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
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 catches FCC on a good day
Oh, to live the life of an FCC certification lab employee: setting up test benches, writing reports, playing with devices that won't be released for months or years. Instead, we're stuck enjoying their fun vicariously at an arm's length through a little portal we know as the FCC Office of Engineering and Technology, where gems like the X10 occasionally pop up complete with pretty in-the-wild pictures, teardowns, and user manuals.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other, nintendo Tags: engadget, ericsson, iphone, mobile, nintendo, podcasts, rachael, report, return-false, sonyericsson, x10, xperia, xperia-x10, xperiax10
Ford to give Sync some App Store flavor, opening API to devs in 2010
Ford has already shown it can tie the controls of Sync-enabled vehicles to the music and contacts databases of drivers phones and PMPs and though it may take time before our emotions can be detected , the next step is extending that connectivity to downloadable apps on those devices. Since Sync first debuted, the explosion of the App Store concept has meant nearly every smartphone owner is packing plenty of ways to access and use information from the internet, but without an easy way to interact with it while driving.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: aol, apple, BlackBerry, development, engadget, iphone, mobile, report, return-false, Sync
RIM’s optical trackpads: they weren’t joking about the ‘optical’ part
Thinking about how your phone's touchscreen operates, you might assume that the so-called optical pads that have been making appearances on recent BlackBerrys ( among other devices ) operate in a similar fashion -- but you'd be wrong. RIM's official BlackBerry blog is chiming in today to drop some knowledge on us dullards, and it turns out that "optical" isn't just a cute nickname -- the pads do actually operate in much the same way as modern desktop mice, using a low-res infrared camera to capture movement across the surface and translate it into movement. In practical terms, what this means is that you don't need a conductive surface to operate the pad -- you can use pretty much anything that the sensor can see, so a gloved hand (for instance) is theoretically good to go
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: 18th-2009, black, BlackBerry, chris-ziegler, droid, engadget, mobile, neutral, optical, opticaltrackpad, report, return-false, rim, trackpad
iPhone nabs 46 percent of Japanese smartphone market, the tiny Japanese smartphone market
So you read a headline like "iPhone grabs 46 percent of the Japanese smartphone market" and the first thing you're likely to think is, "wow, Apple is really doing well for itself." Well, it is and it isn't. While it has made some considerable gains in the smartphone market at the expense of phones like Sharp's W-ZERO3 and the Willcom 03 , it still hasn't gained nearly the same total mindshare or market share that it has over here. That's because "smartphones" as we know them are still a relatively small market in Japan, where carriers' lineups consist of a whole range of offerings including everything from mobile TV-equipped phones to true camera phones to perfume holders
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other, htc Tags: apple, appleiphone, BlackBerry, cellphonesales, engadget, iphone 3g, iphone3gs, japan, japanese, neutral, report, return-false, steve-jobs
Tiki’Labs virtual keyboard for iPhone takes shot at Swype, one-handed typing wars commence
One-handed touchscreen typing is the hip new thing, apparently, since mere weeks after getting our first whiff of Swype , Tiki'Labs has debuted its own free TikiNotes app for the iPhone with a proprietary "large target" sort of keyboard. We've seen the idea before, specifically with some accessibility devices, which lets the user drill down into one of six alphabet sectors, and then pick one of six characters. TikiNotes improves upon that by not only predicting the word you're currently typing, but also often correctly guessing the next word you were planning on typing.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other, htc Tags: accessibility, app, htc, iphoneapp, keyboard, mobile, neutral, onehandedkeyboard, onehandedtyping, podcasts, report, tikinotes
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, Other, htc Tags: accessories, admob, article, carmen-delessio, chuck-falzone, droid, general-news, growth, opinion, podcast, raphael-savina, rapidly, report