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.We have yet to learn of the bottom-line successes of the iPhone 4 or Droid X launch...
CUPERTINO, Calif. — Anyone that had their money on Apple Inc. (AAPL) announcing an unprecedented recall of its latest iPhone today walked away empty handed. While the odds were heavily against a recall of any sort, the constant pressure and negative press Apple has...
LOS ANGELES — “If you want your story to travel and become part of what people are doing, and you want those people to become fans,” augmented reality should fall right into your wheelhouse, Brian Hurst said yesterday to kick off a panel on...
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 first wave of handsets that U.S. carriers used to shield themselves from Apple Inc.'s...
How often do you hear your friends tell about their can't-fail app idea? All too often, once someone first gets their hands on a smart phone running on one of the more modern and flashy operating systems like Google Inc.'a Android operating system, Apple...
While nearly six in every 10 American adults are accessing the Internet via wireless technology, only 38% of all adults surveyed are accessing mobile data on a cell phone, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.Unfortunately,...
SHANGHAI, China — The incredible success of Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM) is inextricably linked to the success of CDMA technology. The company has been pushing the technology ever since it refined it for use on cellular networks and it continues to reap treasure from a...
SHANGHAI, China – Sprint Nextel Corp. has been transitioning and remaking itself for at least two years now. During that time, much more has changed in the mobile industry than stayed the same. Many of the situations that the carrier faces today are not...
After a one-year hiatus when the show visited Los Angeles, the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment event is back in the city by the Bay for 2007. The move is minor considering the wireless trade association's larger spring show has been bouncing between the...
One well-worn mantra has it that long-awaited growth in data-driven revenue depends on smart phone uptake, a notion that keeps this market segment under the microscope. Thus, when NPD Group detected more than 4-percent growth in smart-phone sales in the United States between January...
When two women in distinctive but identical designer dresses are seated side-by-side in a trendy restaurant, there may be mutual if mortified acknowledgement of the other's good taste, rapidly followed by a seating shuffle. In contrast, when Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s BlackJack smart phone...
LOS ANGELES-Research In Motion Ltd. is suing Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and the Korean handset vendor's American subsidiary over the use of the name "BlackJack" for the latter's new smart phone currently available through Cingular Wireless L.L.C., alleging that it is a trademark infringement...
A lot of ink is expended on the competitive machinations of the top five global handset vendors-for good reason. This year, together, they will account for perhaps 80 percent of the nearly 1 billion handset shipments around the world. Big research-and-development budgets that support...
Consumers' tendency to carry duplicate devices-think camera phone and digital camera, or smart phone and PDA-may contain a seed of wireless' future. That may seem like a bit of a stretch on such a simple premise. Take the implications, however, and work backwards. Enjoy...
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-Refresh Mobile took top honors as "Developer of the Year" in the 2006 Forum Nokia Pro Awards.Other winners included Telcogames' The Silhouette Game, an addictively simple puzzle offeringWinners received a free one-year membership to the developer community, valued at $5,000, as well...
ATLANTA-Palm Inc.'s new Treo 680-combining enterprise applications with multimedia to expand Palm's traditional market-will launch via Cingular Wireless L.L.C. on Friday at $200, the two companies announced today. The device is compatible with Cingular's GSM/GPRS/EDGE network. The holiday-season launch is a boon to Palm,...
U.S. network operators are losing their grip on subscribers who stroll off their decks to buy ringtones, access adult content or simply surf the wireless Web. When it comes to knowing where users are, though, carriers still hold the cards.Call it the Starbucks scenario:...
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...
ATLANTA—Cingular Wireless L.L.C. added an HSDPA-enabled smart phone known as the 8525 Pocket PC to its line-up, which it is selling for $250 with a mail-in rebate and two-year contract. The 8525 is the first HSDPA-enabled smart phone in Cingular’s portfolio. The 8525 appears...
Pssst ... if you're looking for that elusive quarry-mobile handset consumers-you'll find them in abundance online. They're not only researching purchases in cyberspace, but increasingly making them over the Internet as well. Carriers take note: your brick-and-mortar stores may serve that now-rare bird, the...
SHENZHEN, China—Comtech Group Inc. announced it will license next-generation software technology, including technology for smart phones, from Microsoft Corp.’s IP Ventures program. Comtech provides custom design solutions for China’s technology manufacturing sector. The company said its partnership with Microsoft bolsters its ability to provide...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Smart phone users, a small but growing segment of the mobile public, are now dealing with what may become a standard part of the wireless experience: software upgrades. For instance, owners of Palm Inc.’s Treo 650 were just notified that updater 1.05a is...
By Julie Jargon CHICAGO—Motorola Inc. cell phone chief Ron Garriques promised investors in May that the company's new Q smart phone would follow the same trajectory as its smash hit Razr cell phone, selling 750,000 units in the first 90 days and 5 million...
The math is simple: mobile devices are requiring more power at a rate greater than improvements in current battery output and longevity can provide it. There's nothing earth-shattering about the essential proposition, of course-mention the topic of battery life in handsets and colleagues eagerly...
