Category: mobile

Apple iPhone to Arrive to T-Mobile and Sprint

There are endless rumors about the upcoming iPhone 5, but the current ones focus mainly on the carriers. According to Chris Larsen, Piper Jaffray’s analyst, T-Mobile and Sprint, as well as AT&T and Verizon, will offer the next-gen iPhone 5. In late spring, another expert said that the “iPhone 4GS” would arrive to T-Mobile and [...]

Microsoft sees smartphone prices cut in half by 2012

The costs of smartphones running the mobile operating system of the company can be minimized by as much as half over the next year thanks to the new devices in the market.   This was declared by Windows Phone Division president Andy Lees to the 15,000 participants of the Worldwide Partner Conference of Microsoft in [...]

Nokia spending $127M marketing Windows Phone

Finnish phone manufacturer Nokia is set to go on a $128-million marketing campaign that will help sell Window Phones from Nokia. The campaign, which will coincide with the release of the first device of Nokia for the Microsoft OS touted to be the Sea Ray, will rebrand Nokia from being known as a Symbian and [...]

Almost One Third of iPhone Users Think That Their Smartphones Have 4G Service

With Verizon launching their super fast next-generation LTE 4G network, one would think that iPhone users should be able to use this system. And one third of iPhone owners actually believe that. According to a recent study, 34 percent of iPhone users wrongfully believe that the latest model, the iPhone 4, and older Apple smartphones [...]

iPhone 4 Prototype Being Sold on Ebay

You probably remember the iPhone 4 prototype which leaked when Apple Software Engineer Gray Powell left it at a Calformian bar. It seems that the iPhone prototype leaked again. A prototype of the iPhone 4 surfaced on eBay, and the bidding reached thousands of dollars. Before several bidders took the bidding up to an impossible [...]

Samsung Galaxy S II sells over 3 million units in 55 days

Samsung has sold 3 million units of the Galaxy S II smartphone in just 55 days, with more sales expected in the next few months with the launch of the device in 120 countries involving 140 mobile operators. The Samsung Galaxy S II already got three million preorders last month, 200,000 of which were made [...]

Samsung seeks ban on Apple products

The patent war between Korea’s Samsung Electronics and US giant Apple has expanded after the US International Trade Commission was asked by Samsung to ban the import into the United States of Apple products. A Samsung spokesman said it has urged the ITC to stop the shipping into the US market of popular Apple products [...]

Happy Birthday, iPhone!

Time surely passes by quickly. It seems that it was just yesterday when the first iPhone with iOS, previously called iPhone OS, was launched on June 29, 2007. The world’s once largest touch screen smartphone was available for an exorbitant price of $500 and accounted for sales of just 273,000 units over the opening weekend. [...]

iPhone 4S to be Launched in September with no iPhone 5 in the Picture ?

With the iPhone 4 launched a year ago, all thoughts are about the upcoming iPhone 4. According to Deutsche Bank analyst Chris Whitmore, Apple is going to release two iPhones this September – a cheaper one, the iPhone 4S, and the immediate successor to the iPhone 4, the iPhone 5. The analyst says that Apple [...]

iPhone Dominates Fast-Growing European Smartphone Market with Approximately 40%

A study revealed that Apple’s iPhone dominates the fast-growing European smartphone market with a market share approximately estimated at 40 percent. Compared with the iPhone, Android commands just 19 percent of the market, BlackBerry is in third place with 17 percent and Europe-based Nokia settled for the fourth spot with a 15 percent market share. [...]