Samsung today announced the Rugby Smart for AT&T. Like previous Rugby phones, this model is rugged, including being waterproof for up to 30 minutes under three feet of water. While previous Rugby models were feature phones, the Rugby Smart runs Android 2.3 and sports a 3.7-inch Super AMOLED display. Other features include HSPA+ data, 5-megapixel camera, front camera, and memory card slot. A 1650 mAh battery provides up to eight hours of talk time. The Rugby Smart goes on sale with AT&T on March 4 for $100 with two-year contract and data ...
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Samsung Outs Quad-Core Exynos Processors
Samsung today announced a new version of its Exynos processor with four application cores. The new chips use a 32nm processes that leads to an approximate 26% improvement in computing power while also delivering a 50% improvement in battery life. The processors can be clocked up to 1.5GHz. More details will be provided by Samsung in the coming days. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Nokia expected to reveal inexpensive Lumia 610 smartphone at MWC next week
Reuters is reporting that Nokia plans to announce the Lumia 610 next week in Barcelona. The Lumia 610 is reportedly a cheaper version of its Windows Phone-based Lumia smartphones that will be targeted at a wider market. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Nokia Pureview 808 set for MWC reveal
Nokia’s MWC 2012 antics have been cranked up another notch after it released a teaser video for the forthcoming show.The video depicts a pure white landscape, with the ending slogan of “Get ready to capture a pure view” at the end, with 27 February being listed as a date to keep in your diary.Given that’s when Nokia is holding its press conference on that day and we’ve heard many-a-mention of a mystery handset called the Nokia Pureview 808, it’s not much of a leap to ...
LG Optimus 4X HD unveiled before MWC
LG has unveiled the a new quad-core Android handset called the Optimus 4X HD ahead of MWC 2012.The announcement of the new handset comes barely a day after the company announced the Optimus 3D Max handset which comes loaded with NFC tech and a 4.3-inch glasses-free 3D display.A considerably larger phone, the Optimus 4X HD has a jumbo 4.7-inch True HD IPS LCD (1280 x 720) screen up front. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Samsung Galaxy S2 hits 20m sales
We might be all aflutter at the prospect of the Samsung Galaxy S3 but there’s life in the Galaxy S2 yet as Samsung announces that it has sold 20 million of the handsets.Having been on the market since April 2011, that’s a very impressive 2 million devices exchanged for cash every month.Want to hear that fact again in a slightly different way? The Galaxy S2 hit 10 million sales in September 2011, which means Samsung has shifted 10 million more in the five intervening months, equating to 2 million a month again. You can’t fault the working.To put it into Samsung-based ...
ZTE to unveil 8 handsets at MWC 2012
ZTE has confirmed that it will be bringing a total of eight new handsets to MWC 2012 in Barcelona covering both Android and Windows Phone.We’ve already seen ZTE launch its first Windows Phone, the Tania, earlier this year and the Chinese manufacturer has its sights firmly set on becoming a top three handset provider by 2015.He Shiyou, Executive Vice President and Head of the Terminals Division at ZTE said: “The new devices from ZTE will demonstrate how ZTE is without doubt among an elite group of handset providers as next generation telecommunications networks roll out ...
Microsoft Alleges Motorola Violating FRAND Practices In New Suit
Microsoft has filed a lawsuit with the European Commission against Motorola, claiming that the company is not offering licenses to standard essential patents at fair and reasonable rates. Microsoft is specifically calling out the licensing fees Motorola wants for 50 patents related to H.264 mobile video playback, which Microsoft claims are 1,000 times higher than the patent fees Microsoft pays to other vendors for similar licenses. Microsoft wants the EU to investigate Motorola’s patent licensing practices for standard essential patents. Apple filed a similar lawsuit against Motorola ...
LG Takes Another Shot with the Optimus 3D MAX
LG today announced the Optimus 3D MAX, an apparent update to last-year’s Optimus 3D. The 3D MAX features 2D and 3D image/video capture and playback with twin 5-megapixel main cameras and a 3D display. LG says it can convert Maps and other items into 3D for a more immersive experience. It also has a VGA user-facing camera for video chats. Other features include a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 4.3-inch QVGA display with Gorilla Glass 2, 8GB of storage and 1GB of RAM, support for HSPA+ at 21Mbps, and support for NFC and the new LG Tag+ system. It can connect to 3D monitors via an MHL port ...
Ericsson Claims to Triple HSPA Upload Speeds
Ericsson today announced that it has devised a way to triple the upload speeds across HSPA networks by making some alterations to how base stations handle such traffic. Ericsson said that a new set of software algorithms allows it to surpress the interference that WCDMA/HSPA base stations have to deal with on the uplink. Using the interference suppression technique in combination with configuring base stations with four antennas allows it to triple uplink speeds from 4Mbps to 12Mbps for a given 5MHz carrier. Ericsson says that this technique will not require network operators to invest in ...