The handset market in the United States in the first quarter grew 12% over the year-ago quarter, with the sale of about 39 million units valued at nearly $3 billion, according to The NPD Group. That growth is roughly similar to the year-ago quarter's...
Carriers measure upA former Yahoo employee has created a new Web site, www.MeasuredUp.com, that is designed to provide a forum for cellular phone subscribers to rate their experience with their carrier. Users can log on to the Web site and share their experience in...
Editor's Note: In this monthly feature, RCR Wireless News talks to retail managers across the country to get a first-hand view of what's hot in wireless.By Kelly HillLeap Wireless International Inc.'s Cricket store in Greenwood Village, Colo., is the first of the carrier's outlets...
Motorola Inc. is shifting its marketing strategy away from its mobile devices such as the Razr or Pebl to one more squarely focused on the consumer.Casey Keller, in one of his first interviews since being named chief marketing officer last October, said Motorola believes...
The word last week that Nokia Corp.'s new N75 device would debut soon at AT&T Mobility drew its share of attention, for good reason. Though Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Nokia's CEO, has made a point to extol the value of the U.S. market-declaring it a hotbed...
Alltel Corp. added "The Wafer"-a new, thin, bar-style handset from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.-to its portfolio. The handset is $50 with a mail-in rebate and two-year contract, and is available to existing Alltel customers whose rate plan allows them to upgrade their handset.The Wafer...
Hello! And welcome to our Thursday 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 RCR Wireless News to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the...
Nokia Corp. announced seven new phones for markets outside the United States at an event in New Delhi, India, news that coincided with the firm's annual shareholders' meeting in Helsinki, Finland. The company may have selected New Delhi as its platform due to the...
Research In Motion Ltd. is following up its pursuit of the consumer market with a device dubbed the "Curve," which will sell exclusively at AT&T Mobility "later this spring," according to the carrier. No pricing or more precise release date is available.Vagueness, however, did...
Alltel Wireless added "The Wafer"-a new, thin, bar-style handset from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.-to its portfolio. The handset is $50 with a mail-in rebate and two-year contract, and is available to existing Alltel customers whose rate plan allows them to upgrade their handset.The Wafer...
Nokia Corp.'s clamshell-style N75 device, announced last September, has finally arrived at AT&T Mobility's online store for $200 with a two-year contract-at least it was briefly last week, before the carrier removed the offer, due to the product not arriving in its distribution center....
As carriers tempt customers to move into data services beyond text messaging, some of them are designing service or accessory packages that specifically appeal to how different types of customers will make use of their phones. Sprint Nextel Corp. recently introduced a new...
Editor's note: This column by Keith Crain, chairman of Crain Communications Inc., which owns RCR Wireless News, first appeared in Automotive News, a Crain publication that covers the automotive industry.A couple of weeks ago, I was in Orlando, Fla., for the annual CTIA Wireless...
On Friday, fans wandering around the sidelines of the Texas Motor Speedway in Dallas will be the first to experience the mobile arm of GSD&M's "Do Something Amazing" campaign for the United States Air Force. The Air Force said it has hit all its...
Conventional wisdom has it that since early January, every handset vendor and carrier has scrambled for an answer to the you-know-who phone, due in June. Regardless of the handicapping already taking place-who wins, who loses?-Apple Inc.'s iPhone has contributed to a shift in the...
ORLANDO, Fla.-The intriguing thing about the mobile handset business is that competition and ambition can help a vendor thread the eye of a needle. To some, that's the slim opening for vendors not counted among the top-tier, whose five companies claim more than 80...
ORLANDO, Fla.-Sprint Nextel Corp. shook up its mobile music service to be more competitive, and announced an expansion of its joint venture with its cable partners.The music offering includes the new Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. SPH-m620 phone, dubbed Upstage, that offers a slim form...
BlueAnt Wireless said it is launching four new products at CTIA Wireless 2007. The Australian-based firm is introducing an entry-level T8 micro Bluetooth headset and the advanced V12 LCD headset with called I.D., according to the company. "CTIA will provide the platform upon which...
The procession of handset announcements coinciding with next week's CTIA Wireless 2007 conference is underway, and Motorola Inc. just threw a new phone at T-Mobile USA Inc.The handset is known officially as the Moto Rizr z3, and features a sliding-style form factor.The Rizr z3...
Nokia Corp. sold more than half the 71 million smartphones purchased last year and Motorola Inc. followed, with less than 9 percent of the market, according to a new study by ABI Research. Nokia racked up sales of 40 million smartphones out of the...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our Monday feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. In the coming weeks look for columns from Compete's Miro Kazakoff, Jupiter Research's Julie...
AT&T Inc. is retooling the look and feel of its wireless retail stores to reflect a multi-faceted product offering, and introduced its first super-sized, flashy AT&T Experience Store in Houston.The company called the 5,000-square-foot store "the first to demonstrate the benefits of housing AT&T's...
AT&T Inc. is retooling the look and feel of its wireless retail stores to reflect a multi-faceted product offering, and introduced its first super-sized, flashy AT&T Experience Store in Houston.The company called the 5,000-square-foot store "the first to demonstrate the benefits of housing AT&T's...
Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.What got the RCR Wireless News editorial staff talking this week? Simple: the 4 billion requests to meet at the CTIA Wireless 2007 show at the end...
