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
SK Telecom’s Android action figures as flexible as the OS itself (video)
Here you go: Androski, the skiing Android mascot. He certainly gets more exercise than you (at least he meets more snow bunnies), and he'll look great on your desk.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: action figures, break, bunnies, korea, republic, result, sk telecom, south korea ship, southkoreaship, sun, telecom, toys, video
Dell dropping Windows Phone 7 devices from its roadmap? (update: Dell responds, is definitely still in the game)
Now we don't have much more to go on here than some analyst chatter and a lengthy article from TechCrunch , but if you believe what you read, a major player has just dropped Windows Phone 7 devices from its roadmap. And that player is Dell . According to Jonathan Goldberg, an telecom analyst at Deutsche Bank, the only remaining partners currently working on Windows Phone 7 handsets are HTC, Samsung, and LG.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: collaboration, congress, deutsche, entry, makers, result, samsung, telecom, windows mobile 7, wp7
Motorola XT806 Android flip phone strikes a pose on Chinese website
You'd think Motorola would be done for the summer after pushing out the much anticipated Droid 2 , but no -- apparently it has yet more Android handsets to deliver before it could head to the beach.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: after-pushing, cdma, chinatelecom, deliver-before, flip, newbie, radio, selling-point, telecom
AT&T’s bullish earnings report suggests iPhone exclusivity is almost over
You can tell a product ranks high in the public consciousness when something like this is news: AT&T's quarterly earnings report makes it sound like the telecom may finally lose its iPhone exclusivity deal. While a class-action lawsuit recently confirmed the handset was originally locked to AT&T / Cingular for a full five years , the company's Q2 SEC filing has the company making a considerable number of familiar excuses why AT&T's cellular business will thrive even "as these exclusivity arrangements end." While the iPhone isn't mentioned by name, it's hard to imagine sentences like "We believe offering a wide variety of handsets reduces dependence on any single handset" could refer to anything else -- but before you start defecting to Team Red, know there's nothing in there that suggests a date, much less proof of the fabled CDMA iPhone. AT&T's bullish earnings report suggests iPhone exclusivity is almost over originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 08 Aug 2010 11:24:00 EST
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: att, earnings, exclusivity, industry, iphone, iphoneexclusivity, product-ranks, public, q22010, quarterlyearnings, telecom
China Telecom launches BlackBerry… the BlackBerry Storm, that is
When a carrier announces that it's adding BlackBerry devices and BES support to its lineup, very rarely does that mean a touchscreen BlackBerry -- but hey, crazier things have happened.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: berry-storm, BlackBerry, chinatelecom, half, mobile, storm, telecom
Telecom Egypt loses revenue, government helps by banning international VoIP
State-owned Telecom Egypt hasn't been doing well lately, last week announcing 2009 voice call revenues dropped 13 percent from the year prior. It's not hard to see cheap/free VoIP calling as a primary reason, and so what do you do if you're a state-run commercial enterprise trying to make a profit? Why, you make the competition illegal of course
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: announcing-2009, ban, carriers, egypttelecom, enterprise, entry, from-the-year, not-regulatory, result, telecom, vodafone
China Telecom launching Palm Pre, BlackBerry handsets this summer
We've been hearing that China Telecom would be grabbing hold of Palm and RIM's respective stables of smartphones since early last year, but at long last we've some official quotes to prove those whispers correct.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: chairman, chief, china, china-unicom, chinese, handsets, palm, palmpre, pixi, pricing-details, rim, smartphone, summer, telecom
Orange and T-Mobile UK merger approved by EU, forms 29.5 million customer juggernaut
The European Commission has decided it doesn't mind the crass splicing of pink (okay, magenta ) and orange, and has therefore provided its tastefully hued green light to the UK merger of the two mobile operators. Once the transaction is completed this Spring, we'll still be looking at two delineated entities on the consumer market, but there'll be one back office and one consolidated network servicing the two brands. That'll remain the case for at least the next 18 months, when the joint venture between Deutsche Telecom and France Telecom, the respective parent companies of T-Mobile and Orange, will likely complete the process by rebranding itself into one entity
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: consumer, france-telecom, francetelecom, Generation, merger, mobile, network operators, orange, result, spring, telecom, the-transaction
SK Telecom shoves Android onto a SIM, we check it out
SK Telecom was showing off some interesting ideas about where it'd like to see SIM cards go in the future here at MWC this week, including a couple particularly juicy ones called Android SIM and the SIM Theme Package.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: apps, cards, check-it-out, elements, engadget, handsets, shoehorns, sk telecom, sktelecom, storage, take-advantage, telecom, time