smartphones

MeeGo device head left Nokia

Published on: 8th October, 2010

Another setback troubled Nokia’s smartphone plans. Rumors are that the MeeGo devices vice president Ari Jaaksi had left the company a week ago. No reason was given for his departure but it was said that the company’s plans related to having a MeeGo device ready to ship by the end of this year would not [...]

First official PalmPad webOS tablet reference made by HP executive

Published on: 5th October, 2010

Hewlett Packard executive Todd Bradley has for the first time referred to the upcoming webOS tablet of the company, giving it a name. The executive vice president of the Personal Systems Group, at an analyst meeting, said that HP would push the product range beyond smartphones and would introduce a “webOS-powered PalmPad”, which would be [...]

Verizon consents to iPhones being part of a new trade-in program

Published on: 5th October, 2010

Verizon has initiated a trade-in program which aims at attracting subscribers from other carriers. Those who visit Verizon’s website can have a handset appraised on a number of criteria, such as model, make and whether or not the display and voice are usable. Eligible phones include 8G models of the iPhone 3G and 3GS as [...]

Ballmer admitted Kin had stolen focus from Windows Phone

Published on: 5th October, 2010

In an interview, Microsoft’s chief Steve Ballmer admitted the Kin phones have been a fundamental mistake of his company. According to Microsoft’s executive, the basic feature phones had weakened Microsoft’s concentration on Windows Phone 7. In order to succeed, a device had to be both advanced and very concentrated. Ballmer said that many things were [...]

Sony extends legal action against PS3 “jailbreak” modification distributors

Published on: 5th October, 2010

Sony has extended its legal action pointing to distributors of PS3 “jailbreak” modifications. The initial lawsuit of the company was directed against the owners of PS Jailbreak, but recent documents show that PSFreedom, PSGroove and OpenPSJailbreak are also targeted now. Motions permitting Sony to serve subpoenas and deposition notices were granted by US District Judge. [...]

Boost Mobile to pair new smartphones and unlimited plans for data

Published on: 30th September, 2010

Until recently, many prepaid carriers did not have either smartphone options or appropriate plans intended for massive data usage. One of the first carriers to accommodate prepaid customers willing to upgrade their phones and take advantage of a similar level of service usually connected to yearly contracts is Boost Mobile. When looking more attentively at [...]

Nokia N8 postponed for October due to software glitches

Published on: 25th September, 2010

Nokia seems to have encountered another hold up for the release of its N8; the company declared that it had to postpone the launch of the handset for a few weeks because of some software bugs. Nokia had originally put the Symbian^3 flagship on track for late September, but it currently expects it to ship [...]

Nokia sells 260,000 phones daily, attacks Apple

Published on: 17th September, 2010

Niklas Savander, Nokia’s executive vice president, at Nokia World day, used much of the time to criticize Apple and minimize Google. He said that both companies had questionable sales figures and claimed that Nokia has sold 260,000 phones daily during the summer, more than Apple and Android together, in his opinion. He also said expectations [...]

Consumer Reports says end to case program of iPhone 4 is not fair

Published on: 17th September, 2010

Consumer Reports has severely criticized Apple for its decision to finish the iPhone case program at this month’s end. It referred to a less consumer friendly procedure in case customers wanted to contact AppleCare, as they would have to do more work in order to address problems related to signal drop and their choices would [...]

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 [...]

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