HTC’s Peter Chou says LTE handsets are coming next year, and the world keeps on spinning
Stop us if you've heard this one before, but a very popular handset maker will be introducing smartphones that incorporate the latest wireless technology at some point in the upcoming year.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: adopters, factors, handset-maker, holographic, htc, interview, lte, money, operator, peter, peter-chou, pushing-the-lte, seeing-the-rest, working-on-lte
Windows Phone 7 developers not getting paid for Marketplace sales until February 2011
Not a good time to be a starving dev, we'd say, because Microsoft is saying in its Windows Phone 7 developer community forums that payouts for Marketplace apps won't start for another couple months.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apps, developers, left-uncrossed, left-undotted, microsoft, money, windows, windows-phone, windowsmarketplace, wp7
One million Chinese cellphone users reportedly infected with zombie virus
Viruses have been making the rounds on cellphones for quite a while now , but it looks like China has now been hit by a particularly troublesome one.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: Anti, anti-virus-app, cellphone, cellphones, cellphonevirus, charges, country, daily, message-charges, money, virus, virus-disguised, zombie, zombievirus
Nokia’s Savander: ‘the Symbian Foundation will exist as an open source movement and we will use it’
The veracity of The Register 's information regarding the Symbian Foundation's future remains to be seen -- but for what it's worth, Nokia's outspoken vice president of markets, Niklas Savander, seems to have some pretty strong language about the platform's future in a recent interview with CNET Asia . Here's the money quote in response to a question about whether Espoo will pull the Foundation's operations back in-house after having spun them off as an open-source operation in 2008: "I don't see any reason for that
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: benefit, entry, interesting, money, nokia, platform, president, result, roadmap, stephen-elop, symbian, tidbit
Google’s Eric Schmidt says Android is profitable, could eventually be a $10 billion business
It may not exactly be a huge surprise given the recent market share numbers , but Google CEO Eric Schmidt has recently confirmed that Android is, in fact, profitable for the company.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: advertising, ceo, cover-the-cost, engadget, entry, eric, eric-schmidt, ericschmidt, money, perspective, revenue, rubin, schmidt, source
Nokia C3 Touch and Type hands-on
Nokia continued the precedent set by the X3-02 at Nokia World last week by rolling out the C3 Touch and Type, its second Series 40 -based handset to make use of that pretty unusual touchscreen / numeric keypad combo. Unlike the X3-02, the the new C3 variant features a more traditional keypad layout by dropping the *0# row down below the 789 row, but since T9 only makes use of the first three rows to do its thing, it shouldn't make much of a different in practice for typing usability
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: below-the-789, budget, c3 touch and type, c3touchandtype, entry, keypad, layout, money, nokia world, nokiaworld2010, precedent, resistive-touch, series 40, touch
HTC Desire hits US Cellular today for $200
Right on time , US Cellular's CDMA-flavored version of the HTC Desire is now available for a nickel under $200, making it the undisputed big dog in the regional carrier's lineup (its first Android device, the Samsung Acclaim, launched a few weeks back). What you get for your hard-earned money here is a surprisingly accurate recreation of the GSM Desire the rest of the world has been enjoying for much of this year, with the same optical pad, 3.7-inch display, 5 megapixel cam, Sense, 1GHz Snapdragon core, and identical industrial design (which, considering how good the original looks, is just fine with us)
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: engadget, money, press, regional, right-on-time, samsung, the-undisputed, uscellular, verizon
Android developer anecdotally claims AdMob brings home the bacon
In February 2009, Arron La's $0.99 Advanced Task Manager was one of the first paid apps on Android , allowing T-Mobile G1 users to do what was then a novel thing -- close applications. (We immediately bought a copy.) Today, the app is all but obsolete, its functionality baked right into Android's core, but Arron's still making thousands of dollars a month.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: advanced task manager, advanced-task, arron, arron la, bacon, clouds, dollars, gentleman, home-the-bacon, money, revenue, revenues, shannon, stormy
Apple starts refunding Bumper purchases automagically
Automatic refunds, or so the email says. We've been on the receiving end of a deluge of tips this morning pointing out that Apple has begun funneling cash back into its users' pockets -- a most unusual event, to be sure -- to live up to its retroactive promise of free Bumpers for all (who buy their iPhone 4 before September 30). If the particular wording is to be trusted, that should mean that even those who haven't yet bothered to put in a claim, but did purchase a Bumper, will find themselves enriched in due course.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: antenna, antennaissue, apple refund, applerefund, bumper, entry, iphone, iphone 4, money, pockets, pride, refund, reputation, result
How-to: figure out the best value iPhone 4 contracts in the UK
Choices, choices. Do you get the 16GB or 32GB iPhone 4?
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, discerning, engadget, fogginess, iphone 4, made-it-easy, money, o2 uk, orange uk, over-the-coming, price, price plans