According to Gartner, Sony Ericsson slipped to fifth place in global mobile phone market share during the first-quarter of 2008, overtaken by Korean vendor LG. Sony Ericsson sold 22.1 million units in the quarter for a 7.5% market share, behind LG’s total sales of 23.6 million units and 8% share. The Swedish-Japanese company previously warned…
Archives for June 2008
Two Indian companies enter the handset market
Two Indian companies have announced plans to enter the country’s fast-growing mobile handset market by launching low-cost devices. According to India’s Economic Times, the electronics and home appliances company Orpat is launching two new GSM handsets based on NXP Semiconductors’ chips. It will promote the devices at its 50,000 retail outlets and is targeting sales…
Video: Even more Sony Ericsson device demos – W760, W980, G700, G900
Sony Ericsson and/or the fans of their products keep infiltrating YouTube with latest phone demo clips. Today, we bring you the latest batch of these videos. Four devices are presented – two Walkman phones – W760 and W980; and two Symbian UIQ smartphones – G700 and G900. All phones mentioned target mid-to-high-end market segment, and…
LG launches Viewty in Hot Red in Ukraine
LG keeps adding new Viewty color options. Aside from the original black, the 5 megapixel camera equipped device is also available in silver, pink, and purple. Add “Hot Red” in the mix too, as the Korean giant just announced such-colored Viewty in Ukraine, according to Mobile-Review. LG will certainly market the device towards women who…
RoverPC P7 PDA smartphone looks cool, lacks 3G
RoverPC has released a new smartphone in Russia, P7, which supersedes the earlier P6 model. The fancy-lookin’ device runs the latest version of Windows Mobile (6.1) and gets all its power from Marvell’s PCA270 416MHz CPU. Other specs include 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen, Bluetooth 2.0, WiFi, tri-band GSM/GPRS + EDGE radio (900/1800/1900 MHz), and a 2…
Deal: Callpod’s 6-in-1 charger Chargepod now $39.95!
Roughly a year ago, we wrote about Callpod’s 6-in-1 charger called Chargepod. The versatile charger used to cost $79.95, but Callpod decided it’s about time to make it appealing to wider audience, hence they’ve reduced the price to $39.95. The problem, though, is that “manufacturer specific adaptors” kept their price, meaning that you’ll still have…
Pantech C820 slips through FCC; Pantech Duo 2?
Let’s see, the Pantech Duo is actually the model number C810, so what kind of a device would wear the C820 “badge?” Maybe Pantech Duo 2? We’re not sure of course, but that certainly makes sense. To be fair, the “Duo 2” is kinda awkward name, but hey, if Intel could do it, Pantech can…
Sony Ericsson teases us with more XPERIA X1 pics
Like I already don’t want the XPERIA so bad, Sony Ericsson is adding salt on my wound. September never felt so distant, and in the meantime the Swedish-Japanese handset maker’s website (or that’s marketing) team made more XPERIA X1 images available. As you’ve just seen — and there are more photos after the jump —…
Movistar brings iPhone to Spain
And we’ve wondered what happened to Spain. The country was left out in all iPhone announcements during last couple of weeks. It was kinda obvious Apple will re-use its existing “partner in crime” from the UK, where Telefonica-owned O2 is the exclusive carrier of the iPhone. Now, their Spanish subsidiary, Movistar, got the same contract…