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Sony Ericsson no longer exists. Sony officially purchased Ericsson’s share of the joint venture last month and the company has big plans to make mobile one of their core businesses, at least that’s what Kazuo Hirai says (pictured above, right). So what operating system will the company bet their future on? Google’s Android is the…
Now that Nokia’s decided to make all their phones in Asia in order to try and save some money, why not also go with cheaper Asian components? According to DigiTimes, who has a mixed track record, but have proved themselves reliable numerous times in the past, Nokia is considering going with either MediaTek or MStar…
Of the many responsibilities that were thrust upon me during my 14 month stint at Nokia, my favorite was writing an internal newsletter that was read by thousands of employees. I’d spend all day reading the news, picking out the four or five most important stories, and then explaining why said news items were important…
Four months ago we filed a report saying LG Display and AU Optronics sent Apple 7.85 inch LCD panels so that they could start working on a smaller iPad. Two months ago we said that sources in Taiwan are essentially confirming the 7.85 inch form factor exists and that said smaller iPad is due to…
Back in April 2010 Nokia announced a cheap ($125) feature phone with a QWERTY keyboard called the C3. There was nothing particularly noteworthy about it, save for the fact that it didn’t come with 3G connectivity, instead opting to come with WiFi. Over a year later, in October 2011, Nokia announced the Asha 200 and…
Nokia’s Lumia 800, as it exists today, can be purchased in three different colors: pink, blue, and black. Recently Nokia announced a white version, and we’ve been reporting on rumors of a yellow version for the past two months. That’s five colors in total. Apparently Nokia doesn’t think that’s enough though. A video produced by…
Chinese handset vendor Huawei is trying to make a name for themselves in today’s hypercompetitive smartphone market. Similar to how HTC started out by making devices for operators who would then slap their logo on the front of HTC’s hardware, Huawei is trying to become more than just another handset ODM. They want to do…
MediaTek isn’t exactly a household name, but they’re a huge player in the mobile processor space. Like many other chip vendors, they don’t build their own chips, instead they design them and then have factories pump them out. This is an industry standard practice that everyone (Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, NVIDIA) does. Now MediaTek chips aren’t…
Apple shipped a hair over 40 million iPads during 2011. The company plans to increase that number by as much as 75% to 70 million units according to a report from ChinaTimes, which says Apple made an order for between 65 million and 70 million LCD panels from LG and Samsung. Said panels are said…
Last month at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Intel got up on stage and said that they’ve signed two hardware partners to use their new Medfield smartphone platform. What made us actually care about this announcement instead of just rolling our eyes, because Intel has been promising to enter the smartphone market every…