Samsung
Jul 29, 2011 phones
The 103 million smartphones shipped in Q2 represent a YoY growth of 62% and a QoQ growth of 2.2%. While the annual growth rates and 2H 11 outlooks appear healthy for the industry, Q2 did experience some ‘softness’ in the market, driven by macro-economic conditions, seasonality and a sharper than expected decline in Nokia’s smartphone business.
The perennial leader in smartphone shipments tumbled to 3rd place this quarter with 16.7 million devices shipped. Nokia’s smartphone market share
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Tags: growth research million smartphone shipments shipped smartphones samsung quarter business apple businesswire kbusinesswire pressrelease technology wireless, nok, nokia corp ads, verizon communications, vz
Sprint Nextel and LightSquared Announce Joint Services Agreement
Jul 28, 2011 bluetooth, cellular, phones, wimax, wireless
LightSquared™, the nation’s first wholesale-only integrated 4G-LTE wireless broadband and satellite network, and Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) announced today they have entered into a 15-year agreement that includes spectrum hosting and network services, 4G wholesale, and 3G roaming.
This spectrum hosting arrangement leverages Sprint’s investment in its innovative, multi-year Network Vision plan. Under the agreement, LightSquared will pay Sprint to deploy and operate a nationwide LTE network that hosts L-Band spectrum licensed to or available to LightSquared.
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Tags: bluetooth, cellular, dailywireless, mobile technology news and information, satellite phones, ultrawideband, wimax, wireless
Cellphones Don’t Dial Up Kids’ Cancer Risk
Jul 28, 2011 phones
“In a case-control study, children and adolescents who were regular users of the devices were no more likely to have been diagnosed with a brain tumour than those who never picked one up, Martin Roosli, PhD, of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel, Switzerland, and colleagues reported.”
Tags: brain cancer news, cancer, cellphones, dial, health news, medical news, risk, up
AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Slide Images Leaked
Jul 27, 2011 android, hardware, phones, samsung
Yesterday we saw a picture of unannounced Samsung Slider device heading to AT&T. Folks from AndroidCommunity predict the device will be known as the Samsung Variant II. Now, those folks prediction has become true. They got several leaked images that similar as the previous leak.
The picture above is the Samsung Galaxy S II Slider with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and of course, it’s heading to AT&T. Aside from the QWERTY keyboard, it
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Tags: android, hardware, keyboards, peripherals, ricardo bilton, samsung, the toybox
One Billion Payment Cards with Contactless Capabilities Expected to Ship in 2016
Jul 27, 2011 phones, united states
An estimated one one thousand million payment cards with contactless capabilities will be shipped globally in 2016, up from just 170 million in 2010. This includes EMV dual interface cards and the non-EMV pure contactless push in the US.
Smart card shipments, which include not only contactless payment card game, but also EMV and non-EMV payment cards, will reach one billion during 2011. ABI Research forecasts that smart card shipments will overtake mag-stripe card shipments by 2015.
“There
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Tags: cards smart research payment stripe market contactless businesswire kbusinesswire pressrelease technology wireless, china, united states
Vonage Extends VoIP Calling to Mobile Phones
Vonage Holdings Corp. (NYSE: VG) is breaking beyond the four walls of the home by allowing customers to extend their Vonage home calling plans to any phone, including mobiles. The relocation allows customers to manipulation Vonage’s signature unlimited(1) international calling plans from their mobile phones to call friends and family abroad. The new service offering — Extensions™ — is free to all Vonage customers and builds upon Vonage’s history of providing unsurpassed value to customers for
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Tags: business phone service, home phone service, ip phone, mobile, phone service, voip, voip phone service, vonage
Unauthorized Phone Charges Costing Americans More Than $2 Billion a Year
Jul 26, 2011 phones
In a hearing on July 13th, 2011, Xigo CEO Dave Spofford joined Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, Vermont Assistant Attorney General Elliot Burg and Walter McCormick of the U.S. Telecom Association to testify in front of the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation about the $2 billion worth of unauthorized charges appearing on phone bills each year.
Chairman John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV is leading an investigation into cramming – a deceptive practice that
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Tags: americans, charges, costing, mobile technology news and information, more, phone, than, unauthorized
Sprint Prepares for 4Q Launch of Sprint Direct Connect
Jul 26, 2011 forum, phones, vbulletin
Sprint announced the initial phones it plans to deploy in the fourth quarter when the company launches its next-multiplication, push-to-talk service powered by Sprint’s broadband CDMA network. The new service – Sprint® Direct Connect – will deliver higher bandwidth capacity to keep up with customers’ data demands and is expected to extend the company’s push-to-talk reporting to almost triple the square miles of the company’s current push-to-talking offering.
The Sprint Direct Connect phones to be introduced this
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Tags: a500, forum, handset, sprint newsroom media room, sprint newsroom newsroom, sprint newsroom press releases, sprint newsroom press room, vbulletin
AT&T Getting Samsung Flagship Keyboard Phone
AT&T is acquiring a Samsung Slider handset. The gimmick supposedly be available sometimes near future. There’s possible action the device can be known as the Samsung Galaxy S II Variant aka the Epic 4G.
According to BGR, the Samsung Slider handset will be a flagship device, which means it would features a cutting edge specs. There’s not much information regarding the device. But we will keep an eye on it.
[via AndroidCommunity]
Tags: cutting edge, flagship, hardware keyboard, judgements, samsung, samsung slider phone
HTC Ruby Pictures Leaked Via Reflection On A Tablet
HTC Ruby picture has been leaked. The unique thing about this picture is that the device was spotted in reflection on a HTC Flyer tablet screen. That is why the picture is so dark and unusually strange.
According to Pocketnow, the devices on the picture above ar HTC Ruby. The same codename was suspected to be one of HTC device that comes in Spring but it turns out to be HTC Arrive. The
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Tags: htc, htc flyer, htc ruby, mobile phones, tablet
