According to a Bloomberg report that cites 3 unnamed sources, the next version of Apple’s iPad, the iPad 3, will arrive in March sporting an HD display and LTE 4G data. Tweet Vote on HN ...
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Motorola’s rugged DEFY MINI smartphone hands-on from CES
The DEFY MINI is a new, smaller version of Motorola’s rugged DEFY smartphone. It was announced the week before CES started, and it features the same tough body, Corning Gorilla Glass, and water-resistant body of the larger DEFY. We caught up with it at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Motorola MOTOLUXE Android smartphone live images, video from CES
Motorola’s MOTOLUXE, which was announced the week before CES began, is a device that will not get as much love as it probably should. That’s largely because it will get slammed for having an 800MHz processor even though it has a nice suite of otherwise high-end specs. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Motorola issues statement regarding ITC preliminary ruling in its favor against Apple
Today Motorola issued a statement on the favorable ruling it received in its International Trade Commission battle against Apple. The administrative law judge in the case found that Motorola did not infringe upon any of the three patents named in Apple’s suit. Scott Offer, senior vice president and general counsel of Motorola Mobility, had the following to say: Motorola Mobility has worked hard over the years to develop technology and build an industry-leading intellectual property portfolio. We are proud to leverage this broad and deep portfolio to create differentiated innovations ...
Samsung to merge bada with Intel’s Tizen
A Samsung executive has been quoted as saying that his company plans to merge its own bada smartphone operating system with Intel’s Tizen Project, which is based on the remnants of the the MeeGo OS that Intel developed with Nokia. Tweet Vote on HN ...
ZTE to double phone shipments, expand Windows Phone deployment in 2012
According to Reuters, ZTE has set some lofty goals for its 2012. The company, which is generally considered the fourth largest phone manufacturer in the world, has said that it plans to at least double the number of phones it ships in 2012 Tweet Vote on HN ...
Samsung to use larger smartphone batteries for all-day use in 2012
Samsung vice president Kevin Packingham has said that his company intends for the batteries in all of its 2012 smartphones to be able to last at least a full day, from wake-up until bed, with average to moderately Tweet Vote on HN ...
HTC offers bootloader unlock tool for more smartphone models
HTC recently announced that the bootloader unlock tool that allows users to load custom versions of the Android operating system on their devices is now available for more smartphones in the HTC family. The new phones added to the compatibility list for the tool are the HTC Desire Z, ChaCha, Aria, DROID Incredible, Status, and T-Mobile G2. As before, use of the tool requires the Android SDK and will void the device’s warranty. Tweet Vote on HN ...
LG Pays Microsoft for Android
Microsoft today announced that LG has signed a patent licensing agreement covering Android products. Microsoft holds a variety of patents that it claims Android infringes on. HTC, Samsung, and eight other companies have already signed similar agreements with Microsoft. With the addition of LG, Microsoft now has agreements with companies that account for over 70 percent of all Android phones sold in the U.S. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Nokia Unloads Some GSM Patents
Nokia has sold a total of 450 patents to a European patent licensing company called Sisvel. The patents include some “essential” telecommunications technologies, such as GSM, UMTS/WCDMA and LTE. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Tweet Vote on HN ...