Gorilla glass, the impossible to break, impossible to scratch, material that has shipped on devices such as the Motorola Droid and LG’s X300 notebook, started out as “Project Muscle” in a Corning laboratory in the late 1950s. The goal was to make a sheet of glass as strong as that of steel. The technique, if…
LTE in the USA: First LTE mobile phone passes through the FCC, Verizon LTE dongle leaked
IDC: Mobile phone shipments up 18.5% compared to the first half of 2009
International Data Corporation (IDC) keeps meticulous records of who ships what in the mobile phone space and today they’re reporting that shipments for the first half of 2010 totaled 620.6 million units, up 18.5% from the 523.5 million units shipped during the first two quarters of 2009. If that isn’t a sign that the economy…
Motorola Q2 2010: $162 million in profit on $5.4 billion in sales; 2.7 million smartphones shipped
Motorla’s Q2 2010 financial results are out today and with $162 million in profit made, versus $26 million in Q2 2009, on $5.4 billion in sales, the company has some celebrating to do tonight. Motorola shipped 8.3 million phones and of those 2.7 million were smartphones. Kind of weak. That’s 30,000 smartphones a day during…
Downloaded Jackeey Wallpaper for Android? Your personal information is now on some Chinese server!
At the Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas, John Hering, CEO of Lookout, and Kevin MaHaffey, the CTO, has told audience members that Jackeey Wallpaper, an application in the Android Market, steals your personal information and then transmits it to a server located somewhere in China. Jackeey Wallpaper has been download between 1 and…
Ultrabrief: Say hello to “Xi”, NTT DOCOMO’s name for their LTE service
Japanese operator NTT DOCOMO today unveiled “Xi”, the name for their LTE network due to launch in December of this year in Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. Speeds are supposed to hit 75 Mbps (9.375 megabytes per second!) on the downlink. Assuming Verizon launches their LTE network on November 15th, then Xi will be the 3rd…
Vodafone launches the VF 247 in India, $32 buys you a phone with built in solar charger
Vodafone has recently launched the VF 247 in India, which is due to go on sale this August for 1,500 Indian Rupees, or roughly $32. Vodafone says that the device only needs to be in the sun for 8 hours to get a full charge. Said full charge gives you roughly a week of standby…
Opera State of the Mobile Web June 2010: Africa loves to browse the internets
Opera has just published their latest issue of their “State of the Mobile Web” report that highlights browsing trends and behaviors using data collected from their nearly 60 million Opera Mini users. Since a web page rendered in Opera Mini first goes to a remote server, where it is then compressed by up to 90%…
Nokia N8 available for preorder in Italy for $610, shipping end of September
The Nokia N8, announced back in April, is starting to show signs that it’s finally going to hit the market. The N8 popped up on Nokia’s Italian site and is available for preorder for the low low price of only 470 EUR, or roughly $610. That’s your typical smartphone price here in Europe, no surprises.…
UK: 800/2600 MHz spectrum to go on sale late next year, 900/1800 MHz can be used for 3G
Spectrum is a funny thing. Who ever knew that you could put a price on air? To throw some figures out there regarding just how expensive empty space can be: the result of America’s auction for the 700 MHz band, which was nearly 2.5 years ago if you can believe that since it felt just…