BlackBerry Bold R020 and 9670 Oxford flip outed?
It's felt almost as if the BlackBerry smartphone rumor mill has been a little too quiet -- dare we say burnt out -- since the Torch hit the scene ( BlackPad notwithstanding, of course). That's all changed with a pair of interesting leaks care of Boy Genius Report . Behold a successor to the Bold 9700 , the R020
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: BlackBerry, bold 9700, bold r020, boldr020, external, flip, genius, keyboard, leaks, magnitude, oxford, report, the-purported, torch, usual-amenities
Yes, the iPhone 4 is broken / No, the iPhone 4 is not broken
The controversy over the iPhone 4's antenna issues continues to grow, particularly after Consumer Reports confirmed yesterday that every iPhone 4 suffers from signal attenuation when the phone is held with the lower left corner covered -- a report that we confirmed with results from our own custom signal metering app. At this point, there's no longer any question in our minds that the iPhone 4's antenna can be made to lose signal by holding it "wrong" -- and we definitely think it's more than a little silly that simply holding the phone in your left hand has been nicknamed the "death grip." That said, however, it's not at all clear what the real-world effects of the antenna issue actually are for most people -- as we've repeatedly said, several iPhone 4s owned by the Engadget staff (including our review unit) have never experienced so much as a single dropped call, while others suffer from signal issues that results in lost calls and unresponsive data in a dramatic way. What's more, at this point Apple's sold well over two million iPhone 4s , and we simply haven't heard the sort of outcry from users that we'd normally hear if a product this high-profile and this popular had a showstopping defect.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: antenna, antenna-issue, controversy, engadget, industry, iphone, iphone4, outcry, peers, report, users, using-the-phone, well-as-reached, world, york
Apple #1 US phone manufacturer, RIM enters top 5 worldwide, Motorola feels the burn
Apple, love it or lump it, has seen some big numbers lately: one million App Store apps downloaded, ten billion iTunes, and now it looks like the company can claim to be the number one phone maker in the US. According to Forbes , Apple sold 8.8 million iPhones in the first quarter, as opposed to 8.5 million mobile devices sold by Motorola -- quite a slide when you figure that four years ago the company moved something like 46.1 million in Q1.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: devices, feels-the-burn, itunes, manufacturer, motorola, numbers, quarter, rankings, report, time
WSJ: Apple ‘developing new iPhone,’ plus another for Verizon (update: iPhone HD?)
You heard right, folks -- according to the Wall Street Journal, Apple is currently "developing a new iPhone to debut this summer," and as if that weren't enough, it's also "working on another model for US mobile phone operator Verizon Wireless." As of this moment, details about the break are nowhere to be found, but it's not like either tidbit is shocking. This summer will mark the one-year anniversary of the iPhone 3GS , and if the Cupertino-based company keeps with its historical refresh pattern , we're just a few months out from seeing the latest and greatest iPhone. There's also been no shortage of iPhone-to-Verizon rumors over the years, with the latest of 'em happening during the run-up to the iPad's launch
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other, htc Tags: apple, cdma iphone, cupertino-based, hon hai, iphones, matter, news, operator, report, verizon-iphone, wallstreetjournal
Select SF-area iPhones insist they’re in Boulder, Colorado
The iPhone's iteration of Google Maps has been shown up time and time again by Google Maps Navigation on Android, but a quirk this big just has to be linked to some Skyhook database issue. According to a new report coming from NorCal, select iPhone users in southern San Francisco are seeing their GPS software linked to Boulder, Colorado, and the issue has been going on for around a week now. What's curious is that the erroneous positioning affects other third-party iPhone GPS apps as well, and an ABC report notes that a "spokesperson at AT&T said the problem is with Apple." Pass the blame much, AT&T
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apps, california, database, erroneous, gps, iphone3gs, iphonegps, iteration, maps, problem, quirk, report, software-linked, wireless
Palm posts $22m Q3 loss, says it liked its chances against Droid had Verizon launch been sooner
Palm gave us a heads-up back in late February that its upcoming earnings report wouldn't exactly be cause for celebration, and today the news has become official: the outfit recorded a net loss of $22 million during its fiscal Q3, which still looks rosy compared to the $98 million loss it suffered this quarter a year ago.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: business, Carrier, decline, fortnight, future, industry, launches, quarter, quarterly earnings, report, result, rubinstein, smartphones, webos
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
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
More Ghanaians browse the Internet using mobile phones : Ghana …
smart-phone Many more Ghanaians now browse the Internet using their mobile phones , leading to an improvement in Ghana's ranking on Opera's 'State of the Mobile Web' report released Tuesday December 22, 2009. ...
Categories: Mobile Phone, htc Tags: africa, african, entertainment, ghana, internet, investment, ivory-coast, mobile, Mobile Phone, politics, print-this-story, report, tiger-woods, yahoo
T-Mobile bringing HTC HD2 to the States? All .nbh files point to ‘yes’
You know those times when you're sifting through an undercooked ROM, dumping .nbh files right and left, asking yourself: "is this even worth it?" Well, the folks at WMExperts can answer with a resounding fist pump after digging up references to T-Mobile US in an HTC HD2 prerelease ROM that was recently leaked their way. At this point we're looking at a new 2.01 version of the HD2 software in the T-Mobile version, a big jump from the 1.61 seen in previous leaks, which maybe will smooth over some of those performance woes we experienced with the device. WMExperts also claims a March 2010 release date, which seems a while to wait, but somebody told us once about "good things" coming to "waiters" or something like that, so we're cautiously optimistic.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other, htc Tags: 18th-2009, aol, BlackBerry, climate-change, engadget, htc, htc-hd2, leak, mobile, report, return-false, rumor