Last week, Samsung caused quite a ripple in the blogosphere when it announced that it would not be upgrading the original Galaxy S smartphone or the 7-inch Galaxy Tab to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich because of hardware constraints. Now reports are coming in from Korea stating that Samsung is reevaluating its position, and that it is going back to the drawing ...
Samsung hopes the DoubleTime will coax the QMD faithful to make the leap to Android smartphones. But is that a smart decision?
Apple has won a legal case which, in theory, bans the sale of some HTC Android phones in the United States from April 2012. According to the International Trade Commission's findings, the Taiwanese smartphone titan has infringed upon an Apple patent. The patent in question, US594667, relates to how the phone deals with an email or phone number. ...
LG has taken the wrapper off of its latest remote control, which is set to bring voice control to the company's Cinema 3D TV range. LG is not stranger to creating innovative, and also slightly wacky, controllers for its television range. In 2010 it launched its first-generation wand-like Magic Remote, which added Wii style motion control to help ...
Nokia today said that it plans to shut down the Nokia Contacts web site on January 24, 2012. Nokia Contacts allowed users fo Symbian smartphones to sync their contact data with Nokia's servers for safe keeping. Nokia says that the change won't affect the contacts stored on user devices, but Nokia recommends that users who want to back their contacts ...
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop responded to reports suggesting Nokia might leave Finland and denied that the company intends to leave its home country. Speaking during a TV interview, Elop said. "As long as I am the CEO the headquarters is in Espoo. That's our home, our sense of belonging."
The U.S. International Trade Commission has decided to review a decision made by a judge in October that cleared Apple of violating four of HTC's smartphone patents. The ITC is going to revisit one of the four patents, which pertains to "technology for looking up and quickly dialing phone numbers and different techniques for managing power consumption ...
Cricket Communications today announced the addition of the Huawei Mercury to its roster of Android smartphones. The Mercury in driven by a 1.4GHz processor and includes a 4-inch FWVGA touch display; 8-megapixel camera with autofocus, LED flash, and HD video capture; a VGA user-facing camera; and Wi-Fi, Stereo Bluetooth, and mobile hotpot for up to five ...
Once of Verizon Wireless's official twitter accounts as acknowledged an issue affecting the Galaxy Nexus's signal performance and call quality. "The signal strength issue is currently being investigated. We don't have an ETA, but a software update is being developed," said the company. Phone Scoop gave the Galaxy Nexus poor marks for voice quality and signal ...
The U.S. International Trade Commission today ruled that HTC has violated a 1999 Apple smartphone patent pertaining to how computers talk to one another The ITC ordered that HTC be banned from importing some of its products, though the ban will not commence until April 19. HTC will be allowed to import refurbished products to meet repair claims, but no new products ...
Samsung today announced that it will provide a select number of its Galaxy-branded smartphones and tablets with the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. Samsung said the Galaxy S II and Galaxy Note will receive Android 4.0 during the first quarter of 2012. Other devices expected to be upgraded include the Galaxy S II LTE, Note, R, Tab 10.1, ...
HTC called Monday's ruling by the U.S. International Trade Commission a "victory," despite the fact that the ITC found HTC guilty of violating a smartphone patent held by Apple. HTC claims a victory because the company was faulted on only one of ten Apple patents in question. With regard to the impending ban on some of its phones, the company said in statement ...