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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…
Sprint is no longer using the Carrier IQ software and has decided to remove it from its handsets. Earlier this month, Sprint released an update that removed Carrier IQ from its EVO 3D handset and will eventually roll out a similar update to its other Android phones. According to Spokeswoman Stephanie Vinage, Sprint has “decided to remove…
LetsTalk.com and YouMail struck a deal that will benefit each of the company’s services — an even exchange, if you will. LetsTalk.com, will soon begin preloading the YouMail visual voicemail service on select Android and BlackBerry devices. In return, the new YouMail online store for phones and accessories will be powered by LetsTalk.com. Both parties…
The Motorola Xoom got some early Ice Cream Sandwich love last week but Motorola has officially announced that the WiFi version of the tablet is getting Android 4.0.3 right now. It will be rolling out in waves over the next few weeks, so check your notification on the device. The Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich…
It was another banner quarter for smartphones, as the latest Nielsen numbers said that over 60 percent of those who bought a phone within the last three months chose a smartphone over a feature phone and most of these users chose an Android or iPhone. Android still led the U.S. market for the latest period…
Recently, we wrote about the progress the folks over at CyanogenMod were making on baked ROMs for the extinct HP TouchPad. Today the super hackers released CM9 for the TouchPad, but in alpha form. This is awesome for owners who are stuck with a tablet that’s no longer receiving any major firmware updates for its…
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…
Now that it has the new DROID RAZR MAXX, it’s only natural Verizon will slash the price of the original DROID RAZR. And that’s exactly what the carrier did, offering the thin-smartphone for $199.99 with a two-year contract. At the moment, only the black version is available, with the white and purple one set to…
This isn’t the first time we’re writing about the LG Optimus Pad LTE — it was leaked roughly a month ago — but this time we have the official press release with all the details. The LTE version of LG’s tablet comes with the same-sized (as the original Optimus Pad) 8.9-inch screen which is now…
After South Korea and Sweden, the pink version of the Samsung Galaxy S II is heading to the UK. The device is available for pre-ordering from two retailers, Very.co.uk and Phones 4U. The first one is selling the unlocked unit for whopping 499 GBP (about $760), saying that orders will be shipped “within 7 days.”…