Garmin officially exits the smartphone business, reports mixed Q3 earnings
Based on our experience with relationships, we've learned that it takes two to tango. It also takes two to produce co-branded wares, and with ASUS already withdrawing (respectfully, of course) from the ill-fated Garmin-Asus smartphone partnership, this here is more a formality than anything else
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: aviation, earnings, efforts, engadget, garmin-asus, gps, Kill, our-experience, partnership, q3 2010, quarterly, result
Sony earnings call entertains PlayStation Phone, reveals tablets are on the radar
Earnings calls aren't usually that interesting, and that's doubly true when trying to listen via official translators. Still, we couldn't help but give an ear to Sony's fiscals, and sure enough, someone asked about our ( still real ) PlayStation Phone leak . We're not sure who answered since it's through interpreter, either Executive VP / CFO Masaru Kato or Senior General Manager of Investor Relations Division Gen Tsuchikawa (we're assuming the former)
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: background, Capabilities, earnings, headquarters, interpreter, notion, phone, playstation, projectzeus, smartphone, sony, sonyericsson, station-phone
IDC: Apple passes RIM to become fourth largest mobile phone vendor globally as Nokia, LG, and Sony Ericsson struggle
Can you remember the day when Apple's audacious plan to sell 10 million iPhones in its first year was greeted with extreme skepticism within the cellphone industry. Now the computer company is shipping 14.1 million handsets every three months according to the latest IDC numbers, moving Apple into fourth place on its Top 5 list of mobile phone vendors worldwide.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, cellphone, earnings, emerging, gaining, leader, markets, momentum, rim, since-the-same, sonyericsson, strongholds
Sprint fails to impress Wall Street with Q3 2010 earnings, still notches 644k net adds
Sprint certainly isn't out of the woods yet, but at least it's picking up customers from somewhere. The company's Q3 2010 earnings were ushered out today, and while its stock fell around ten percent on the news, a few silver linings were present. The carrier saw postpaid subscriber losses of 107,000, but that's an 87 percent improvement compared to Q3 2009.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 2010, 2010-earnings, cdma, earning, earnings, linings, network, news, operator, q32010, quickly-fade, specifics, still-notches
Motorola’s Jha says MOTOBLUR brand will fade from view
We'd already had a pretty good indication that Motorola was shifting its strategy when it came to MOTOBLUR , and it looks like co-CEO Sanjay Jha has now finally made that move official.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: earnings, entry, jha, motoblur, motorola, proposition, sanjay, will-continue
AT&T’s bullish earnings report suggests iPhone exclusivity is almost over
You can tell a product ranks high in the public consciousness when something like this is news: AT&T's quarterly earnings report makes it sound like the telecom may finally lose its iPhone exclusivity deal. While a class-action lawsuit recently confirmed the handset was originally locked to AT&T / Cingular for a full five years , the company's Q2 SEC filing has the company making a considerable number of familiar excuses why AT&T's cellular business will thrive even "as these exclusivity arrangements end." While the iPhone isn't mentioned by name, it's hard to imagine sentences like "We believe offering a wide variety of handsets reduces dependence on any single handset" could refer to anything else -- but before you start defecting to Team Red, know there's nothing in there that suggests a date, much less proof of the fabled CDMA iPhone. AT&T's bullish earnings report suggests iPhone exclusivity is almost over originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 08 Aug 2010 11:24:00 EST
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: att, earnings, exclusivity, industry, iphone, iphoneexclusivity, product-ranks, public, q22010, quarterlyearnings, telecom
Clearwire puts its money where its mouth is, announces LTE trials for later this year
In spite of its pretty healthy (and growing) WiMAX footprint, Clearwire's been saying for at least a year now that it's seriously technology-agnostic -- undoubtedly a bid to assuage investors' fears that WiMAX could end up losing the 4G race in light of LTE's global momentum. Well, it's finally more than mindless fluff for an earnings call, because the company's getting real with both FDD and TD-LTE trials in Phoenix starting this Fall running through early 2011 that will allegedly push downlink speeds as high as 20Mbps and "showcase unique advantages" of Clearwire's "vast" reserve of spectrum. They'll also be testing LTE's ability to coexist with WiMAX in the same band, presumably in a bid to show that it can migrate down the road without leaving its existing customers high and dry.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: clearwire, down-the-road, earnings, investors, mindless, phoenix, speeds-as-high, verizon, wimax
AT&T announces 26 percent earnings growth for Q2, $4b profit
There may be plenty of tales of intrigue behind the scenes, but it looks like AT&T is still doing alright when it comes to raking in the cash -- it's now announced a 26 percent increase in earnings for the quarter that's just ended. In terms of hard numbers, that translates to a profit of $4.02 billion (up from $3.2 billion a year ago), and $30.8 billion in revenue, which is actually up just 0.6 percent over the previous year, although that modest gain is partly attributed to AT&T's sale of Sterling Commerce to IBM for $1.4 billion (which is not included in its results).
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: 90-1-million, after-the-break, att, earnings, entry, intrigue, iphone, notable, now-announced, press-release, profit, quarter, result, revenue, revenue-quarter
Sony Ericsson posts second consecutive profitable quarter
Sony Ericsson managed to keep the good times rolling in the second quarter of 2010, posting its second consecutive razor-thin net profit -- this time of €12 million (about $15.6 million) on sales of €1.757 billion ($2.284 billion).
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: black, earnings, earningsreport, entry, ericsson, mobile, over-the-past, sonyericsson, time, vivaz, xperia
Clearwire promises Clear-branded HTC and Samsung WiMAX phones this year
Without going into much detail, Clearwire mentioned on its first quarter earnings call today that WiMAX-capable phones bearing the Clear name from both Samsung and HTC are "expected" to be available before 2010's out, which is a pretty optimistic affirmation of comments the company made earlier this year. It describes the Sammy as "an Android-based 3G/4G/WiFi device optimized for heavy video and video communications use," while the HTC's language leaves out the platform -- it's just called "a 3G/4G/WiFi enabled phone," leading us to believe that this puppy could very well be running Windows Phone 7