phones

Windows Phone 7 with no copy/paste feature

Published on: 18th March, 2010

According to Engadget, at the MIX10 event, Microsoft said it’s true that the Windows Phone 7 platform will not offer support for clipboard operations. These comments might come as a surprise for many, because copy and paste functionality has been featured on previous generations of the company’s Windows Mobile software.
Apple has also been criticized as [...]

Apple’s lawsuit against HTC generates chilling of smartphone development

Published on: 18th March, 2010

Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner is claiming that the lawsuit against HTC continues a long series of threats against its competitors and is the culmination of these threats. Industry checks reveal that beginning this year in January, Apple had a lot of talks with cell phone makers and expressed an intense displeasure of what it considers [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Archos’ camera-toting player competes with iPod nano

Published on: 6th March, 2010

The new Vision players for this year have been revealed by Archos through a German release. The A30VC chases directly the fifth-generation iPod nano and has a camera incorporated on its back. Unlike its rival, the A30VC can not only capture videos but also shots. It replaces the Archos 3 Vision and also has a [...]

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 [...]

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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