With Apple’s China-bound iPhone aspirations reportedly on the ropes (or not, depending on who you talk to), it makes sense for Apple to look to other Asian markets that might do well to launch an iPhone. Well, Apple could very well be looking to the Thailand as the next mobile market to get blessed with…
Palm, i-mate, and MWG go back to HTC for ODM handset orders
Ever since our favorite little ODM cut their manufacturing-strings and started hocking their wares under their own global brand, HTC has blossomed into the Windows Mobile smartphone manufacturer that we all knew it would be. Now that HTC has their own-branded line of mobile phones, their ODM business accounted for less than 10% of their…
LG and Harris announce new Mobile TV broadcast offering
Whilst we are on the topic of Mobile TV, I thought I would mention the latest variant, announced at CES. LG, along with Zenith and Harris Corporation, used CES to announce a new Mobile TV broadcast offering, called MPH (Mobile Pedestrian Handheld) – or MPH In-band Mobile DTV system, to give it it’s full name.…
Apple still in talks with China Mobile over iPhone?
What is this? One side of the story claims that negotiations are dead, the other side says that the “rumors” of iPhone-talk breakdowns are just not true. Steve Jobs told CNBC‘s Jim Goldman that Apple is still very interested in bringing the iPhone to China (of course they are, China’s population is huge!), and that…
Opera Software and Greystripe report initial numbers from their partnership; In a word – impressive!
Just recently the “world’s first ad-supported mobile games and applications distributor” Greystripe announced early results from its partnership with Opera, which involved addition of GameJump bookmark on Opera Mini’s customized browser homepage. And the results are… In the first month since the partnership launched, Opera users have downloaded over 1,600,000 games and applications! The price…
Clearwire to offer Google apps to WiMAX customers
With Sprint’s planned WiMAX network rollout, once-partner Clearwire is moving and shaking to bring more value to its WiMAX customer-base. Clearwire has just announced that they’ve partnered-up with Google to offer Google Talk, Gmail, and Google’s other web-based services to Clearwire WiMAX subscribers. After Sprint pulled out of the WiMAX network build-out deal with Clearwire,…
China Mobile and Apple break off iPhone negotiations
It looks like Apple’s plan to bring the iPhone to China’s 1 billion-strong population is on the ropes. Following previous rumors that China Mobile and Apple had fallen out of negotiations, China Mobile has reportedly called-off negotiations with Apple. China Mobile has been negotiating with Apple to bring the iPhone to Asia for the past…
New members join LiMo Foundation
Remember LiMo Foundation — a group formed by Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics and Vodafone — with an idea to deliver an open and globally consistent software platform based upon mobile Linux? Well, they’ve just scored new members. We knew about Purple Labs, but had no clue there were companies involved…
Brief: Motorola settles patent disputes wiht Metrologic Instruments
Motorola’s had enough troubles last year – it’s time that they turn over a new leaf and get back to the business of making profits from mobile phone sales. Moto has just settled their outstanding patent disputes with Metrologic Instruments, giving them a clean slate to launch those 20-30 new handsets in 2008. Metrologic and…
Apple files patent application to use iPhone to purchase “to-go” items – no more waiting in line
It seems Steve Jobs may be just as tired of waiting in long-lines at the local Starbucks as we are. Wouldn’t it be great if we could use our media player or cellphone to wirelessly order a cup of coffee ahead of time and simply stroll into the brick-and-mortor shop to pick up our cup…