China's Foxconn is hiring workers to produce a new version of the iPhone, according to Bloomberg. The news service says that Foxconn has ended a hiring freeze at its Zhengzhou plant and is bringing on new employees to make a new smartphone, probably the...
Apple is finally ending its relationship with Samsung Semiconductor, according to a report in The Korea Times. For years Apple's devices have used mobile processors made by Samsung, and some say the expertise Samsung gained while making chips for Apple helped it create the...
Just ahead of the launch of its iPhone 5, T-Mobile USA is sweetening the pot by offering a trade-in credit for customers turning in legacy iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 models. Those devices would also be presumably coming from a rival carrier as T-Mobile...
T-Mobile USA today broke a bit with tradition announcing preliminary first quarter results showing the carrier’s first branded customer growth in years, bolstered by improved postpaid churn and continued strength in its no-contract offering.
The carrier reported that it added 579,000 total customers to its...
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The smartphone sales boom may have lots of room to run worldwide, but in the developed world the explosive growth of smartphones is slowing and the makers of high-end devices are looking for new opportunities. The $60 billion dollar wristwatch market seems like a...
T-Mobile USA appears to be inching toward the launch of its LTE service, announcing this week that its Samsung Galaxy Note II device would receive an over-the-air update enabling access to LTE services.
The carrier did note that despite the OTA update, it was not...
I think it might be time for Samsung to have an intervention. This week, the consumer electronics giant unveiled its latest Galaxy smartphone, which according to my memory is the 39th iteration of that device in the past three weeks.
Samsung upped its game in the smartphone space with the unveiling of its latest Galaxy S model, the S4, which will supersede the S3 in its lineup.
The S4 includes a 5-inch Super-AMOLED screen, up to 64 gigabytes of embedded memory and 2 GB of...
The tablet market is growing even more quickly than some estimates had predicted, and the devices are being widely adopted by enterprises and driving billions in application revenue, according to several reports released this week. Low-cost smaller tablets in particular are influencing both device...
China Mobile saw net profits inch up only slightly in 2012, with financial growth stymied by increased expenses. The carrier did maintain its position as the world’s largest wireless operator, ending the year with 710 million total customers.
Operating revenues increased 6.1% year-over-year to $90.1...
Samsung may have killed two birds with one stone with its investment in Japan's Sharp Corp. For $110 million, the Korean conglomerate gets a stake in a TV screen manufacturer and a relationship with one of Apple's key suppliers.
Apple's dependence on Sharp made...
Apple and Samsung continue to solidify their dominance of the smartphone market, according to the latest MobiLens report from comScore. The iPhone 5 helped Apple boost its market share to 37.8% of U.S. smartphone subscribers for the 3 months ending in January, up from...
With less than three months to go until graduation, many college students are hard at work fine tuning their resumes and scheduling job interviews. And companies from across the mobile ecosystem are busy recruiting.
"We hire a lot of people right out of college,"...
The most stunning smartphones at Mobile World Congress were not even announced at the show; both Sony and HTC unveiled their new flagship phones before the week began in Barcelona, Spain. Once the show got underway, their handsets were joined by the latest from...
Despite domestic wireless penetration at or near 100%, Verizon Wireless is confident it can continue adding new customers whether from rivals or multi-device accounts.
Speaking at an investor conference this week, Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo noted the company did not think the “net-add” game...
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Apple makes a statement each year by NOT attending Mobile World Congress, but its presence is felt in the product announcements made by its competitors. Samsung is of course Apple's top competitor in the device space, and although the Korean giant sells more smartphones...
Huawei knows its newest LTE smartphone is one of many new products coming this week at the Mobile World event, but the Chinese giant seems confident that nothing coming up will be faster than the Ascend P2. The company says the phone can download...
Earnings news, product announcements and the latest from FirstNet. RCR Wireless brings you up to date on the week's news.
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Now this week we hear that Apple is in fact looking to expand into a market outside its perceived wheelhouse, but instead of cameras, it’s looking at the
It is official: The iPhone trademark in Brazil belongs to Gradiente. The company was granted the trademark registration to use the term in 2008 when referring to cellular telephone apparatus, cellular telephone devices that enable Internet access for both fixed and mobile telephony, digital...
T-Mobile USA’s comeback from its 2011 abyss continues as the carrier’s plan to reinvigorate the industry’s competitive landscape is in full flight. Those efforts have also spilled over to its enterprise offerings, where the carrier is looking to build on the foundation laid in...
Reports that Apple (AAPL) is preparing to launch a Bluetooth wrist watch picked up steam over the weekend, as sources in Cupertino and Taiwan both spoke to the U.S. press about work on wearable smart devices. The Apple smart watch rumor surfaced in December...
