Sprint axes Huawei, ZTE telecom bids due to security fears in Washington?
Huawei might be making inroads into the US consumer smartphone market, but the Chinese telecom supplier's attempts to break into big business have been stonewalled .
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: been-the-lowest, china, chinese, government, journal, security, street, telecom, usgovernment
RIM promises to soothe BlackBerry app developers’ woes, says ‘we’re so there’
There's no question that the BlackBerry App World hasn't been quite the runaway success RIM hoped it would be, but the company is far from ready to throw in the towel, and it's now promising some new measures to woo new developers and make the lives of current ones a bit easier. Some of those initiatives have already been rolled out -- like new payment options -- while others including a free analytics service will become available to developers in the coming weeks and months. As RIM's head of application development, Alan Brenner, explains to The Wall Street Journal , RIM has been working for the past two years to make BlackBerrys more developer friendly, and he now says that "we're so there." They may not be quite as close as they think, however, as the WSJ also spoke to a number of developers who used words like "horrible" to describe the current state of things, while leading mobile game developer PopCap Games even went so far as to say that "RIM today is not really on our radar." RIM promises to soothe BlackBerry app developers' woes, says 'we're so there' originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 16 Oct 2010 04:12:00 EST
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: application, blackberryappworld, brenner, current, games, journal, make-the-lives, result, rim, state, street
CDMA iPhone rumored for India as exclusivities end in Germany and Holland
More fuel for the CDMA iPhone fire today. The Wall Street Journal says that Apple is in talks with both Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices to bring a CDMA version of its iPhone -- the one it again says will be on sale at Verizon early next year -- to India. The discussions have apparently been ongoing for four or five months according to one WSJ source
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, india, iphone, journal, result, street-journal, teleservices, wsj
Amazon App Store for Android confirmed by WSJ
Amazon's always worked hard to make sure it's in the digital goods business as well as its obviously successful physical one, but this might be one of its boldest steps yet: another app store for Android.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: app store, couple, digital, journal, launch, mainly-talking, street, wsj
Verizon CEO confirms plans for tiered data pricing
We told you so . The Wall Street Journal has updated its recent article detailing disclosures from Verizon Wireless chief Ivan Seidenberg, and the latest news is as bad as it is predictable: VZW plans to consign unlimited data plans to the annals of history over the next four to six months, to be replaced by tiered, consumption-based pricing
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: confirms-plans, data, Data Plan, data-pricing, disclosures, history-over, ivan, journal, latest, mobile-internet, the-competition, tiered, verizon-wireless
WSJ says BlackBerry tablet could be announced as soon as next week
The Wall Street Journal is saying that RIM's now very close to being ready to show off this long-rumored tablet they've been cooking up -- and the public unveiling could come as early as next week when the company will be holding its Developer Conference in San Francisco.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: BlackBerry, journal, operating, orange, Poll, qnx, san, tablet, unveiling, wsj
Sprint and Virgin Mobile announces Beyond Talk $25 prepaid plan, new prepaid brand
Sprint Nextel, through its Virgin Mobile brand, has announced a pretty big shift in its business model by offering new prepaid plans that begin at a mind-blowing $25 a month. Starting on May 12, three new Beyond Talk plans will include unlimited messaging, email, data, and web, as well as 300 minutes ($25), 1,200 minutes ($40), or unlimited minutes ($60) of talk time
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: beyond talk, entry, handset, journal, mobile, phone, pre-paid, pre-paid wireless, prepaid-wireless, sprint, stable, street, talk, video, virginmobile
WiMAX-enabled HTC Supersonic rumored to debut on Sprint at CTIA
There's hardly anything here that we didn't already know , but an unveiling date of "next week" sure catches our eye. A new report over at The Wall Street Journal confirms earlier details that were fed to us over Sprint's first-ever WiMAX smartphone, and now we're learning that the HTC Supersonic will be officially revealed to the world at CTIA next week
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: already-know, clear, ctia 2010, ctia2010, htcincredible, journal, phone, sprint, street, street-journal, supersonic
Motorola to roll out revised plan, schism not so clear-cut anymore
Remember Motorola 's decision to pause the sale of its largest division ?
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: being-finalized, guess, handset, journal, networking, new-initiative, not-confirmed, one-third-its, public, puns, radio
Motorola pauses split to mull options
Amazing what a little success will do to a company, isn't it? The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that Motorola has put the brakes on its search for a buyer for its Home and Networks Mobility division that's responsible for the company's set-top boxes and network infrastructure equipment.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: boxes, commercial, engadget, entry, journal, mobile, network, networks, reporting-today, result, spinoff, success