Earlier this week the United States Patent & Trademark office awarded a patent to Apple. That's not unusual, as the company, like its competitors, is issued patents on a fairly regular basis. What makes this patent special, however, is that it covers the use of the now ubiquitous "slide to unlock" feature seen on most smartphone platforms. Apple applied ...
Yesterday Motorola Mobility announced its financial and business performance results for Q3 of 2011. In the report, the company stated that it had revenues of $3.3 billion, which is up 11 percent from Q3 in 2010. The revenue came mostly from the sale of its mobile devices, of which it shipped 11.6 million units. 4.8 million of those devices shipped ...
Samsung has appealed for the Australian ban on its Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets to be overturned. Citing errors of law, Samsung's legal team has insisted that the ban over alleged patent infringement is wrongful, despite a judge agreeing that Apple's intellectual property had been infringed.
Motorola shipped 4.8 million smartphones worldwide in Q3, according to the company's latest financial results, but tablet sales were just 100,000. Motorola Mobility is still waiting for its purchase by Google to be rubber stamped, and its results in the meantime are a bit of a mixed bag. Smartphone sales were up by 9.1 per cent, taking mobile ...
As our columnist Gary Marshall EXPLAINS, Nokia's unveiling of its FANCY new Windows Phones wasn't quite what we EXPECTED. "Faced with a familiar problem - everybody knowing exactly what they were going to unveil - Nokia decided it was time to shake things up a bit," he REPORTS. "First, [CEO] Stephen Elop kept pronouncing the company's name in a funny ...
Nokia recently made a new beta version of the Series 40 browser available to those wishing to test it. The new version of the application has a redesigned user interface for easier navigation; social networking tools for sharing content such as photos and videos; and other tweaks that Nokia says will make mobile web sites look better. Nokia Series 40 Browser ...
We’re please to inform that we just update the HTC Supernew Records Database with 2.500.000 IMEI (Mostly HTC Leo, Surround, HD7, Sensation, Wildfire, Desire, Desire HD, Desire S, HD2, Incredible S).
With users rushing to denounce BlackBerry and announce they'll leave the platform, RIM really needs to pull a belter out of the bag to put the horrors of 2011 behind it. Which is where the BlackBerry Curve 9360 comes in. The range has long been one of BlackBerry's most popular - affordable, but not cheap; sleek, but not too flash. And the bestselling ...
LG's funky DoublePlay smartphone, the one with two touchscreens and a split-QWERTY keyboard, is now available for purchase from T-Mobile. The DoublePlay runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and its two screens measure 3.5 and 2.0 inches across the diagonal. It also has a 5 megapixel camera with 720p video capture. The LG DoublePlay can be yours for $99.99, ...
In what seems to be a recurring story for LG, the company reported losses from its mobile division in its Q3 2011 financial reports. This marks the sixth consecutive quarter that LG has lost money from its phone division.
During the main keynote speech at Nokia World today, Nokia president and CEO Stephen Elop revealed that the company intends to bring LTE and CDMA equipped Windows Phone handsets to "applicable markets" in 2012. Though he didn't specifically say the U.S. market was one of those to get the LTE and CDMA phones, it pairs nicely with the promise that Nokia ...
Nokia is pushing out a software update to its N8 smartphone that addresses a number of bugs in the Symbian Anna platform that runs on the phone. Unfortunately, the update does not upgrade the N8 to Symbian Belle with its myriad of new features. Things that are improved with the update include quicker email and messaging, faster GPS locks, and fixes ...