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When Samsung announced the Galaxy S III in London in early May, they dubbed the event “Samsung Mobile Unpacked 2012“. According to the South Korean publication Digital Daily, Samsung is going to host “Samsung Mobile Unpacked 2012: Episode 2” on August 30th in Berlin, Germany at 19:00 local time. What are they going to show…
ZTE, the Chinese telecommunications company that’s widely known for their cheap Android smartphones, sent out a tweet yesterday that said: “The countdown has begun! 6 days left until you can have one of the MOST ADVANCED GAMING SMARTPHONES in your hands!” Poor use of capitalization aside, what could they possibly be talking about? Are they…
According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Nokia is going to close two of their four sales offices in China. To be more specific, the offices in Chengdu and Shanghai will be shut down and people will get laid off. Nokia isn’t saying how many people will lose their jobs, or when the…
There’s a term in the consumer electronics industry called the “Osborne effect“. Without getting into the whole story, once upon a time there was a company that launched a product. People loved said product. The company said the next version would be even better, so people decided to just wait. Sales dried up to such…
Ask Nokia how the Lumia 900 is doing in the United States and they’ll tell you that it’s been getting great reviews on Amazon. Ask them to give you some sales numbers, and they’ll just dodge the question and point you to a consumer survey that says Lumia owners are very satisfied with their purchase.…
Three months ago I took a shot at guessing how many Windows Phones Nokia sold during the first quarter of 2012. Using some simple multiplication, a few statistics published by a couple of analyst firms, and after making some assumptions, I cranked out the number 2.2 million. The actual result? 2 million. Nokia is going…
This year the city of London is hosting the Olympics, which means they’re going to invest tons of money into their infrastructure to make a lasting impression on the millions of tourists who will come and visit the old empire. The London Underground, which at close to 150 years old is one of the oldest…
Samsung’s Galaxy S III is, without a shadow of a doubt, the most advanced Android smartphone on the market today. According to the French newspaper Les Échos, the analysts at JPMorgan estimate that Samsung sold 6.5 million GSIII units during the second quarter (April through June) of this year and they’re on track to sell…
Jussi Hurmola, the CEO of JollaMobile, the company that will continue the work that Nokia started with MeeGo, but then abandoned to go with Windows Phone, sat down with me for 20 minutes this morning to answer a few questions. If you’d like to listen to the interview, then I suggest you check out the…
Verizon Wireless, like any other wireless operator around the world, will tell you that in order to build the biggest and baddest network they can, they need spectrum. That spectrum is normally auctioned off by governments. What companies do with the spectrum after they buy it is up to the companies to decide, for the…