Huawei bids high, loses hard on two major US assets
Huawei has been kicking for well over two decades, and while a great deal of its business revolves around the enterprise, the company still has a presence in the consumer arena (most recently with its S7 tablet ).
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: arena, assets, business, consumer, engadget, enterprise, huawei, security
Samsung Galaxy S review shootout: Captivate for AT&T and Vibrant for T-Mobile
We've got to hand it to Samsung with its Galaxy S line. Coordinating the launch of a single family of devices across all four national US carriers (plus a regional or two) is a feat very rarely accomplished, and usually reserved for really unique handsets that those carriers wouldn't be able to effectively source from anyone else; HTC's Touch Pro2 is a prime example of that. Add to that the murky issue of exclusivity periods..
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other, htc, nexus one Tags: business, challenge, entry, exclusivity, family, fascinate, launch, models, murky, samsung, single, vibrant, words
FLO TV losing money, Qualcomm looking for an out?
So it seems that founding and operating a broadcast mobile TV business is no mean feat: as mocoNews points out, there is spectrum to be purchased and transmission towers to be networked -- all before you can sell electronics manufacturers on carrying your chipset in their devices. Unfortunately for Qualcomm , it looks like FLO TV has been something less than profitable, a reality that CEO Paul Jacobs owned up to in the company's Q3 conference call.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: business, conference, entry, jacobs, mediaflo, personal, points, radio, satellite, something-less, television, towers, transmission
Google’s Larry Page: Steve Jobs is ‘rewriting history’ by saying Android came after the iPhone
Steve Jobs might have thought he was lightly playing down reports that the Apple / Google rivalry had dramatically changed when he said " they decided to compete with us -- we didn't go into the search business" at D8 , but it appears that his phrasing didn't sit so well with Larry Page, who told Reuters yesterday that Jobs was doing a "little bit of rewriting history," and that the "characterization of us entering [the phone market] after is not really reasonable." Page, who was being interviewed alongside Eric Schmidt, also said that Google had been working on Android for "a very long time" and that the goal was always to develop phones with solid browsers to fill a market void.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other, htc Tags: apple, black, business, campaign, iphone, jobs, larry-page, palm, reuters
Samsung announces rugged Xcover handset with 67-day standby time
Prefer your cellphone to be more tough than smart ?
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: business, europe, ip54, message, phone, phone-should, resistance, rugged, samsung, samsungxcover, xcover
Australia to pay Telstra A$11 billion for entire copper network
The Australian government just found the infrastructure for its A$43 billion national broadband project and eliminated its largest competitor in one fell swoop -- pending shareholder and regulator approval, Telstra will receive A$11 billion of that money in exchange for its entire landline network. Telstra will decommission its monopoly of copper cables to make room for the government's fiber and migrate its customers to the resulting 100Mbps National Broadband Network (NBN) as those light-bearing threads roll out
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 100mbps, business, competitor, national, should-the-deal, spectrum, telstra, wireless
Nokia’s 16 model house reveals a smokin’ S series, N9 MeeGo?
Lovely home except for those pesky leaks . This Nokia house built (circa 2010) upon on a foundation of Symbian with a MeeGo roof is also sporting an interesting looking S-series smokestack. Most of the building blocks we've already seen including the flagship N8 .
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: building, business, class, flagship, nokia, price, revelation, smokestack, smokin
HTC EVO 4G splayed, found to contain wires, chips
Often, iFixit needs to wait for a product to be released before it can spend a few hundred bucks buying one and tearing it asunder -- but in the case of the EVO 4G , Google's pre-release of units to attendees at IO appears to have been just the kind of event these guys needed to get in the door early. Taking the phone apart is described as a "wonderfully easy" process, and changing the screen's glass is said to be pretty easy as well -- good news considering how easy it'll probably be to crack those 4.3 inches of pure WVGA glory
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, htc Tags: business, chips, easy-as-well, engadget, evo, evo4g, full-rundown, htc, phone, process, released-before, silicon, surprises, teardown
How-to: push Chrome / Firefox links to your Android 2.2 Froyo device (video)
While we absolutely adore our Nexus One -- now that it's got a bellyful of that fabulous frozen yogurt -- one of the most exciting Android additions shown off at Google I/O isn't actually slated for Froyo: the ability to push apps and music over the air from computer to phone.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, htc, nexus one Tags: apps, browserextensions, business, chrome, cloudcomputing, continuousclient, data sharing, extensions, foray, google-android, over-the-air, push, web
AT&T: 40 percent of iPhones are enterprise, Android ‘built with a very specific focus to consumers’
It isn't just Verizon's Lowell McAdam with fascinating commentary at this Barclays Capital tech conference going down in New York this week. Ron Spears, who leads up AT&T's Business Solutions division, had some notable things to say about enterprise mobility -- specifically, the iPhone's role in taking businesses to the road, a magic trick typically associated almost exclusively with BlackBerry over the past ten years
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: apple, barclays, black, business, introduction, lowell, mcadam, spears