BARCELONA, Spain—Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s new 10.1 -inch Galaxy Tablet 2 has a nice user interface and is an improvement from its first version, reports RCR Unplugged Editor Sylvie Barak from the show floor during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, last month.
The tablet,...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.In my last column, “Navigating consolidation in the network equipment industry,” I discussed consolidation in the global...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared in RCR Wireless News' January Special Edition: "Unwrapping the Opportunities, the next generation of smart devices. To see all of the articles from that issue, click here.Every year we sit back and marvel at the advances made...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly 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.The tablet market is exploding, ignited by Apple Inc.'s iPad launch last April. By the...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly 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.What a week for revolutions: Egypt has changed from a dictatorship to democracy in just...
BARCELONA, Spain — The availability of enterprise-class features, tools and security is a pervasive concern for virtually ever IT decision maker. While the major smart phone operating systems are adding some of these to their arsenal, there are many others that are being left...
BARCELONA, Spain – HTC Corp. used the global stage here at Mobile World Congress to announce three updated versions of existing smart phones, two new devices targeting the social media savvy and its first tablet.The HTC Flyer, which marks the company's first foray into...
BARCELONA, Spain – Step aside Apple Inc.(AAPL), Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. claims to have the world’s thinnest smart phone on the way.As the weekend came to a close, Samsung held a standing-room only event where it announced the Galaxy S II and Galaxy Tab...
Nokia Corp. has done the unexpected. Never mind, the news already leaked. The world's largest handset manufacturer has taken its search for a modern smart phone operating system outside its ranks and inked a wide-ranging deal with Microsoft Corp. to make Windows Phone the...
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....
There is little about the mobile space that should shock or surprise anyone anymore. Just think for a minute about all that you can do with that five-ounce device that you tote around wherever you go and it’s hard to think of surviving without...
The nascent near field communication space received a much needed jolt today as Japanese telecom giant NTT DoCoMo Inc. (DCM) announced an agreement with Korean operator KT Corp. (KT) to use the wireless technology to develop “cross-border services for mobile payments, mass-transit ticketing, promotional...
NEW YORK – Sprint Nextel Corp. and Kyocera Communications Inc. announced the Echo, a dual-screen smart phone running Google Inc.'s Android 2.2 operating system. The mobile phone is comprised of two 3.5-inch WVGA touchscreen displays connected by a pivoting hinge. Both screens can operate...
MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS) continued its pioneering work in the LTE space announcing today the imminent availability of Samsung Telecommunications America's LTE-equipped Galaxy Indulge smart phone. The device is the first LTE-enabled smart phone to hit the domestic market, just beating out scheduled deployments...
The nascent near field communication space received a much needed jolt today as Japanese telecom giant NTT DoCoMo Inc. (DCM) announced an agreement with Korean operator KT Corp. (KT) to use the wireless technology to develop “cross-border services for mobile payments, mass-transit ticketing, promotional...
NEW YORK – Sprint Nextel Corp. and Kyocera Communications Inc. announced the Echo, a dual-screen smart phone running Google Inc.'s Android 2.2 operating system. The mobile phone is comprised of two 3.5-inch WVGA touchscreen displays connected by a pivoting hinge. Both screens can operate...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.With 18 LTE networks now in commercial service around the world, LTE handsets will surely be unveiled...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.If we learned anything from the events of the past week, it’s that brand loyalty matters little...
February is shaping up to be a hot month in the mobile device space. This time it's T-Mobile USA Inc. with plans to release the Galaxy S 4G from Samsung Telecommunications America later this month.The exclusive Android-powered device for the carrier features a 4-inch...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. In my last column, “Wave of consolidation washing over wireless,” I summarized the key drivers of...
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....
Two firms that aren't cheering the Verizon Wireless iPhone are Nokia Corp. (NOK) and Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI), who both saw shipments and average selling prices of their own smart phone devices drop in the fourth quarter.Nokia said it had managed to shift...
Seven Networks introduced a wireless traffic optimization tool that it says can cut down data consumption on the network by up to 70% as it reduces the number of times the device and handset talk to each other, in a way that still allows...
Apple Inc. (AAPL) has now served more than 10 billion app downloads. Since launching the App Store in June 2008, Apple's presence in the mobile space has grown considerably.The company surpassed 3 billion downloads just a year ago. Near the close of 2010, Apple...