced recently that it would not release another smartphone to run under its Palm OS platform. The company plans to make a full switch to the newly announced WebOS, a platform that is expected to be released along with the company's Pre handset. Along with the transition to ... |
16 February 2009
02:05 GMT |
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