Posts Tagged ‘Handset’

January 26, 2012 Off

Nokia reports big loss despite strong Windows Phone sales

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Nokia posted its third consecutive quarter of hefty losses, despite strong sales of its new Windows Phone portfolio.

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January 26, 2012 Off

Nokia releases Q4 2011 earnings report: operating profits drop, Lumia sales break one million

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Nokia released its latest quarterly earnings report today, following up on a somewhat disappointing Q3 with a similarly bleak Q4. The Finnish manufacturer finished 2011 with a little more than €10 billion ($13.1 billion) in net sales — 11 perce…

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January 25, 2012 Off

Nokia Series 40: over 1.5 billion served

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Nokia has announced a major mobile milestone: over 1.5 billion (with a b) Series 40 handsets sold since the first device — the 7110 — was introduced in 1999. “We are incredibly proud to reach this milestone,” wrote Nokia’s Executive VP of Mobile Phon…

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January 24, 2012 Off

Orange offers free Wikipedia access to mobile users in Africa and the Middle East

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There are more than 70 million Orange customers across Africa and the Middle East, but only about 10 million are able to access the web from their handsets. That gap may be narrowing, though, now that the provider has decided to offer free mobile acce…

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January 24, 2012 Off

Verizon releases Q4 results, sees jump in revenue, broadband subscribers, net loss

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Verizon has just come out with its Q4 results this morning, ending the fiscal year with yet another solid revenue report, and a decidedly less rosy net loss. According to the provider, total revenue reached $18.3 billion during the final quarter of 20…

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January 23, 2012 Off

HTC Velocity runs impressive speed test on Australia’s new 4G network

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How fast is Telstra’s new 4G network? Pretty darned fast, according to a recent speed test that Ausdroid ran on an HTC Velocity — Australia’s first 4G handset. As the above image clearly demonstrates, the device impressively managed to reach downloa…

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January 20, 2012 Off

Verizon reportedly trials VoLTE services in two cities, eyes nationwide rollout next year

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Verizon’s Voice over LTE (VoLTE) platform has been in the works for a while now, and according to industry insiders, it’s about ready to hit the big time. Catharine Trebnick, an analyst at Northland Capital Markets, told Light Reading Mobile this wee…

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January 20, 2012 Off

Camera-less iPhone 4S now available in Singapore, military approves

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Rhyming schemes aside, it’s hard to imagine why anyone would want a camera-less iPhone 4S. But that’s exactly what Singaporean operator M1 is offering today, with the launch of a new line of “non-camera” iPhones. As it turns out, Singapore’s military…

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January 18, 2012 Off

Samsung’s Bada – Tizen merger still looking pretty likely

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Last week, rumors began circulating around Samsung’s Bada OS, with Forbes reporting that the platform would soon be merged with Intel’s Tizen project. If finalized, the move would reportedly allow Bada apps to run on Tizen, though it remains unclear …

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January 12, 2012 Off

Leaked screenshots reveal new details on Nokia N9 MeeGo update

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New details on the forthcoming MeeGo update for Nokia N9 users have just emerged this morning, courtesy of a batch of leaked screenshots and firmware information. Originally posted by a user on talk.maemo.org, the shots point to many upcoming func…

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January 10, 2012 Off

Samsung eyes Nokia’s cellphone throne, seems pretty confident about it

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Nokia has enjoyed a healthy 14-year reign as the world’s top cellphone manufacturer, but Samsung thinks that run will come to an end this year. Speaking to reporters at CES last night, Samsung CEO Choi Gee-Sung said his company overtook Espoo in r…

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January 9, 2012 Off

Stephen Elop: Nokia Windows Phone coming to AT&T, will support LTE

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Stephen Elop has just taken the stage at AT&T’s Developer Summit here at CES, taking the opportunity to confirm that an LTE-enabled Nokia Windows Phone will indeed be heading to the carrier. The exec didn’t offer too many details beyond that, bu…

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January 9, 2012 Off

Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket HD coming to AT&T: 1.5GHz dual-core CPU, LTE, ‘razor-thin’

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AT&T has just added a new handset to its stable of devices today, introducing the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket HD at its Developer Summit keynote, here at CES. Powered by a 1.5GHz dual-core CPU, this “razor-thin” handset boasts a spacious 4.65-…

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December 26, 2011 Off

FCC approves mysterious Archos DECT device, may or may not be secret death ray

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It’s amazing, it’s mysterious and it’s hard to say exactly what it does. On Friday, the FCC passed a device described as “a handset of internet tablet with DECT,” suggesting that the mystery gadget may be some sort of bizarre marriage between a DECT…

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December 19, 2011 Off

Find My Car Smart app uses Bluetooth 4.0 to help iPhone 4S owners do the obvious

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Do you have an iPhone 4S? Do you drive a car? Do you have amnesia? If you answered yes to at least two-and-a-half of these questions, you’ll probably be interested in Find My Car Smart — a Kickstarter project that wants to help dudes find their c…

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