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Over 50 ARM tablets expected in 2010

Published on: 14th March, 2010

ARM’s global mobile device ODM manager recently said the number of touchscreen tablets using ARM chips would really explode in 2010. Roy Chen anticipates more than 50 shipping during the whole year, the first of them scheduled in the spring and meant for cellular carriers. A lot more would be delivered in the summer, according [...]

The market for smartphone apps could grow by eight times in three years

Published on: 9th March, 2010

According to a recent research2guidance estimate, in the next three years, the smartphone applications market could grow by more than eight times. Last year’s revenue has reached about $1.94 billion; by 2013, the market could grow over 807 percent, to almost $15.65 billion. The prediction has been based on a major push into smartphones around [...]

Extra details on Microsoft’s Pure and Turtle

Published on: 9th March, 2010

More details concerning Microsoft’s new phones, Pure and Turtle, have been leaking lately. The two new handsets seem to benefit from simple and possibly colorful designs. Moreover, it is already rumored that both the conventional Turtle and the squat-looking Pure will be soon available on Verizon. Despite the possible May or June release date, Engadget [...]

Surprise! HTC claims that Nexus One should not be placed in pockets

Published on: 9th March, 2010

It seems that some HTC support representatives have declared to a CNET UK employee that their cracked display of the Nexus One has been caused by keeping the mobile device in a pocket. Pocketing a handset amongst other objects (for example, keys) can cause the glass’ fracturing. Despite this, users claim that the handset was [...]

Cell phones’ displays could be combined thanks to Motorola’s patent

Published on: 9th March, 2010

On March 4th, 2010, a Motorola patent published at the US Patent and Trademark Office has been spotted, suggesting the idea that the company may be planning to combine handheld displays. Considering the fact that different sizes of displays are needed for various different tasks, the patent intends to allow two or more phones, mobile [...]

HTC’s Desire and Legend, soon available in the UK

Published on: 6th March, 2010

On March 5th, 2010, Amazon UK has set a release date for the UK, for the HTC phones launched in February, at the Mobile World Congress. Desire and Legend, which are both Android-based, are said to be available in the UK on April 1st, being priced at £529 ($795) and £400 ($601) (prices are available [...]

Nokia opens its Cseries with the C5 phone

Published on: 6th March, 2010

The start of a new phone line, a quite rare event for Nokia, was recently marked by the launch of the C5, the first phone in the Cseries. The new range is meant to bring smartphone-level software to a very entry level and is powered by Symbian S60, everything in a candybar shape. Although the [...]

The Pure phone from Microsoft spotted at FCC

Published on: 2nd March, 2010

The rumoured Project Pink phones of Microsoft gain more support as a recently discovered FCC filing can be correlated with the design of the Pure phone. Following the confirmation of the Turtle, the second design of the Project Pink seems to have surfaced as the Sharp PB20ZU. It would have a touchscreen design and a [...]

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 [...]

The new Windows Phone 7-equipped LG device

Published on: 2nd March, 2010

In January, an issued report was claiming that LG is about to release its first Windows Phone 7-equipped device somewhere in September. On February 25, 2010, news from China seem to confirm the report. Even if initially the device was announced as being launched in September, the company has put a range on the release [...]

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