For a couple of weeks now I have had a Samsung Galaxy Camera device on my desk eyeballing me with its over-sized lens, a gift from Samsung in order to conduct a product review. Now, traditionally I have
A decision about whether Apple can continue to use the iPhone name in Brazil will be released this week. On February 5, the Brazilian Institute for Industrial Property (INPI) will announce its decision on the matter in the Industrial Property Magazine, which serves as...
Sometimes it’s not even worth getting out of bed in the morning. Unless someone has made breakfast for you, and that breakfast includes bacon, but that’s another story.
IDC's fourth quarter mobile phone tracker shows the top five vendors with almost two thirds of the market. Samsung has consolidated its lead with a 29% market share, up from 22.5% in the year-ago quarter. Apple's share has slipped from 23% to 21.8%. ...
AT&T went on a spectrum buying spree and investors went on an Apple selling spree. Verizon Wireless and AT&T both reported healthy gains in postpaid subscribers and both said that more than half of those subscribers are now using smartphones. RCR wraps up the...
It was a record-breaking year for smartphones. Device makers shipped more than 700 million units worldwide in 2012, the largest number to date, according to a recent report from Strategy Analytics.
The top seller, Samsung, led the field with its own record-breaking numbers. Boosted by...
Record sales of iPhones and iPads were not enough to renew Wall Street's appetite for Apple. The stock fell 10% in after hours trading following the company's fiscal first quarter earnings report. Many investors are worried that future revenue gains will increasingly come from...
The one thing that I’ll say about this industry is it never fails to surprise. 2013 will be no exception. Overall, we’ll see much more emphasis on mobile operators trying to take back the subscriber
Verizon Communications (VZ) reported lower-than-expected earnings as a record number of new wireless customers led to higher subsidies paid to smartphone makers like Apple (AAPL). Verizon said it sold 6.2 million iPhones during the fourth quarter, but fewer than half of those (3.1 million)...
Reports that Apple has cut orders for iPhone 5 and iPad components have investors on edge as they wait for the Cupertino company's fourth quarter earnings release, due late Wednesday. While lower orders for components could indeed signal a slowdown, most of the reports...
Price pressures ensure the survival of the feature phone: Although the feature-phone category will continue to play second fiddle to the smartphone in 2013, price pressures will secure
The number of LTE devices and manufacturers is exploding. This special report explores how the transition to LTE networks is changing the device ecosystem from design to test and repair, and the factors that affect a successful LTE device launch. Spectrum fragmentation, the proliferation...
Samsung says its flagship Galaxy S III smartphone has been selling at rate of 200,000 a day, pushing sales of the company's Galaxy line of smartphones past the 100 million mark. The Korean conglomerate says it has sold more than 40 million Galaxy S...
Mobile devices will become the biggest users of “big data” and business intelligence/analytics by 2015/16 as users increasingly look for information to help them be more productive.
Apple shares are lower today on concerns that demand for the iPhone 5 may be slackening. Japan's Nikkei news service and The Wall Street Journal both report that Apple has made sharp cuts in its orders for iPhone 5 parts, prompting speculation that orders...
Wireless operators continue to fine tune their no-contract service offerings in an attempt to capture a market segment that continues to be up for grabs, with MetroPCS the latest to alter its rate plans in an attempt to lure those looking for mobile without...
Apple’s iconic iPhone continues to trickle down the carrier scale as Walmart announced that its Straight Talk Wireless offering will offer a pair of iPhone models sans-contract.
The retail giant said it will begin offering the iPhone 5 and iPhone 4 beginning Jan. 11,...
40 billion apps, 7 billion dollars and a quarter of a million different apps for iOS -- those are the numbers Apple is touting this week. The company says that users have downloaded 40 billion iOS apps to date, with almost half of those...
Gazing into our crystal ball – or crystal-ball app, rather – we’re taking a peek into what the state of mobile tech will look like a year from now. What will IT departments be focused on – or will they exist at all?
The world's largest trade show gets underway next week in Las Vegas, and odds are that wireless technology will permeate everything from cars to cameras on the show floor. In addition, we'll see new innovation in traditional mobile devices:
Hybrids Tablets that sport a detachable...
For the telecoms industry, 2013 will be a continuation of the “interesting times” that we have seen in 2012. The past year has seen slowing economic growth as a result of the continuing debt crisis in the developed world.
Wait … 2012 is over? What the what the?!? I was just beginning to get comfortable writing “2012” on all my checks and documents, my plans for the end of the world were just coming together and I was still
Editor’s Note: With 2012 nearly over, RCR Wireless News takes a look back at the top 100 stories from the past 12 months. The stories are in chronological order beginning with Jan. 1. The first part of the list ran yesterday, with today’s listing...
