Best Buy sees big drop in TV sales, eases pain with beefy mobile revenue
Best Buy's stock took a 14.8 percent beating today on news that it earned $217 million in the third quarter -- a 4.4 percent decline year over year -- and felt compelled to revise its fourth quarter forecast downwards. The reason? Seems folks are holding off on buying televisions in a big way: the company suffered a "low-double digit' decline in boob tube sales, even worse than an industry average in the single digits, which would suggest that 2010's 3D revolution hasn't attracted the kind of consumer attention manufacturers (and content providers) would've liked
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: beating-today, bestbuy, consumer, devices, digit-increases, entry, financial, fourth, mobile-revenue, result, revolution-hasn, sales, stock
Consumer Cellular rolls out Mobile Captions Service atop Nokia E5
MVNO Consumer Cellular is now offering Mobile Captions Service, an on-phone text relay system that allows deaf and hard of hearing users to see what's being said to them on the screen.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: accurate-enough, consumer, flexibility, hamilton-relay, make-it-work, mobile caption, mobilecaptionservice, nokia, push-the-text, relay service, relay-operators
NTT DoCoMo launches, no joke, 28 phones; pegs December 24th for LTE launch
NTT DoCoMo and its Japanese competitors have a long, rich history of announcing dozens of new phones in one fell swoop, but the carrier is saying that its latest line -- comprised of a mind-bending 28 devices -- is its largest single launch ever.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 1080P, Carrier, competitors, consumer, docomo, engadget, hotspots, Modem, notables, touchscreens, unlimited-data
HTC Trophy review
Why yes, yes it is another Windows Phone 7 device review. Not that we're complaining
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: consumer, htchub, relevancy, slate-offering, thoughts, trophy, windows phone 7, windows-mobile, windowsphone7, wp7, wp7 launch
Nexus One lives on as Google’s official developer phone
Well, it looks like the now slightly dated Google Ion finally has an official successor -- Google has just announced that the Nexus One is its new developer phone.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nexus one, Other Tags: after-the-break, consumer, developer, developers, engadget, entry, like-the-nexus, like-the-now, mobile, result, specs-on-google, tell-tale-bands
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
Lenovo’s Liu Chuanzhi: ‘we are lucky that Steve Jobs has such a bad temper and doesn’t care about China’
We're guessing that Lenovo chairman Liu Chaunzhi didn't intend spark a slew of sensational headlines when he spoke briefly with the Financial Times this week, but he did make a few statements that are hard to ignore (yet easily misinterpreted).
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, china, consumer, engadget, financial, financial-times, slew, Steve, steve-jobs, stevejobs
San Francisco passes cellphone radiation law to help, confuse consumers
Oh San Francisco, you and your progressive ways. The city just passed a law -- a first in the US -- requiring retailers to post the Specific Absorption Rates (aka SAR, the rate at which at which energy is absorbed by the body) in no less than 11-point font right next to any cellphone being sold. Sounds good as far as consumer education goes, right
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: absorption, cellphone, consumer, dangerous, entry, good-as-far, law, least-the-law, rate-at-which, result, san, specific
NASDAQ and CEA announce Smartphone Index
The NASDAQ isn't exactly our usual beat here at Engadget, but it's not every day that a consumer electronics market segment gets elevated to the status of having its own index, which is what the stock exchange has now done with a little help from the Consumer Electronics Association . They've teamed up for the NASDAQ OMX CEA Smartphone Index, which consists of 84 companies that are involved in one way or another with the "building, design and distribution of handsets, hardware, software, and mobile networks associated with the development, sale and usage of smartphones." We're having a bit of trouble tracking down the complete list of companies included in the index, but it does apparently have the usual suspects like Apple, Google and RIM, and it has started out with a valuation 250.00
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: association, consumer, electronics, entry, exchange, list, mobile, nasdaq, networks, smartphone
Confirmed: Marketplace will be the only way to get apps on Windows Phone 7 Series
We just got out of a meeting with Microsoft's Todd Biggs, who dropped a little bombshell on us: the only official way to get apps on a Windows Phone 7 Series device will be to download them from the just-detailed Windows Phone Marketplace. That means developers will have to abide by Microsoft's technical and content guidelines in order to make it in, with the very real possibility of rejection -- sound familiar? Todd told us Microsoft plans to avoid Apple-style submission headaches by making the process transparent and predictable, with a group of Microsoft execs regularly meeting to examine edge cases and refine the guidelines as needed, but even the best intentions can be led astray by a sexy app or two.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: biggs, consumer, developers, engadget, even-the-best, marketplace, windows phone 7, windows-phone