Smartphone

Editor’s Note: Welcome to a special CTIA I.T. Show Daily edition of our weekly online feature, Analyst Angle. Every Monday at www.RCRNews.com you can find columns from the industry’s leading …

If you own the platform, you control the message.That’s not some esoteric, technological mumbo-jumbo-though you’ll hear plenty of that this week-but one take on Symbian Ltd.’s position as sponsor of …

Data is a damnable thing. It is what it is, but the devil’s in the interpretation.The same could be said for the Apple Inc. iPhone, hailed as a disruptive force …

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The first glimmer of quantifiable iPhone impacts is in, courtesy of NPD Group.The news is not-so-good for Palm Inc. and carriers T-Mobile USA Inc. and Alltel Corp. Research In Motion …

Motorola Inc. apparently kickstarted its ongoing efforts to broaden its smartphone offerings and bring Internet-based services to them by buying 50% of UIQ Technology last week from rival Sony Ericsson …

Wireless carriers are heading into the all-important holiday selling season, flashing new handsets designed to dazzle consumers and riding sales trends which have been building over the past year.The Apple …

NOKIA CORP. RODE A CONTINUING WAVE of worldwide consumer demand for handsets in the third quarter, posting impressive gains in revenue and profit and volume.The other top-tier, incumbent handset makers …

Welcome to our Friday feature, Week in Review. Every Friday, RCR Wireless News runs through the major events of the past week, outlining what happened and speculating on what to …

Verizon Wireless has added the ability to update software on new phones on-the-fly, a new offering that may stand as a key competitive advantage. The carrier is working with InnoPath …

Nokia Corp. will answer the iPhone’s splashy user interface with advancements in its own Series 60 UI that runs its smartphone offerings, the Finnish giant said at the Symbian Smartphone …

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier –Morgan Stanley cut its EPS estimate on Sprint Nextel to …

The term “win-win” rightly makes sober people sick, but it might be applied to AT&T Mobility’s news that it will carry HTC Americas’ Tilt device, beginning Friday, at $300 with …

Palm Inc. is down, but not out. The smartphone maker has struggled to develop a new operating system, bring relevant devices to market and seen its market share plunge-and just …

TODAY BEGINS THE FOURTH QUARTER-the crazy, blow-out-the-pipes holiday season for most retailers, including those in the wireless industry. Financial numbers for the past three months are due soon.The numbers, of …

Here’s one of those pop quizzes you dread:Quickly, what do PepsiCo, Kraft Foods, Nike Inc., Heinz, Procter & Gamble, Nintendo, Pizza Hut, Mars Inc. and Sara Lee Corp. have to …

Welcome to our Friday feature, Week in Review. Every Friday, RCR Wireless News runs through the major events of the past week, outlining what happened and speculating on what to …

If you’re wondering what shape WiMAX-enabled devices will take, you can hop a plane to South Korea and see Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s two models in action on SK Telecom’s …

Nokia Corp., two handset rivals and semiconductor companies active in the memory space are pursuing an open standard dubbed universal flash storage that could smooth the uptake path for a …

Todd Achilles, the face of HTC Americas in the United States and throughout the Americas, resigned about a month ago, Achilles confirmed today. The smartphone vendor is actively pursuing candidates …

Nokia Corp. announced with little fanfare the impending launch of its E51 smartphone at BT, an operator in the United Kingdom and rival to O2 UK. But the Finnish company’s …

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. Search for “wireless phones” …

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 …

It’s getting a little embarrassing. See, Apple is essentially trouncing the wireless industry with a long and growing list of new, user-friendly innovations. These innovations stretch from the hardware side …

Hewlett-Packard Co. unleashed a wave of products yesterday, including two HSDPA-capable, iPAQ-branded smartphones running Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Mobile 6 Professional operating system.The offerings are notable as HP used to sell …