RIM pulls Kik Messenger from App World, cites ‘number of issues and customer concerns’
Kik Messenger -- the real-time mobile messaging service that's seemingly taken the world by storm over the past couple weeks -- has been pulled from RIM's App World , making it a bit trickier for BlackBerry users to get hold of the app. It's easy to formulate conspiracy theories here considering that Kik might provide the single most legitimate cross-platform threat to BBM at the moment, and frankly, RIM hasn't actually said much with its official statement on the matter: "RIM became aware of a number of issues and customer concerns regarding the Kik app and service and, following discussions with Kik, the app was removed from BlackBerry App World.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: big-contributor, BlackBerry, concern, conspiracy, exponential, growth, kik, privacy-concern, result, theories, time
Ericsson estimates mobile lines have hit 5 billion, gives shout out to China and India for the help
Ericsson -- one of the world's top-tier infrastructure suppliers for mobile networks -- has crunched some numbers recently, figuring the five billionth cellphone line came into existence last Wednesday, July 8, largely from major surges in uptake in emerging markets like China and India. Mobile broadband access (which we take to mean access to 3G speeds and beyond) still trails significantly at just 360 million in 2009, though they're predicting a cool 3.4 billion users by 2015
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: earth, growth, india-mobile, infrastructure, over-the-decade, perspective, subscription, suppliers
EVO 4G shortages may hurt 4G adoption, Sprint gives customers in seven new cities the chance to be disappointed
It looks like Sprint's head start in the 4G service race may not be quite as big as the carrier would like. According to the Wall Street Journal , HTC EVO 4G handset shortages are mitigating whatever advantage the company should have, being first out of the gate with the technology
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: entry, gives-customers, growth, handset, htc evo 4g, marketing, result, shortages-may, sprint, street, street-journal, technology, tentative-steps, verizonwireless, vzw
iSuppli: OLED panel shortage a concern for Android smartphone makers
Everyone wants an OLED display on their cellphone, right? Ok, maybe not everybody , especially when compared to regular AMOLED , but we certainly want, no demand , a 4-plus inch Super AMOLED on our next Android smartphone
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: au optronics, entry, growth, massive, numbers, samsung mobile display, smd, south-korea, taiwan-based, tpo, tpo display technologies
Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo being replaced to soothe frustrated investors?
Well, here's a surprise: Reuters says Nokia might consider replacing CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo in order to please unhappy shareholders who don't see the cellphone giant effectively competing in the smartphone market.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: analyst-chatter, blood, easy, growth, investor, nokia, olli-pekka kallasvuo, ouch, smartphone, swarm
Android Market gets 9,000 new apps in March, world domination can’t be far behind
Wanna know what exponential growth looks like? Try following Android's progress over the past few months and you'll be treated to plenty of rapidly ascending charts .
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: barchart, data, entry, fledged, growth, market, mobile, proviso, solidification
AdMob Report Indicates Android Growing Rapidly | AndroidGuys
Another month, another great report from AdMob. We know Android is gaining ground in the smart phone market, especially here in the US. But where does it.
Categories: Android, htc, Other Tags: accessories, admob, article, carmen-delessio, chuck-falzone, droid, general-news, growth, opinion, podcast, raphael-savina, rapidly, report
Mobile phone operators to dominate internet market in Ghana …
The report said it was expected that by 2010 broadband would almost entirely have replaced dial-up Internet access, and 3G mobile data services, in particular, would enable large numbers of mobile phone users to gain direct personal ...
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: country, general-news, ghana, government, growth, htc, ict, internet, investment, Mobile Phone, slideshow, statistics, voice
Just Another Mobile Phone Blog: Mobile Operator Data Business …
The explosive growth in mobile data service offerings, service provider data revenues, and smart phone and mobile broadband device unit shipments during the past two years is spurring a dramatic shift for the global cellular industry ...
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: another-mobile, business-models, growth, htc, microsoft, Mobile Phone, phone, windows