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
LG confirms Android tablet for Q4 2010 launch, Froyo for Optimus Z
Now this is jolly good news. LG, which already has a Windows 7 tablet in the works, is gearing up to service those with a hankering for some Android in their slate computers as well
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: 2010, current, engadget, fourth, froyo, future, google-centric, launch, optimus z, quarter-as-well, schedule, slate, spec, tablet
Android 3.0 Gingerbread getting revamped UI, Froyo living on for lower-end phones?
Last we'd heard, the next major release of Android -- codename Gingerbread -- was scheduled for a fourth-quarter launch , but the always-entertaining Eldar Murtazin has apparently just spilled a few details on what he knows of the release on a Russian podcast.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: eldar murtazin, fourth, from-the-fancy, gingerbread, holidays, laying, outset, podcast, quarter, specs, verizon, windows
Nokia’s C1 and C2 series try hard not to break even the smallest of banks
It looks like Nokia's conversion from the time-tested four-digit naming scheme to the one-letter, one-number strategy may be nearing completion now that the company has announced a new series of ultra-low end candybars that all have homes within the Cseries . The C1 is actually a three-pack of phones -- the C1-00, C1-01, and C1-02 -- all of which feature Nokia's longest standby time ever (quoted at six weeks ) along with a color display, integrated flashlight, 3.5mm headphone hack, and FM radio; the 01 and 02 variants add microSD slots, while the 01 also features a VGA camera and the 00 becomes Nokia's very first dual-SIM device to hit the market. The C2 is also a dual-SIM device, but unlike the C1-00, the C2 can keep both SIMs active simultaneously, meaning you'll be able to get calls and messages to either SIM without manually switching.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: camera, cseries, Flashlight, fourth, hack, slot, Supply, the-time-tested, time
Motorola posts another tiny quarterly profit, phone division not yet pulling its weight
Moto's earnings for the first quarter came out today, and they pretty much echo what the company managed to do in the fourth quarter of 2009 -- pull a small profit thanks to performance from the Home, Enterprise Mobility, and Network groups in the face of an operating loss from the Mobile Devices (read: phones) division. Unfortunately, all of the numbers are just a little bit worse across the board; Motorola didn't have any Droid -style blockbuster launches or major gift-giving holidays to help it along this quarter, and ended up dropping $192 million in the hole compared to $132 million in the quarter prior
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: devices, earnings, earningsreport, fourth, lead-the-spun, mobile, mobility, moto, network
Sprint turns in larger loss in fourth quarter, subscribers still leaving
Though you'd have to argue that Sprint is a leaner, smarter company than it was a couple years ago, it's not out of the woods yet. The company's fourth quarter earnings show that it's still losing money to the tune of $980 million -- a $502 million decline from the quarter prior -- and net wireless subscribers declined by some 148,000, though there's a lot of hand-waving here (iDEN lost 504,000 subs, for example, while the CDMA network actually gained 3,000, and there were a couple big acquisitions thrown into the mix). Churn decreased slightly against both the third quarter and the fourth quarter of '08 -- a good sign, to be sure -- and ARPUs were generally up, though prepaid ARPU specifically took a hit as a result of the Virgin Mobile buy ; who knew that Virgin customers had lower ARPUs than Boost's
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: decline, earnings report, faith, financial, flow, fourth, htc, mobile, money, quarters, sprint, virgin-mobile
Xperia X10 lands on Vodafone UK in April
We don't have pricing, we don't have specific dates, we just thought we'd let you know that Sony Ericsson's already outdated Android phone is arriving in the UK in April. This agrees with the release schedules for Japan and Germany , making the fourth month of the year seem like a certainty for the global launch of what is still a hotly anticipated device. Just why the X10 engenders such fervor, we're not really sure, but it still marks Sony Ericsson's most aggressive plunge into the smartphone shark pool yet
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: fourth, japan, launch, release, schedules, smartphone, sony, sony-ericsson, sonyericssonx10, the-smartphone, x10, xperiax10, year
Sony Ericsson stems — but doesn’t stop — losses in fourth quarter
Sony Ericsson still has a hell of a trek to get back on its feet, but by all appearances, it's taking baby steps toward that goal on news of its fourth quarter '09 earnings. The joint venture did €1.75 billion (about $2.47 billion) in sales in the most recent reported quarter -- an improvement of €131 million over the quarter prior -- and posted an operating margin of -2 percent, an improvement of 10 percent against the third quarter and the closest Sony Ericsson has come to turning a profit since 2008. Here's the problem, though: that operating margin reflects data before €150 million in restructuring charges.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: back-on-its, entry, ericsson, fourth, joint, margin-reflects, quarter-prior, quarterly report, report, sonyericsson, Steps, venture
HTC facing increasing competition amid new availability of Android …
International investment institutions have mostly turned more conservative about the business outlook for Taiwan-based smartphone vendor HTC (High Tech Computer) in the fourth quarter of 2009 due to the increasing availability of ...
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: ads-by-google, business, china, chinese, europe, fourth, handset, htc, memory, mobile, Mobile Phone, portable, storage, taiwan, telecom
MobileTechNews – Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Declined
Egham, UK -- Worldwide mobile phone sales totalled 286.1 million units in the second quarter of 2009, a 6.1 per cent decrease from the second quarter of 2008, according to Gartner, Inc.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, BlackBerry, channel, ericsson, fourth, gartner, htc, iphone, mobile, Mobile Phone, motorola, palm-treo-pro, samsung, smartphone, windows