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Now that everyone has published their Q1 2011 financial results it’s time for the experts to step in and run the numbers and feed us with fancy statistics and pie charts that make fanbois all across the internet go mad. Analysts at Canalys say that 101 million smartphones shipped during the first 3 months of…
Handsets makers strongly believe in something called segmentation, meaning that they come up with a list of imaginary people who possess certain types of character traits that would make them want one handset in a vendor’s portfolio versus another. In other words, they stereotype, but instead of basing their conclusions on bigotry, they do it…
Over the years we’ve seen mobile phones come in various form factors as handset makers try their hardest to think up a gimmick that can drive up sales. LG, back in 2006, released a device called the EnV. It had a full QWERTY keyboard and two screens, one on the outside of the device, right…
Last November we reported that AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile got together and formed a joint venture called Isis that aimed to make every new mobile phone sold near field enabled, thus turning it into a mobile wallet. Along with the 3 operators, Discover and Barclays signed up to help handle the actual financial part of…
The bean counters over at ABI Research are going out on a limb and predicting that by the close of this year there will be approximately 16 million people using LTE. Considering that Verizon, during their Q1 2011 financial results conference call, said that there are only 565,000 people using their newly launched 4G LTE…
When a Nokia handset launches in America, somewhere in heaven an angel gets its wings. The Finnish handset maker has had such terrible luck with exporting their products to the United States that we wonder why they still even bother trying. In their Q1 2011 financial results Nokia said they shipped 1.2 million handsets in…
T-Mobile has just announced, via Twitter, that they’ve just launched 21 Mbps HSPA+ in Fort Myers, Florida; Pueblo, Colorado; and Wilkes Barre-Scranton, Pennsylvania. Several seconds on Wikipedia and a little number crunching later we’ve calculated that there are now 210,000 more Americans covered by their 4G network. That’s not a lot, but it’s better than…
Forget about the NoDo update to Windows Phone that came out in February and enabled cut/copy/paste along with support for CDMA networks, and forget about the Mango update coming out later this year that will be eventually be called Windows Phone 7.5 and bring a new browser and multitasking, Microsoft is now honest to goodness…
In a new Nokia patent discovered by Unwired View, it appears that the Finnish handset maker is planning to release not only a dual screen mobile phone at some point in the future, but that one of those two screens will be 3D enabled. The question you may be thinking to yourself is why? The…
According to a survey commissioned by the Consumers Union, the guys who publish the widely read Consumer Reports, 73% of 981 people interviewed are in favor of the United States government passing a law that would require every new mobile phone sold to be compatible with every wireless network in America. Now you and I…