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Long-awaited Skype for Android has been released

Published on: 12th October, 2010

Skype has recently announced the release of the long-awaited Skype for Android. It is possible now for phones running Android 2.1 to download the free application which makes available free Skype-to-Skype calls through Wi-Fi for users in the United States only. European users as well as those from other continents will be able to make [...]

HTC Droid Eris dropped by Verizon ahead of Droid X

Published on: 27th June, 2010

Verizon has discreetly dropped the HTC Droid Eris from its phone schedule, just before the presentation of the Droid X. This Android-based smartphone has been launched in November 2009 and it currently seems to let more expensive devices, such as the Droid Devour and Droid Incredible, take its place. Even if Verizon hasn’t explained the [...]

Verizon’s Droid X teaser to confirm leaked details

Published on: 25th June, 2010

On June 21, 2010, Verizon posted a Droid X teaser video, just before the unveiling of the device, which will take place two days later. Even if the clip doesn’t offer too many details on the Droid X, it confirms a TV ad leak, but also that the information rumored on the phone is mostly [...]

Next generation Droid phones presented on June 23rd

Published on: 21st June, 2010

According to some invites sent by Motorola, Verizon, Google and Adobe, there will be an event showing the next generation of Droid handsets. This will be an invite-only event, taking place on June 23; the exact location of the event, which will happen in New York, hasn’t yet been mentioned on the online posted invite. [...]

Companies from Korea overtake Motorola on the United States market

Published on: 11th June, 2010

Samsung and LG have ended Motorola’s reign as a top-selling brand on the US phone market. Motorola’s loss is slight, but big enough to place it third with 21.6 percent. Meanwhile, Samsung grew enough to reach the first place with 22.1 percent. LG is ranked second at 21.8 percent. The influence of Research in Motion [...]

Droid’s support makes Motorola come closer to Apple in customer happiness

Published on: 2nd June, 2010

A new Change Wave study reveals that Apple is still leading in the customer happiness ranking but is followed closely by Motorola. About 77 percent of the iPhone customers are very satisfied, while the Droid pushed Motorola to a surprising 64 percent. Other companies have significantly less, with Android’s maker HTC at 51 percent and [...]

BlackBerry stops iPhone’s ascension in the United States

Published on: 18th March, 2010

Research in Motion’s BlackBerry line succeeded to hold off Apple to reach the top place for United States smartphone market share at the beginning of this year. According to comScore data, the BlackBerry line only grew slightly but remained to exactly 43 percent of the industry. Apple reached a milestone and now it has more [...]

Owners of iPhone most eager to recommend their phones

Published on: 2nd March, 2010

It seems iPhone and iPod owners are the most inclined to recommend their devices to friends, as latest researches reveal. A high number of iPhone users, about 91 percent, and 88 percent of iPod touch owners would gladly tell their friends to buy such devices, as January information says. At the same time, only 84 [...]

Palm has cut guidance due to unexpected slow sales

Published on: 2nd March, 2010

Palm has cut its guidance for the current quarter and expects to have between $285 million and $310 million in revenue. The company directly incriminates the “slower than expected” take up of the Pixi, the Pre and their Plus equivalents. It is also a fact that carriers have ordered fewer devices and occasionally delayed receiving [...]

MOTOROI to be sold as Droid tablet in the United States in March

Published on: 25th January, 2010

The just-launched MOTOROI is the origin of what will become the Droid tablet in the United States, according to senior VP Bae Joon-dong from SK Telecom. The phone lacks a keyboard but it is expected to be in many ways superior to the Droid with its 8-megapixel camera and support for 720-pixel video playback through [...]

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