This just hit the Dow Jones Newswire, emphasis added by me: AT&T has sued AU Optronics, LG Display, Samsung Electronics and other liquid-crystal display makers alleging price-fixing in the LCD market. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, alleges a “long-running conspiracy” from Jan. 1, 1996, to Dec. 11, 1996, to fix,…
UK: The N in Nokia’s Nseries stands for not recommended
Long time Nokia fanbois and fangirls know that Nokia’s Nseries devices pack the latest hardware and software inside, albeit at the cost of some instability, while the Eseries packs the hardware and software from the previous generation, but thankfully has been matured and made highly stable, and finally the numbered devices, 6220 Classic for example, are…
Leaked: Dell is apparently a size queen, creates 5 inch Android 2.0 powered device
Today Dell announced a new partnership with MC Hammer whereby the two famous household brands are going to launch a new mobile device along with a pair of pants with pockets large enough to carry said new Android 2.0 powered device. The “Streak”, as Engadget are calling it, packs a massive 5 inch capacitive screen…
Google releasing their own Android smartphone … what are you, retarded?
Simple men who have important things to worry about, such as their 9 to 5 job, their children, and whether or not they’ll have sex with their wife this year, trust financial investors with their money. These special breed of men, skilled at using Microsoft Excel and one of those $300 scientific calculators that can…
Nokia is planning something on Thursday in London
Nokia (NYSE: NOK)’s word of mouth marketing team are up to their silly little tricks again, this time staging an event in London for a select group of 10 mobile bloggers this Thursday. The invitation is one big arrow shaped box and comes with a Nokia N97 inside. “The Nokia Signpost opening on the 23rd…
Acer: We want to ship 500,000 smartphones by the end of this year, 2 million in 2010
Acer, the personal computer firm who purchased E-Ten a little over a year ago, has set some ambitious targets for themselves according to an internal estimate that was leaked to Digitimes. By the end of this year Acer hopes to ship between 400,000 and 500,000 smartphones, while in 2010 they think they can do better…
Leaked: Nokia 2200 Slide: S40, low resolution screen, VGA camera, but pretty in pink
The Nokia 2200 Slide has been leaked and it’s nothing you iPhone packing, Nokia Nseries toting, HTC Android (or Windows Mobile) powered fanbois have to worry about in terms of shrinking your e-penis. What we’re looking at is a S40 powered slider with a 128 x 160 resolution screen, dual band GSM/EDGE capability on the…
Brief: Nokia files trademark for “Ovi Prime Place”, no idea what that could mean
Aleksi Moisio, a writer for Talous Sanomat, a Finnish publication, who was the first to tell IntoMobile about Nokia’s previously filed trademarks: Xseris, Cseries, Netbook and Money, brings news of a new trademark that was filed in Finland on October 14th: Ovi Prime Place. We have absolutely no idea what Prime Place actually is, or…
Brief: Nokia and TANLA sign 5 year agreement to work on mobile payments
Looks like Obopay isn’t the only parter Nokia is going to be working with on providing mobile payments. Today Nokia signed a 5 year agreement with TANLA, an Indian company, to provide a “mobile payment service to enable on device transactions”. Tanla’s service works in 160 countries and can use both operator billing and credit…
Bluetooth Low Energy: It’s here today, it works, it really does use almost no battery
Bluetooth Low Energy is a new open standard that the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is trying to make popular. It’s kind of hard without any chips on the market that support the new standard, but Texas Instruments is looking to fix that with the CC2540. It’s a complete system on chip that measures only…