Apr

2011

Mass lawsuit targets Google, RIM, Apple, HTC and 28 others

by Dustin Karnes
tagged Android, app, apple, blackberry, Google, HTC, iOS, iphone, lawsuit, LG, market, Nokia, rim, store

We’ve seen sweeping patents before, but this may be the first one of this magnitude. According to the patent being defended: A software platform in an Internet Protocol (IP) phone having the ability to be used with different communication infrastructures such as broadband, wireless communication and Plain Old Telephone System (POTS) service. Further, the software [...]

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Mar

2011

Motorola replacing Android with own Web-based OS?

by Jesse Bauer
tagged adobe, Android, apple, Atrix, blackberry, Google, HP, iOS, laptop dock, motorola, Nokia, OS, rim, rumor, theory, webos, webtop

A new article put out by informationweek suggests that Motorola may be working on a new ‘web-based’ operating system of their own rather than continuing on with Android OS for their mobile devices. The article points out that Motorola has been on a ‘hiring spree’ so to speak bringing on employees with a significant amount [...]

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Feb

2011

Android will own 80% of smartphone market predicts Kaspersky Co-Founder

by Jesse Bauer
tagged Android, android os, antivirus, apple, blackberry, elop, Google, iOS, kaspersky, market share, microsoft, MWC, mwc2011, Nokia, own, rim, smartphones

In a statement made at MWC, Eugene Kaspersky (co-founder of Kaspersky Labs) said that he believes Android OS will consume 80% of teh smartphone market, leaving RIM and Apple to fight over the last 20% remaining, with Microsoft eating the crumbs off the table essentially. We know that Android has been hot and out-pacing many [...]

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Feb

2011

At MWC Nokia’s first priority – ‘is beating Android’?

by Jesse Bauer
tagged Android, keynote, microsoft, MWC, mwc2011, Nokia, stephen elop, StephenElop, windows phone, WindowsPhon

You’ve probably all heard about the partnership announced by Nokia and Microsoft earlier this week, and maybe even all the hysteria over at Nokia dumping MeeGo and Symbian for WP7. ‘Desperate times call for desperate measures’, should have been the title of Nokia’s event at MWC earlier today, because this is definitely the time for [...]

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Feb

2011

Preview of Mobile World Congress: Galaxy 2, 3D Phones

by Michael Murphy
tagged ericsson, galaxy, HTC, LG, microsoft, mobile world congress, MWC, Nokia, Optimus 3D, Samsung, sony, Xperia Play

We’ve been talking about Mobile World Congress for weeks now…pretty much since CES. It’s coming up this week, and IntoMobile has a great preview of the upcoming show. They seem to have a pretty good idea of who’s showing off what, and they’re breaking it down for us.

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Feb

2011

Nokia Announces “Strategic Partnership” with Microsoft

by Brian Rubin
tagged microsoft, Nokia, symbian, windows mobile

Yesterday, our own Michael Murphy wrote about speculation as to what Nokia’s next OS would be, seeing their choices as either Android or Windows OS. Well, today per a press release from the cell phone giant, Nokia made it official…they’re partnering with Microsoft to create a “a new global mobile ecosystem”.

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Feb

2011

Nokia Considering Next OS: MeeGo, Android, or Windows 7

by Michael Murphy
tagged Android, meego, Nokia, smartphones

Nokia products world-wide hold a respectable portion of the mobile market. Their dumbphone Symbian OS still has the most users globally by most tallies, but their smartphones have had a hard time finding footing…largely because their OS was developed in-house, and they have floundered between several versions. But tomorrow is the day that it will [...]

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Feb

2011

Smartphones outsell PCs for the first time in Q4 2010

by Jesse Bauer
tagged 2010, HTC, IDC, Nokia, pc, pcs, q4, rim, sales, Samsung, smartphone, smartphones

You know it’s a monumental shift when something that has only been around a few years takes over something that’s been around for a couple decades. An article at ReadWriteWeb posted results of smartphone sales versus PC sales in Q4 of 2010. Smartphones sold 100.9 million OEM units in that quarter, while PCs sold 92.1 [...]

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Dec

2010

New study shows Android users consume more mobile data than iOS, Blackberry, Symbian and more

by Dustin Karnes
tagged 7, Android, apple, blackberry, data, Google, ipad, iphone, mobile, Nokia, Phone, rim, symbian, windows, wp7

According to a new study, users of Android devices use up more data than any other mobile consumers on the market. The explaination? Quite simple, really; there are simply more Android phones out there than any other. While the iPhone and iPad are locked down to a single carrier, Blackberries just don’t use up as [...]

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Nov

2010

Android phones outselling Windows Phone 7 devices 15 to 1

by Dustin Karnes
tagged 7, Android, Google, iOS, iphone, microsoft, Nokia, outsold, Phone, popular, symbian, uk, unpopular, windows, wp7

In the UK, mobile retailer MobilesPlease gave out some data that indicated Windows Phone 7 sales to be down the tubes thus far. The data indicated that WP7 devices are being outsold by Android devices by a ratio of 15:1, and that even Symbian is outselling WP7 by a ratio of 3:1. The company recognizes [...]

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