smartphones

Apple on the top in 2010 Loyalty Index for notebooks and smartphones

Published on: 14th March, 2010

Brand Keys’ 2010 Loyalty Index reveals two important victories for Apple. Thanks to the iPhone, Apple is first in the top of the researchers’ smartphone ranks, while unibody MacBooks helped it be first in the full-size notebook computer category, ahead of Dell and other Windows PC brands. Although Apple does not make a netbook effectively, [...]

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 [...]

HTC Incredible has been recently spotted

Published on: 1st March, 2010

A recent leaked video supposedly shows the future HTC smartphone – Incredible. The handset seems to pair HTC’s Sense UI with Android 2.1. It also benefits from a Snapdragon CPU and from a 3.7-inch WVGA touchscreen (the same as for the Nexus One). The other rumored features include an optical trackpad, a 5-megapixel camera, which [...]

Motorola Cliq updated with improved battery life and Quick Office 2

Published on: 1st March, 2010

Motorola has recently used its support forums to reveal that the software update 1.3.18 for the Cliq smartphone has been released. Already made available to most of the users, the update should improve the battery life, boosted GPS performance and the sensitivity of the touchscreen. It also provides Quick Office 2 that allows users to [...]

Acer Liquid e to upgrade the A1

Published on: 18th February, 2010

As part of the smartphone updates, Acer has recently updated the flagship model, in order to benefit from the new software. The Liquid e is intended to replace the A1 by upgrading to Android 2.1; it also gets the new software features (this includes the new web browser and some dynamic wallpapers, similar to those [...]

Clearer, smaller cellphone cameras from Samsung

Published on: 17th February, 2010

Samsung has recently announced the production of two new CMOS image sensors for smartphones: the SSK4E2 and the S5K5CA. The two chips are specially designed to fit the current standard 6.5mm square for very thin cellphones.
The SSK4E2 is able to record still images and also full HD (1080p) video. The S5K5CA can only record still [...]

Factory retooling and job cutting at Nokia, focusing on smartphones

Published on: 13th February, 2010

The role of a key plant in Salo, Finland would completely change in order to focus on smartphone production. High-value smartphones would be manufactured in this factory, having Europe as a priority. Nokia expects to get a better mix of hardware but also a quicker turnaround in manufacturing the smartphones as a major change.
A first [...]

Voice translation feature for smartphones from Google

Published on: 13th February, 2010

On February 7, 2010, Google announced the possibility of voice-to-voice translation for phones, being the first company to do this. Based on existing text conversion, voice recognition and search from Android, the company seems to be currently developing a new system which will be able to recognize a spoken foreign language and reproduce the text [...]

Samsung’s Android-based Galaxy 2 spotted

Published on: 3rd February, 2010

The upcoming Galaxy 2 smartphone has recently appeared in a press image. Like the Nexus One and other high-end handsets, Samsung’s Galaxy 2 is expected to integrate a 1GHz Snapdragon processor and 32GB of internal memory. A 3.7-inch AMOLED touchscreen, a 5-megapixel camera and a set of usual smartphone specifications like GPS and Wi-Fi are [...]

Nokia sees its smartphone share back to 40 percent

Published on: 31st January, 2010

The Finnish phone maker Nokia seems to recover after a successful fall season 2009. The 20.8 million devices shipped in the fall are much above the 16.4 million in the summer. The estimated 52.4 million smartphones Nokia shipped in the entire market compared to only 47 million make the company jump from the lower 35 [...]

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