Handsets

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.Retail store manager Mark Jones …

Alltel named best in show at CTIA 2007Alltel Wireless won an E-Tech award for best in show at CTIA Wireless 2007 for its Celltop application. Celltop allows Alltel customers to …

As it approaches its one-year anniversary, Disney Mobile L.L.C. has ambitious plans to develop new applications and move toward the use of EV-DO in delivering services. The company recently provided …

As Disney Mobile L.L.C. approaches its one-year anniversary, the company provided a glimpse of how customers are making use of the innovative, family-centric applications at the heart of its service. …

Qualcomm Inc. suddenly finds itself contemplating an escape hatch similar to one undoubtedly in the forefront of Scooter Libby’s thoughts these days: a presidential trump.The potential domino effect of consequences …

ORLANDO, Fla.-The mantra of profitability remains the guiding principle at Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P., even as it invests in development efforts in the United States and moves ahead in …

ORLANDO, Fla.-If smartphones aren’t the proverbial “overnight success” that results from years of toil, they’ve acquired added cachet in the industry because the players are focused on growth. Operators seek …

M:Metrics launched a meter-based software program that operates in the background of handsets as it compile wireless subscribers usage and behavior data to its clients. MeterDirect has been live as …

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 …

ORLANDO, Fla.-What would a CTIA Wireless event be without lots of carrier news. Sure, the big operators typically garner the limelight, but smaller players were also in the house and …

Editor’s Note: Lowell McAdam took over as president and CEO of Verizon Wireless in December, as Denny Strigl moved on to head Verizon Communications Inc.

The wireless Web is strewn with potholes and speed bumps, but John SanGiovanni hopes that widgets can pave the way.SanGiovanni is the founder of ZenZui, a spinoff of Microsoft Corp. …

CellStar Corp. received its shareholders’ approval to complete the sale of its U.S. and Latin American businesses-the distribution of handsets and accessories-to a subsidiary of Brightpoint Inc., a deal that …

ORLANDO, Fla.-The mantra of profitability remains the guiding principle at Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, even as it invests in development efforts in the United States and moves ahead in emerging …

ORLANDO, Fla.-The competitive cauldron that is the domestic Chinese handset market has produced a few winners. And that has fueled a desire among those winners to enter the U.S. market.The …

With mobile markets in India and China generating growth in numbers that few can get their mind around-but offering revenue and market share that many are fighting to get their …

So you sell a jillion handsets into the next global hotspot. What’s next? The true believers at the 3GSM conference last month, for instance, said that rapid penetration of under-served, …

North American game developers are looking to Adobe Systems Inc. to help Lite-n the load.Flash Lite-essentially a stripped-down, mobile version of the company’s ubiquitous Flash Player for computers-has gained substantial …

Location-based services, like so many emerging technologies in the wireless space, for years have been on the cusp of widespread use among mobile-phone users. With more global positioning system-enabled handsets …

Snell & Wilcox said it plans this week to introduce thee products designed to enhance mobile TV services quality and reduce bandwidth requirements.The company specializes in image processing, conversion, switching …

The mobile gaming world is targeting mass-market users with “one-thumb” casual offerings that are simple to understand and easy to play. But one Orlando developer is hoping to find an …

In case you’ve been hiding under a rock, music phones are hot. But simple usability, clear directions and “out of the box” pleasures have varied across the industry, according to …

FlipswapFlipswap, an outsourced cell phone trade-in solution for retailers, said it has signed integration partnerships with retail management system providers iQmetrix, Work Wireless, TeleTracker and CellSell.Flipswap’s Web-based software allows retailers …

As the April 9 deadline draws near for renewing an existing cross-licensing agreement between Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc., the Finnish handset maker has filed complaints in two European courts …

Teens and young adults dominate the console gaming space, but mobile publishers are hoping their parents can help take wireless gaming into the mainstream.Gameloft this week plan to announce a …