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Sony Ericsson has just posted their Q4 2011 financial results and boy they’re not pretty. The company managed to lose 207 million Euros during the last three months of 2011, which translates to roughly $266 million. They shipped 9 million mobile phones, down 20% from the same quarter last year, and down 5% from Q3…
The ZTE Tania recently launched in the UK. It’s ZTE’s first Windows Phone and it features a 4.3 inch screen with the same 800 x 480 pixel resolution that all Windows Phones are required to have, 1 GHz processor from Qualcomm, 5 megapixel camera, no front facing camera, and that’s about it. There’s nothing really…
Microsoft owns quite a few patents, enough that they’re getting a check from 70% of the Android devices being sold in the United States. That’s right, for every 10 smartphones or tablets that get sold running Google’s operating system, Microsoft makes money on 7 of them. We don’t know the exact amount of money they’re…
Late last year, with less than two weeks to go until the calendar read 2012, AT&T announced that they were no longer interested in purchasing T-Mobile. Anyone with a hint of common sense knew that the deal was a bad idea since the moment it was announced back in March 2011. Thanks to the contract…
Samsung is a huge company that employs roughly 350,000 people. They got to their dominant position by investing in technology that would let them expand into new fields, their most successful bet being the memory chips that are inside everything from your mobile phone to the solid state drive in your new laptop. This year…
Whether you use your smartphone so much that you often end up walking into lamp poles because you’re so damn distracted, or you occasionally check your email throughout the day when you have some down time, you know that today’s ridiculously fast mobile computers that easily slide in the front pocket of your skinny jeans…
Lv Qianhao, Head of ZTE’s Handset Strategy, recently gave an interview to Retuers where he revealed some of the company’s ambitions for this year and beyond. First up is smartphones. The company predicted that they would ship 12 million of them in 2011, but they apparently “far exceeded” that goal. That’s a bit vague to…
Late last year ASUS announced the Transformer Prime, the first Android tablet to use NVIDIA’s new quad core Tegra 3 chip. They said it would ship before Christmas, and it did … but in numbers so small that you can’t really say that it sold in any significant volume. What’s holding things up? Some folks…
Sony Ericsson, soon to be just plain jane Sony, is the only major handset vendor to not support Microsoft’s new Windows Phone operating system. That’s really kind of shocking when you think about how many Windows Mobile devices Sony Ericsson shipped in the past, the most important of which being the X1 that came out…
Less than three months ago Nokia announced their first two Windows Phones, the Lumia 710 and the Lumia 800. The latter got most, if not all, of the attention from the media, but it’s the Lumia 710 that really earned a place in our hearts. For less than 300 Euros it offers an incredible value…