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Jorma Ollila (pictured above, right) has been with Nokia for 27 years and many Finnish people say he’s the guy that put the country on the map. His decision to transition the company from making cables to making mobile phones made Nokia into the world’s largest handset company. They lost that title in Q1 2012…
Next month is going be brutal for technology reporters. Apple is holding their annual Worldwide Developers Conference on June 11th, Google is holding their annual I/O event on June 27th, and now Microsoft has just announced the Windows Phone Developer Summit, due to kick off on June 20th. It’ll take place in San Francisco, and…
Samsung has just announced that they’ve sold 2 million Galaxy Notes just 5 months after bringing the product to their home market. To give you an idea of how impressive that is, South Korea is a country that’s home to roughly 49 million people. In other words, 4% of the country decided to spend their…
The BlackBerry form factor, better known as portrait QWERTY, doesn’t get a lot of love these days from handset vendors. Nearly every major device that’s been announced during the past half decade has just a giant slab of glass. What are people who want to use their thumbs going to do? Enter the Huawei M660.…
When Qualcomm reported their fiscal second quarter 2012 financial results last month, they not only announced a record breaking quarter, but they also told investors that they would increase “operating expenses to facilitate additional 28 nanometer supply”. That’s a fancy way of saying “shortage” without actually freaking people out. According to a recent tweet from…
Remember when Google announced their intent to buy Motorola Mobility back in August 2011? Here we are, almost 9 months later, and the deal still hasn’t closed. Why? Because of China, who has yet to approve the deal for reasons we can’t understand. America has signed off on the acquisition, and so has the EU,…
We have three data points regarding Nokia’s Windows Phone sales. One, the Lumia 800 went on sale on November 15, 2011. Two, on January 26, 2012, the Finnish handset maker said it has sold “over a million Lumia units to date.” Three, Nokia announced that they sold over 2 million Lumia devices in Q1 2012.…
Earlier this week LG said that they don’t want to support team Windows Phone anymore. Who can blame them? The OS has little to no market share, Microsoft is prioritizing Nokia, and Android is showing no signs of slowing down. Before LG made the decision to stop supporting Microsoft’s mobile OS however, there was one…
Huawei released a device called the Sonic about a year ago that shipped with Android 2.3, came with a 3.5 inch 480 x 320 display, 3.2 megapixel camera, 600 MHz processor, GPS/3G/WiFi, and all that jazz. According to Android Community, it’s going to hit T-Mobile USA this coming Sunday as the Prism. They don’t know…
Every two weeks Google updates a website that shows which versions of Android have been accessing Play, the company’s store for apps, movies, music, and other digital content. The latest figures show that the newest version of Android, which as of today is 4.0.4, is currently running on just 4.4% of the devices that use…