The bean counters at Strategy Analytics have done their due diligence, poured their data into a spreadsheet, and have come to the unsurprising conclusion that Nokia simply isn’t what it used to be. Having shipped just 82.7 million handsets in Q1 2012, Samsung’s estimated 93+ million handsets mean that the South Korean handset vendor has,…
Dear Nintendo: Now that you’re not making money anymore, it’s time to join the mobile industry
Nintendo has just posted their first operating loss. For a company that’s been chugging along since 1889, that’s rough. But there’s still hope. The Nintendo brand and all the characters that they’ve created over the years are still loved throughout the world. That being said, times have changed, and people don’t buy $50 games for…
TSMC: 28 nm chips responsible for just 5% of our revenues, expect 20 nm chips in 2013
Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Texas Instruments, what do all those companies have in common? They design chips, but they don’t actually make them. That incredibly difficult task is done by TSMC, short for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. They just posted their Q1 2012 financial results, and profits are down 7.7% year over year. Why’s that? Two reasons.…
Video: Watch Nokia Siemens Networks test TD-LTE by putting 200 laptops on the sidewalk
China Mobile is the world’s largest mobile operator in terms of subscribers. With 665 million customers, that’s would be like giving every man, woman, and child in the United States not just one, but two mobile phones. Anyway, like every other operator in the world, these guys want to roll out 4G LTE. Unlike most…
Video: Columbia gets in on the sport tracking game with GPS PAL
I’ll never forget 1996. The winter that hit New York that year was absolutely ridiculous. The city basically shut down due to the epic snowfall that happened seemingly overnight. My friends and I had snow ball fights that resulted in some serious injuries, we built tunnels that homeless people then proceeded to urinate in, and…
Former Nokia Executive: “Elop is struggling. The results speak for themselves.”
Lee Williams was the Senior Vice President of S60 Software between August 2006 and January 2009. During that 30 month time span we saw what was arguably Nokia’s greatest creation, the N95, and on the other side of the coin the company’s worst smartphone to ever be sold, the N97. So what does Lee think…
Samsung announces quad core Exynos chip, says it’ll power the Galaxy S III
In one week Samsung will hold a press conference in London to unveil their 2012 hero device, the Galaxy S III. May 3rd can’t come any sooner to be honest, because I’m frankly fed up with the amount of rumors flying out from all four corners of the internet. Bitching and moaning aside, today the…
LG’s handset division has now made money for two quarters in a row
LG’s handset division lost money for six consecutive quarters until Q4 2011 when it made roughly $8.8 million. Now that the company’s Q1 2012 financial results are out, we’re pleased to say that they’ve made money once again, about $30.7 million. Those numbers are incredibly tiny, but they’re better than nothing. How about revenues though,…
Rumor: HTC to release “The Facebook Phone” later this year
HTC and Google used to have such a fantastic relationship. The first Android phone, the G1 for T-Mobile, was made by HTC. The first Nexus phone, aptly called the Nexus One, was also made by HTC. But these days … it’s safe to say that Android wouldn’t be where it is today if it wasn’t…
AnandTech: Intel’s first smartphone is finally out, and now it’s been reviewed too
The geniuses, and I don’t use that word lightly, at AnandTech have somehow managed to score the Lava Xolo X900, otherwise known as the first smartphone to use an Intel chip instead of an ARM chip. At close to 9,000 words, it’s safe to call their review of the X900 an incredible exhaustive one. I’m…