Wireless

The downward trend for Nokia Corp. (NOK) continues. Few companies can sustain a nearly one-third drop in profit for long, but Nokia did just that in the recently closed second quarter, reporting a 31% drop in profit from last year.

If you’re a social geek like me, then Flipboard is the iPad app you’ve been waiting for, aggregating Facebook, Twitter and other feeds into a very appealing magazine-like style.

BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM) has been on a slow and steady march toward the consumer market for the better part of two years, and although much of its success of late has come from growth on that front its most current operating system and user interface look hardly consumer driven.

Microsoft employees, look under your chairs… yes, that’s right, you will all be going home with a brand new Windows Phone 7 device, yes, all 90,000 of you!

It certainly has been a chipper week for cellphone companies and component makers, with Qualcomm the latest firm to announce some rather stellar fiscal third-quarter earnings, thanks largely to the whopping success of Android smartphones based on the firm’s chips.

Some devices are so popular, so high flying, you need to literally look to the skies just to get your hands on, as is the case with Motorola’s much hyped Droid X, which sold out at Verizon on the first day it was offered.
RCR Unplugged was surprised, therefore, when we received the following offer from Continental airlines this week, offering us a Droid X. “Earn Miles and get a new DROID X by Motorola,” read the subject line.

Why installing iOS4 on an iPhone 3G renders the device painful to use.

Antennagate be damned, Apple has done it again, with the firm managing to pull its best ever quarterly revenue results out of its sleek, shiny hat on Tuesday.

Tired of having the same phone as all the other Russian billionaires’ wives? Well look no further, comrades, because RCR has got you covered. Here are the five phones most likely to make an impression at your next caviar buffet.

The economy may be tanking, but app developers aren’t suffering much, with a new report today claiming a whopping 25 billion mobile applications will have been downloaded by 2015, a figure that has skyrocketed from a paltry 2.6 billion applications downloaded in 2009.

If you consider yourself to be more of a rugged, rough and tumble Android user, who doesn’t mince his words and prefers to push-to-talk, you may just grunt with joy at Sprint’s new military grade Motorola i1 offering.

Nine months ago, Korea’s KT telecom made the iPhone available to Apple hungry customers and has dominated the Korean Apple pie since, being the only telco exclusively offering the product, giving the firm a huge business advantage and marketing edge, much like AT&T’s in the US. But is KT’s monopoly on Apple crumbling?

While the oil disaster in the gulf of Mexico is certainly no game, app developers are finding innovative ways to raise awareness of the issue, and even raise money for the environment at the same time

Android has made significant gains in the US when it comes to mobile advertising, but remains the OS with the lowest Response Rate (CTR) in Europe according to the latest Smaato Metrics.

Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T Corp., is the top paid executive in the telecom space among U.S.-based public companies. Stephenson is followed by Qualcomm Inc. CEO and Chairman Dr. Paul Jacobs. During the next month, RCR Wireless News will feature top paid executives each Monday.

It’s been a long time in coming, but finally Microsoft has seen fit to bestow a “technical preview” of its Windows Phone 7 operating system to the unwashed developer masses.

Not wanting to miss out on the hype, Nokia has decided to beam us over its thoughts on Apple’s antenna issues, admitting that while the way you grip your phone may affect signal strength, Nokia puts its phones through vigorous testing which should allow you to hold your phone however you want… but does it?