Consumers seem to be responding well to the launch of the Nokia Lumia 900 on AT&T in the United States, but otherwise Windows Phone has been met with a cool reception from both customers and OEMs. One of the complaints levelled at the OS is the lack of customization that can be applied to the UI. That may be set to change in the future, as Netbook News has scored some info relating to the upcoming Apollo summit in the UK.
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HTC CEO: We’re committed to Beats Audio
HTC has officially commented on the replacement of its Chief Financial Officer this week, denying speculation that it shows a weakening in commitment to Beats By Dre. "The integration of the Beats brand and technology in the new HTC One series is a clear indication of our commitment to this partnership" HTC CEO Peter Chou said today. Outgoing CFO Winston Yung - who is being shifted to a "corporate development role" - had been connected by some to earlier enthusiasm around Beats Audio.
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HTC ditches outspoken CFO behind Beats strategy
HTC impressed reviewers with the new One series of phones, which includes the One X, One S, and One V, but that doesn’t mean that everything is hunky dory with the company. Shares recently dropped 6% thanks to two pieces of news. First, CFO Winston Yung was removed, and second, Samsung sent out those mysterious Galaxy S III invites.
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Motorola ditching TI in favor of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon
Motorola has enjoyed a long and happy relationship with Texas Instruments, and occasionally NVIDIA for their smartphones and tablets as of late but some new leaks could be showing a big change moving forward. If some recently leaked benchmark results from Blog of Mobile are accurate, Motorola could be switching to Qualcomm and their popular new S4 Snapdragon processor in the future.
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Nokia Lumia 900 review
Over the last year Nokia’s had something of a tumultuous time in the mobile industry. While still a power to be feared in the featurephone market, their lack of presence in the smartphone market has been keenly felt. With T-Mobile’s Lumia 710 as a prelude, the Finnish giant makes a return in earnest with the Lumia 900 on AT&T’s LTE network. Its features and design are immediately attractive, but perhaps more so is the price: just $99 on-contract, or free for new AT&T customers. Can a combination of great design, high-end features and price make a bold statement for Nokia? Let’s find out.
Microsoft’s Windows Phone Sales Silence Speaks Volumes
Microsoft’s quarterly financial results today make for great reading if you’re a shareholder, with a record $20.9bn in revenue, but are less reassuring if you’re a Windows Phone fan. The big software company broke down Windows 7 licensing numbers, spilled its Bing search share and gleefully detailed Xbox 360 and Kinect sensor sales, but Microsoft’s smartphone OS merited little more than a vague mention of “a lot of excitement.” This was Microsoft’s most obvious opportunity to hammer home whatever dent Windows Phone had made in the mobile market; that it didn’t leaves us more than a little concerned.
Google’s Schmidt: No Android fragmentation, only differentiation
Google's Eric Schmidt has again denied there is any fragmentation problem within Android, claiming that the platform instead shows customer-friendly "differentiation." Speaking at CES this week, where many manufacturers revealed devices running older versions of Android but promised Ice Cream Sandwich upgrades at some point later this year, Schmidt argued that "differentiation is positive, fragmentation is negative," PCMag reports. The deciding factor, he claimed, was that apps ran across devices on different iterations of Android.
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Microsoft’s Nokia smartphone division acquisition tipped imminent
Rumors of Microsoft buying Nokia‘s smartphone division have resurfaced, with claims that the key execs at the firms will meet in Las Vegas imminently to finalize the sale. Steve Ballmer and Andy Lees from Microsoft and Stephen Elop and Kai Oistamo from Nokia plan to transfer the smartphone section over, where it would be run under a new Microsoft-led name not as Nokia, arch insider Eldar Murtazin has claimed today, leaving the Finnish firm pushing a portfolio of dumbphones and would-be smartphone alternatives.
Microsoft and Nokia US Windows Phone budget is $200m corrects insider
Nokia and Microsoft's combined marketing budget for the US launch of Nokia Windows Phones is double that of previous suggestions, coming in at around $200m, according to insiders with knowledge of the companies' plans. After reports suggesting a roughly $100m promo fund for the AT&T debut of the Nokia 900 "Ace" earlier, notorious insider Paul Thurrott has stepped up with a figure double that, as well as the suggestion that, for the AT&T launch, Nokia is outspending Microsoft 2-to-1.
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Intel and Microsoft mobile shake-up: WP7 Lees “benched”, Intel groups combined
Intel and Microsoft are undergoing significant mobile reorganization in an attempt to boost their chances against Android and iPhone, with exec shuffling including the “benching” of Windows Phone’s previous chief, Andy Lees. While Microsoft described Lees’ new position in the company as “focused on driving maximum impact in 2012 with Windows Phone and Windows 8″ in actual fact, sources told The Verge that in fact “he’s been benched” with what amounts to a demotion due to increasingly tense relations with manufacturers and failing to deliver on the smartphone platform’s goals.
HTC: 2012 “focus on the product” to avoid Nokia fate
HTC has insisted it is not another Nokia, relying on a "focus on the product" in early 2012 including "some worldwide flagship products" to restore its position in the smartphone market. Despite investors' negative reaction to HTC slashing its Q4 forecast last week, CFO Winston Yung is still confident the company can turn things around; "I don't think it's so serious" the finance chief told Reuters, suggesting that both LTE devices for the US and other products for the international market were on the cards.
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HTC Chromebook in pipeline tip sources
HTC is reportedly considering producing a Chromebook using Google's Chrome OS, despite underwhelming sales of Acer and Samsung hardware using the cloud-centric platform. The new HTC - billed as an "internet-access device" - would differ in that the company is apparently looking to "combine the advantages" of Android and Chrome OS, according to DigiTimes' supply chain sources, though it's unclear if that means a dual-boot arrangement or something else.
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