Do you know that Nokia sold only 500,000 units of their flagship phone the high-end N97 since Jun 09? Compare that with iPhone 3GS which sold 1,000,000 units in the first weekend. The Tai-kors (Chinese for Big Brothers) in the phone industry look like it belong to iPhone and Blackberry. Forget about Motorola, Fujitsu, Sharp, [...]
UNWIRED VIEW reported:
“RIM files for hybrid capacitive/ resistive Blackberry touchscreen patent.
In the minds of hardcore touch phone fans the answer about which – resistive or capacitive – touchscreen technology is better, is already answered. And the clear winner is capacitive screen.
After all, capacitive touchscreen displays are faster, more responsive, support multi-touch, and are the holy [...]
The Mobile World Congress, the cellphone industry’s version of the Consumer Electronics Show, kicks off in Barcelona on Monday.
Thousands of mobile industry professionals will converge on the Spanish city to show off their new range of products. Though Research group Strategy Analytics predicted last month that the global mobile phone market would shrink 9% in [...]
Microsoft enterprise mobile strategist, Randy Siegel, suggested that Obama (44th president of USA) would be better off by using Windows Mobile instead of BlackBerry (made by Canada-based RIM).
Microsoft felt it is not wise of the President to rely on a device whose maker is based in Canada. He could risked sending his data outside the country [...]
It has been reported in the Chinese language Commercial Times, that AT&T’s recent launch of HTC Fuze aka HTC Touch Pro, the first HTC-branded smartphone sold through the US telecom services provider, will bring HTC to compete directly with Apple and RIM (Research in Motion) in the US smartphone market.
The HTC FUZE (aka HTC Touch Pro [...]
How many form factors do you have for iPhone, Blackberry, Palm, Symbian, and Windows Mobile? Check out below the compilation from Pocketnow:
iphone has only one form factor
BlackBerry has two currently with two on the way (candybar QWERTY, candybar SureType, flip SureType, and no keyboard)
Palm has two (candybar QWERTY and no keyboard)\
Symbian does a bit better [...]
Over 100+ millions smartphones are sold every year and according to UMPCPortal, 95% of the market share goes to Nokia Symbian (65%), Windows Mobile (13%), Blackberry (10%), and Apple (7%). LiMo, Android and others (mostly Linux offsprings) formed the balance 5%.
If you look at the above statistics, and if you are a developer (hardware or software), it will [...]
THIS IS WHAT I WANT.
A TINY PROJECTOR PHONE !
Remember those microprojector chips TI was working on? The ones that could potentially implant tiny DLP picoprojectors into mobile phones? They’ve entered production and should “hit the street”. CrunchGear just got a brief hands-on with the latest TI Pico projector over the weekend and according to them [...]
MobileWhack reported:
“A new Blackberry concept has just surfaced. Apparently, RIM’s thinking of using an angular keypad for future models of Blackberry. It was also revealed that the same design might be used for the onscreen keypad of future touch-screen Blackberry phones. The company claims it will make things easier for the user. We hope so, [...]
Once upon a time you went a-ga-ga over a 500 MB SD. SanDisk is taking you to cloud nine with their just-launched 8GB microSDHC. Wow! That’s sharp!
Compatible with the new breed of mobile phones with card slots, the 8GB SanDisk microSDHC and M2 cards are ideal for the growing number of consumers who make their mobile phone—with [...]
