Speaking at MobileBeat in San Francisco this week, Samsung’s Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) Omar Khan implied that smartphonese were passé, noting this year was the year of the superphone.
With worldwide market-share for smartphones constantly growing, it may seem to some that dependable old feature phones are being neglected, but a change in terminology could soon see feature phones getting smarter – on paper anyway.
“PCs will soon seem very archaic,” said Trevett, whose firm currently relies on the PC market to make a living. “Mobile computing is the future. Mobile is the web, the web is mobile, the two are really integral,” he continued.
Motorola is betting on Android, RIM says its “ridiculous growth” proves people like Blackberry just fine as it is, and Yahoo is unsure whether or not tablets are mobile devices, according to a panel this morning at MobileBeat 2010 in San Francisco
Flashing his 750 million dollar smile on stage at MobileBeat 2010, Admob’s Omar Hamoui coyly discussed how it had felt to be courted by both Google and Apple, the potential implications of an Apple block on the firm’s mobile ads and what contingencies were in place to cope with that eventualit
Speaking at the MobileBeat2010 conference in San Francisco on Monday, AT&T’s Chief Technology Officer John Donovan discussed convergence, the “consumerization of enterprise,” and the surge in mobile broadband, all while artfully managing to avoid the meat of the main issues faced by the carrier.
Speaking at the MobileBeat2010 conference in San Francisco on Monday, AT&T’s Chief Technology Officer John Donovan discussed convergence, the “consumerization of enterprise,” and the surge in mobile broadband, all while artfully managing to avoid the meat of the main issues faced by the carrier.
RIM is showing off yet another sneak peek of its BlackBerry 6 operating system today, releasing a YouTube video monday filled with tons of tweetery and far too much Facebook for a traditionally enterprise phone
A 99 year old lady with glaucoma has just bought her first ever computing device – the iPad- and is telling the world how it has changed her life and become the apple of her eye.
Popping up again like a recurring rash is the rumor that Intel is about to acquire German chip maker Infineon’s mobile chip business, a move which would significantly help the firm in its ARM wrestle for significance in the mobile/wireless space.
. Smartphones aren’t just changing the way we live, they’re changing the way we shop too. New data from Forrester says almost a third of consumers are using their phones …
With all this talk of mobile internet being the best-thing-since-sliced-web, Ericsson has decided to throw its two cents into the ring with the proclamation that the internet had reached yet another milestone this week with the five billionth mobile subscription helped largely by emerging markets India and China.
Microsoft recently announced it would be killing off its Kin devices, and Emblaze declared a while back that its ELSE Intuition smartphone would never see the light of day, but what other innovative devices have been killed off before being given much of a chance?
If you were to imagine the type of person you believed was driving the adoption of the mobile web, that person would probably be a young, white yuppie yapping away on his iPhone. The only problem with that image is that new statistics say poorer African-Americans and Hispanics are actually driving the adoption of the mobile web in a much more significant way.
Nowadays, with smartphones becoming the “must-have” devices for anyone under the age of 40 in the developed world, the distinction between enterprise phone and consumer phone is blurring and so are the distinctions between which operating systems are business focused and which are more for personal use.
A very sweet husband coats an iPad in chocolate to disguise it for his wife’s birthday
Android phones may be taking the world by storm, but a shortage in AMOLED displays could prove a stumbling block and hinder Google’s efforts to run away with the smartphone cup.
Motorola is trying to ‘charm’ its way into consumer hearts with its new Blackberry look-alike Android device. The much rumored Motorola Charm has now been confirmed and legitimized by the firm itself, and will be sold exclusively through T-Mobile in the US this summer.
Despite joking a while back that it would not pull an Apple and set loose the bloodthirsty legal beagles over the leak of its N8 phone to a Russian website, Nokia seems to have changed its mind, and is indeed legally pursuing Eldar Murtazin, the blogger who laid the phone bare for all to gawp at.
In an attempt to shed some flab, Finnish phone maker Nokia is selling off its wireless modem business unit to Japan’s Renesas Electronic for $200 million.
It would seem that the word “Android” pops up everywhere nowadays. It’s the in word when it comes to anything mobile related, a true challenger to the iPhone throne as king of the smartphone heap, so it is perhaps a little surprising that its creator, Google, seems to have been unwittingly holding it back from even greater glory.
In today’s world of mass consumption, operators find themselves struggling with the massive increment of data usage.
The month of September sees Korea celebrating Chuseok – a harvest festival where locals go back to their hometowns and celebrate by indulging in a feast of traditional Korean food.
Apple is well known for its “hear no evil, see no evil” attitude when it comes to its own products, but the Cupertino company came as close as it probably ever will to admitting a problem when it kicked a hacker out of its App Store this weekend.
HTC is seeing its strategic alliance with Google pay off, quite literally, with the firm reporting an incredible second quarter in which its revenue jumped up 58% and profits soared 33% year on year.
