When Apple hits the NAND flash memory market for some binge-shopping, the world pays attention. Apple is the NAND market, at least on this planet, and the iPhone-maker routinely affects global flash-memory supply with their massive orders. The latest such NAND flash-memory order to shortchange the rest of the world’s flash-memory buyers is Apple’s 50…
Flash Lite meet iPhone, iPhone meet Flash content
While still nothing close to a fully-acceptable Flash-based browsing experience, Thomas Joos has managed to bring Flash Lite to the iPhone. The porting of Flash Lite bodes well for the possibility of having real-deal Flash support on the iPhone in the future – whether Apple will officially support such an undertaking is unclear, perhaps a…
Motorola appoints new leadership for handset business
There really aren’t words to describe Motorola’s fall from glory. Perhaps words like spectacular, incredible, amazing were apt descriptions of Motorola’s once giant-footprint on the global wireless stage. But, today, those same words could be used to describe the company’s almost perplexing fall from up high. Motorola’s leadership has failed, since the days of Ed…
Telstra bringin iPhone 3G to Vodafone-averse Aussies
Competition is a good thing. It not only offers consumers the freedom to choose whatever service or product fits their needs, but it also sets the stage for price-wars in the on-going battle between companies to capture as much market share as possible. In the end, consumers win – more service options, better prices, tasty…
China Mobile iPhone negotiations again underway
The problem that the original iPhone had in cracking the potentially lucrative Chinese market was that it came leashed with a now-unreasonable revenue-sharing business model from Cupertino. China Mobile wasn’t too keen on sharing revenue on a handset that it couldn’t be guaranteed would be a China Mobile exclusive. Now, with the iPhone 3G following…
Most smartphone consumers looking to buy iPhone 3G, says report
We can’t wait for the iPhone 3G to hit market, and it seems most of the US smartphone consumer market is thinking along those same lines. RBC Capital Markets has just released the results of a study that indicates a majority of consumers in the market for a new smartphone are seriously considering the iPhone…
Sprint’s HTC Touch Diamond spotted in the wild
It looks like HTC’s famed Touch successor has been spotted prowling the urban jungle. Amidst the spattering of new touchscreen-toting handsets slated to launch in the next few months, the HTC Touch Diamond has been rumored to be sporting Sprint’s coloring. And, an intrepid mobile enthusiast in the field has managed to capture the first…
NEC looking to bring “Bubble Talk” voice SMS messages to carriers
There’s no denying that SMS text messaging has been a tremendous success. With hundreds of millions of SMS users worldwide, it makes sense that NEC is looking to cash in on what it hopes will be the next-generation of the short messaging service. NEC demonstrated their “Bubble Talk” technology at NXTcomm in Las Vegas and…
T-Mobile increases SMS text messaging rates – gives customers an out
Remember all the hoopla that was stirred up by T-Mobile’s increased SMS text message fees last year? Right, well it looks like the cost of sending a text message outside of a bundled texting plan will increase from $0.15 cents to a more profitable $0.20 cents. The pricing increase obviously won’t be hitting those with…
Sprint Airave femto-cell on sale on July 15?
Sprint’s been fooling around with their femto-cell offering for some time now, and we’re hearing that the No. 3 US carrier will be rolling out nationwide sales of the Airave signal booster on July 15. And to boost the credibility of Airave-sales rumors, the Airave has reportedly been spotted in the wild with retail packaging.…