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San Francisco is actually a hotbed of smartphone activity with multiple mobile startups and everyone and their mom rocking an Apple iPhone, but the city is in a war with the mobile industry over the issue of cell phone radiation. The industry’s trade association, the CTIA, recently filed a lawsuit against San Francisco’s ordinance which…
You may not have to wait long for the next, great Galaxy S Android phone because the Sprint Samsung Epic 4G could be hit around August 30, according to Samsung’s promotional pattern. Android Police first noticed that Samsung posts promotional videos on its devices on or near the release of its Galaxy S handset. For…
It was Wall Street week as Apple, Microsoft and Nokia posted very different quarterly earnings and these provided great insight into who is winning in the mobile space. We also put the Samsung Galaxy S phones under the microscope and Apple finally started taking orders for those free bumper cases. Let’s stop wasting time and…
The Samsung Captivate is the Galaxy S variant for AT&T and the Android phone is really, really good – It’s packed full of features, has a good operating system and the screen will blow you away. But with the Motorola Droid X, EVO 4G and Apple iPhone 4, “really good” is not good enough for…
Buoyed by Android devices like the Droid Incredible and the Motorola Droid X, Verizon was able to sign up more customers than rival AT&T during the last quarter. Verizon added 1.4 million new customers, but the number it really cares about is the number post-paid users, or subscribers on long-term contracts. Verizon was able to…
Remember when San Francisco implemented an ordinance requiring vendors to display how much radiation was emitted from cell phones? Well, you know the wireless industry wasn’t going to be happy about that and the industry’s trade association, the CTIA, has filed a lawsuit against the San Francisco. In a prepared statement, the wireless industry group…
We touched upon the drag Microsoft’s mobile division had on its fourth-quarter earnings, but I overlooked the fact that the company had to write off at least $240 million for the ill-fated Kin phones. That $240 million could just be the baseline figure, as Engadget points out, because you could very well add on the…
In a great show of cross-industry cooperation, Sprint said it has completed its mission of clearing up 35 MHz of broadcast auxiliary service spectrum across the nation. The move comes as the industry is facing a looming “< ahref="http://s06coeda4d.onrocket.site/2010/02/24/fcc-seeks-more-wireless-spectrum-for-mobile-broadband-data-networks/">spectrum crisis” – more and more consumers want to use mobile data services but the choke point…
Microsoft has a really strong fiscal fourth quarter with $4.52 billion in profit on $16.04 billion in revenue but its mobile side continues to struggle. The Entertainment and Devices division recorded an operating loss of $172 million. While this isn’t all Windows Mobile’s fault because that division also includes the Xbox, it’s not hard to…
Amazon has seen more than $1 billion in sales from mobile devices over the last year, the company said during its second-quarter earnings announcement. The company has apps for the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android and other platforms, and these appear to be paying off. “We’re also encouraged by what we see in mobile. In…