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Sony R&D develops new single wire technology for mobile phone data and power

Shane McGlaun, Aug 20th 2010 Discuss [0]

Sony Corporation has announced a new technology that has been developed in its R&D center that uses a single internal cable rather than multiple cables inside a phone to transmit data and power inside the device. The new tech will improve the flexibility for designing products and the reliability in the mobile devices that have movable mechanisms like a flip or slider phone. Read The Full Story

Nokia X3-02 Touch and Type pairs touchscreen with S40

Satsuki Then, Aug 17th 2010 Discuss [1]

Nokia has unveiled its latest touchscreen handset, though the new Nokia X3-02 Touch and Type is resolutely entry-level rather than something for the company's high-end users. Running S40 on a 2.4-inch resistive touchscreen, the X3-02 also has a numeric keypad, 3G and WiFi, and will launch in Q3 2010 priced at around €125 ($161). Read The Full Story

Samsung Gusto slides into Verizon, looks like 5 years ago

Shane McGlaun, Aug 12th 2010 Discuss [0]

Samsung added a new phone to its line for those who really only want a basic device. If you are the sort that doesn’t know Android from iOS and just want to be able to make calls and stare at those texts people send you wondering exactly how they do that, the Gusto may be for you. Read The Full Story

Nintendo & Nokia gaming phone could’ve rewritten the N-Gage story

Satsuki Then, Aug 10th 2010 Discuss [1]

The Nokia N-Gage failed to set the world alight, but had a Nintendo skunkworks R&D team had their way we could've seen a very different outcome. According to Pocket Gamer's development source, at around the same time that Nokia was working on the N-Gage, an R&D collaboration between the Finns and Nintendo saw a Nintendo phone concept prepared for executive approval. However, the Nintendo board of directors failed to greenlight production. Read The Full Story

Nokia: we are “front of the pack” in LBS; no Sprint phone plans

Chris Davies, Aug 6th 2010 Discuss [9]

Nokia reckons that location-based services are the future of mobile internet, and believes itself to be ahead of the pack with its NAVTEQ IP. That's the message from sales and marketing chief Niklas Savander, who took to Twitter yesterday and invited questions about the Finnish company's plans and premonitions. Savander also reiterated Nokia's plan for "a major product milestone by the end of the year"; however anybody looking for true insight in their tweet stream likely ended up disappointed. Read The Full Story

Vodafone axe Samsung H2 development; Vodafone 360 to be platform agnostic

Chris Davies, Jul 26th 2010 Discuss [0]

Vodafone UK has axed its standalone range of Samsung-made Vodafone 360 devices, according to Mobile Industry Review, though the carrier's various 360 services will continue to be available. The news means that the recently leaked Samsung H2 (aka the Samsung I8330) will no longer be making its debut; according to Vodafone, they're now looking to put 360 services on as many devices as possible, rather than holding them back for a smaller selection of so-called "bespoke" handsets. Read The Full Story

KIN cost Microsoft over $240m and ate up Xbox profits

Chris Davies, Jul 23rd 2010 Discuss [0]

Decent financial performance aside, there was one thorn in Microsoft's paw during the company's results call and that was the KIN write-off. With the handsets themselves ousted from Verizon stores and sales frozen, all that was left was to figure out how much of the company's cash had been wasted overall. Without development costs, Microsoft admitted, they'd spent $240m on the project. Read The Full Story

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Why Physical Keyboards are Still Relevant

Don Reisinger, Jul 22nd 2010 Discuss [10]

With the DROID X sold out, Apple’s iPhone 4 continuing to capture headlines, and the touchscreen market booming, it’s quickly becoming clear that the virtual keyboard is here to stay. And whether consumers like it or not, they will need to live with it.

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Nokia Q2 finances revealed: profit down but smartphone sales up

Chris Davies, Jul 22nd 2010 Discuss [0]

Nokia's financial results for the second quarter of 2010 are out, and it's a mixed bag. Despite the doomsday predictions, sales of Nokia devices - both smartphones and mainstream handsets - are up, with 111.1m units shipped (an increase of 8-percent compared to the same quarter twelve months ago, and up 3-percent from Q1 2010); smartphones in particular (or "converged mobile devices" as Nokia refers to them) saw volumes rise 42-percent year-on-year to 24m units. However, the flip side is a reduced average selling price per device, which cut into Nokia's profits; Devices & Services' operating profit was down to €643m ($820m), a 16-percent fall in comparison to the same three month period a year ago, while overall net profit was €221 ($282m), down from €380m ($485). Read The Full Story

Nokia Kinetic concept sits up to get your attention

Chris Davies, Jul 19th 2010 Discuss [1]

Man's best friend (and woman's, too, for that matter) is now their cellphone - dogs are so awfully 20th century - and designer Jeremy Innes-Hopkins' Nokia Kinetic concept can even sit up and beg. Intended to make non-audible alerts more noticeable, the Kinetic concept has a curved base and, when the phone rings or a new message comes in, can gradually sit upright to notify you. Read The Full Story

Verizon’s unsold KIN being returned today; websales frozen

Chris Davies, Jul 18th 2010 Discuss [1]

If you were still harboring desires for a Microsoft KIN of your own, act fast. According to two sources speaking to WMExperts, Verizon are freezing sales and sending back all remaining stock today, Sunday July 18th. Having axed the feature-phone project - targeted at a "Generation Upload" teen market that didn't seem particularly inclined to either give up their regular "adult" smartphones or stomach overpriced data packages - it now looks like Microsoft are gathering up the unwanted remnants. Read The Full Story

Verizon DROID, DEVOUR and Tour 9630 all axed?

Chris Davies, Jul 16th 2010 Discuss [0]

A Verizon leak has tipped various smartphones as reaching end-of-life status, including the Motorola DROID and its less-endearing sibling the Motorola DEVOUR. Droid Forums received a screenshot from an internal Verizon message, tipping the two Android handsets as expected to see "limited or no remaining shipments from the vendor", together with the Nokia 7705 Twist and the BlackBerry Tour 9630. Read The Full Story