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Windows Phone 7 sales not limited exclusively to retail stores, says AT&T

Published on: 8th November, 2010

AT&T has recently made clear its policies related to the launch of Windows Phone 7 after a mistaken announcement coming from a store manager who said that the devices would only be available at retail locations. Orders can also be placed online, but no device will be available to pre-order. As it seems, the carrier [...]

Analyst believes tablet market would become controlled by Android

Published on: 16th October, 2010

Piper Jaffray’s analyst Gene Munster suggests that despite the current success of the iPad, Android will control the largest part of the tablet market. He told Business Insider that Apple would not have the majority of the tablet market share and probably Android would have it. Piper Jaffray’s analyst was also skeptical about sources claiming [...]

HTC Mozart has a support page on Orange UK

Published on: 12th October, 2010

Orange UK quasi-confirmed its plans related to the launch of the HTC Mozart smartphone by listing first-time setup directions for the handset on the carrier’s support page. There is not much information about the specifications of the phone. Information about installing the SIM card or the battery is missing and there is no reference to [...]

Google executive defending company’s flexibility related to changing or expanding Android OS

Published on: 12th October, 2010

Google’s vice president of engineering Andy Rubin defended the flexibility of his company when permitting carriers to expand or change the Android operating system. While interviewed by PCMag, Google’s official minimized the platform’s current fragmentation. He suggested that consumer demand would force companies to keep the most recent versions of the operating system, although the [...]

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 [...]

Google to replace phone store with Android gallery

Published on: 5th October, 2010

Google has recently replaced the defunct Nexus One store with the new Google Phone Gallery as a possible blow to some of its partners. The site spotlights Android phones, but ostentatiously those strictly using Google services such as YouTube and Google search. The mix is dependent on the country, as for example Motorola’s Droid 2, [...]

Supplier orders for Apple extended to early 2011

Published on: 25th September, 2010

Apple has so heavy device orders that it is asking its suppliers for orders to be shipped in early 2011, according to sources from assemblers and chipset producers. The main products of the company, the iPad, MacBook, iPhone and iPod still have a strong demand, so that Apple is scheduling orders into 2011. The sources [...]

iPhone’s profits greatly exceed the number of handsets sold

Published on: 25th September, 2010

According to T. Michael Walkley, Canaccord Genuity analyst, Apple’s share of cellphone industry profits is vastly disproportionate to the number of iPhones the company actually sells. Apple has sold almost 17 million iPhones in the first 6 months of 2010, compared to the 400 million devices sold by Nokia, Samsung and LG combined. Despite this, [...]

Is Google’s tablet strategy clear enough?

Published on: 1st September, 2010

Debating the importance of the tablet space is probably not necessary nowadays. Arguments that can be brought in its favor would be as notorious as is Apple itself. But it is important to know that it is not enough at all to only have a new device and simply throwing it on the market. And [...]

HTC claims to have far fewer reception complaints than Apple

Published on: 22nd July, 2010

HTC responded to Apple’s recent cellphone reception defense and pointed to its phones’ low problem rate. Apple had claimed to have 0.55 percent of reception problems calls to AppleCare. HTC said that its same rate related to the Droid Eris, indicated by Apple as having such problems, was not higher than 0.016 percent. Eric Lin, [...]

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