AMOLED shortage to become a surplus in 2011
Samsung's beautiful Super AMOLED panels are becoming more and more common in mobile devices, but they're not as common as they could be if there were more of the things flying out of Samsung Mobile Display factories. Predictably that's set to change in 2011, with SMD planning to fulfill its promise and bring another production facility online, while other competitors in Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore will ramp up their own AMOLED facilities in the coming year. Meanwhile, China is said to be working on its OLED supply chain as well, meaning those displays of the passive matrix variety will also be flying off of assembly lines soon
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: assembly, china, facility-online, lines, mobile-devices, oled, passive, pot, samsung, singapore, super amoled
Verizon happy to offer Windows Phone 7 devices ‘as soon as Microsoft has ‘em ready’
Yes, Verizon's calling them "Windows 7 mobile devices," but the underlying message is clear -- Verizon's tossing the Windows Phone 7 CDMA ball squarely into Microsoft's court. There are no CDMA-ready smartphones running Microsoft's latest mobile operating system (save the late-blooming HTC 7 Pro for Sprint) and Verizon doesn't intend to take any of the blame for that. You're up, Microsoft.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: latest-mobile, microsoft, mobile-devices, point, smartphones, sprint, verizon, windows, windows7, wp7
Microsoft becomes official ARM licensee, could an MS microprocessor be next?
ARM processors are so hot right now, especially in the mobile space, where they power many of the greatest smartphones, tablets, and mobile devices coming down the turnpike. Microsoft is apparently looking to merge in on that action, becoming an official ARM licensee
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: agreement, armarchitecture, development, general-manager, microsoft, mobile-devices, mobiledevices, phone, research, result, windows
Sharp busts out world’s first 3D HD camera for mobile devices
Oh yeah, things just got real . Sharp has announced an industry first today, with its 720p-recordin' 3D camera module.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 3d-camera, 720p, autostereoscopic, before-the-end, breaking-news, breakingnews, busts-out-world, devices, industry-first, mass-production, mobile-devices, past-the-break, penny, point, press
Motorola’s Jha: moving headquarters to Cali not a ‘driving priority’
Rumors have run rampant that the head of Motorola's soon-to-be-independent Mobile Devices division, Sanjay Jha , has plans to high-tail back to the Californian home from whence he came (where his family still resides, coincidentally) once the split wraps up. That may still be the case, but it looks like it's not necessarily happening any time soon coming off comments this week from the dude himself. In comments to shareholders on Monday, Jha said that "the mobile devices headquarters is in [Chicago suburb] Libertyville, and that will continue at the point of the split," qualifying the statement by saying that he'd "evaluate [their] needs" afterward but that doesn't "know" that relocating the business "is a driving priority right now." Moving the business clearly has personal benefits for Jha -- not to mention likely brings a refreshed Motorola access to a greater pool of high-tech talent in the Valley -- but regardless of what happens, he says that he doesn't think the company will "dramatically change [its] space in Chicago." Might not be a bad idea to fly all the engineers away from those nasty Chicago winters for a couple months, anyway, right
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: california, californian, chicago, from-the-dude, mobile, mobile-devices, moto, motorola, result, statement, valley
Dell’s Lightning, Thunder, Flash, Smoke and more: rounding up a storm of mobile leaks
You might have missed it if you were sleeping, but we broke open a huge treasure trove of leaked Dell mobile devices last night, including the high-end Lightning Windows Phone 7 slider and Thunder Android set.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: aero, dellaero, delllightning, entry, froyo, looking glass, mobile-devices, oled, smoke, spec, tegra 2, tegra2, trove, windows-phone
EPIX brings movie streaming to mobiles courtesy of Adobe’s Open Screen Project
Already offering video to your TV and computer, EPIX is ready to unveil the third part of its "Big On Any Screen" service when it demonstrates a mobile version of the channel today at MWC 2010.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: channel, entry, epix, epix hd, flash, flash player 10.1, mobile-devices, movies, near-the-top, streaming, today-at-mwc, works-as-well
Motorola targets first quarter of 2011 for split into two
Ending a healthy spat of rumor and speculation , Motorola has confirmed today that it'll be splitting into two separate entities as of the first quarter of next year. The first of the two will form from the current Mobile Devices and Home businesses -- led by Sanjay Jha effective immediately -- with control of the phone business, set-top boxes, and "end-to-end video, voice and data solutions," while the other half will congeal out of the Enterprise Mobility and Networks divisions that are responsible for wireless infrastructure, two-way radios, public safety systems, and the like, and that will be led by Greg Brown (in other words, both businesses will retain their current leaders). The deal apparently has the support of Moto's board (a good thing to have when you're a publicly-traded company), and logically, both spin-offs will be publicly-traded as well.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: enterprise, entities, infrastructure, license, mobile-devices, moto, networks, public, safety, schism, stock, understanding, wireless
Motorola files another small profit in fourth quarter
Moto appears to be continuing its long, arduous road toward recovery on news of its financial results for the fourth quarter of '09 -- or, at the very least, it's not losing any ground. Overall, the company posted a meager profit of $142 million for the quarter on revenue of $5.723 billion, $14 million better than a quarter prior and a staggering $3.799 billion better than the same quarter a year ago. Breaking it down by division, Mobile Devices is still in the red, but not by terribly much -- it did $1.8 billion in sales with an operating loss of $132 million, while Home and Networks Mobility (the guys responsible for wireless infrastructure and set-top boxes) made $91 million on sales of $2 billion.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: devices, earnings, earningsreport, engadget, entry, extent, mobile-devices, motorola, operating-loss, quarter, recovery, report, tops
Wapple powers mobile phone exchange site
Now CeX has launched its mobile site - http://m.webuy.com - which consumers can access via the mobile phone they are using or another they may wish to sell.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: analysis, cex, consulting, events, microsoft, mobile, Mobile Phone, mobile-barcodes, mobile-devices, mobile-search, re-cycling, tht, trading, wapple