Archive for September, 2010
September 30, 2010
Apple
For iPhone 5 may appear fivefinger media have reported that the second model iPad is likely to appear gestures using up to 5 fingers. However, it seems that they appear not only on the iPad, but on the iPhone.
Resource BGR has published a screenshot of the settings to test your iPhone 4. It is clear visible option “multi-tasking gestures» (multitasking gestures) and the bottom tip that with four or five fingers, you can access the various modes and functions.
Work with the iPhone 5, much less four five fingers can be somewhat problematic. In this regard, this hearing is consistent with the other – that the iPhone 5 will not press home the hardware. Logical consequence of getting rid of it would be to increase the display until the edges of the phone (why not?). Work 4 fingers on the 5-inch screen would be much more convenient.
September 24, 2010
Samsung
InsideWeb a presentation slide confirming the information on that at the Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona, Samsung has introduced a smartphone Galaxy S2. From left to post pictures of the current model Galaxy S, and the right – clear hint about the future evolution of line. Hardware Specifications for presentation pictures were not disclosed, although something about the smartphone is already known through unofficial sources.
Galaxy S2 will be equipped with a large 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus-display processor with a clock speed of 1.2 GHz, front camera, modem, HSPA + 3G. The operating system was selected as Android 2.3. Also mentions the possibility of setting NFC-chip.
MWC 2011 will take place this year from 14 to 17 February. But the presentation on the launch of Galaxy S2, will take place February 13 in the zero-day exhibition.
September 21, 2010
HTC
On Friday last week at HTC told that in the autumn quarter revenue increased 160%, total revenue for the end of 2010 totaled $ 9.55 billion, net income – $ 501.2 million in HTC attributed success to the fact that almost all new items 2010 were released on the Android.
Notable progress has been made in the U.S. market, which accounts for more than half (50.6%) of all revenues Taiwanese company. Total last year, Americans bought 24.6 million phone from HTC.
The HTC predicts that growth will continue in the coming year. In the first quarter of 2011 is planned to sell 8.5 million phones. The company plans to double production capacity at the main factory in Shanghai, which will then be made up to 2 million phones per month. This year HTC will release phones with HSPA + and LTE.
September 18, 2010
Apple
Apple moves the production of components for the iPhone 5 out of Japan on the power of Taiwan: a wing components Foxconn, Foxconn Electronics, as well as Foxlink, Gold Circuit Electronics and Epistar – new suppliers of critical components, such as iconic white headphones, a jack for them, a display panel and LED backlight. Americans, as claimed by the Toronto GSM News, sought “a more cost-effective sources”, after the strengthening of the Japanese yen resulted in an increase in the cost of parts.
Serious impediment to these measures are prohibitively Taiwanese patents, designed in Japan. However, Epistar has recently reached agreement on the provision of Japanese patents, Toyoda Gosei, which served as an important precedent.
In the current market situation, moving the production was a necessary step for the release of iPhone 5. At the time, had already increased the cost of producing the iPhone 4, to the same dual-core chipset from Qualcomm and other technical modernization of the fifth series of new smartphones are also, apparently, does not entail reducing their costs, which naturally will be reflected primarily in the wallets of ordinary shoppers.
September 14, 2010
Samsung
The Samsung has officially told about the four new Android-smartphone from a family of Galaxy. They are focused on lower and middle price segments. Heads the lineup Galaxy Ace: It has a relatively powerful 800-megahertz processor, 3.5-inch 480 × 320, 5-megapixel camera, GPS module and Wi-Fi, Android 2.2. Preinstalled Swype for fast text input.
Galaxy Gio got its name from the Italian word meaning “diamond.” He has a slightly smaller, 3.2-inch screen, but its resolution is the same as for Ace, 480 × 320.
Galaxy Fit – budget model with a 3.3-inch display, QVGA (most likely 400 × 240), 600-MHz processor and a 5-megapixel camera.
Galaxy Mini - the cheapest model of the family. She has a 3.1-inch screen and resolution QVGA. The Samsung Mini positioned for those who want to first try to Android. In a sense, this is the answer LG Optimus One.
September 11, 2010
News
Another piece of gossip about the mysterious phone branded Facebook. London Site City AM, without naming its sources, rather confidently said that the two telephone Facebook will be released in February, and producing them will be none other than HTC. Their presentation will be held at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with Mark Zuckerberg personally.
According to the resource, phones will be equipped with the emblem of Facebook and performed in his signature colors. HTC speak only as OEM-manufacturer. Work they will be a modified version of Android. Directly on the desktop will display personal messages, news and other modules Facebook.
On the Net have already heard rumors that Facebook are working on our own operating system. Facebook denied them, saying that plans to create its own OS they do not, however, work to improve the functionality of mobile is really under way. What does this mean the company did not say. Phone with a label on a modified Facebook Android fits into this formulation.
September 8, 2010
News, Nokia
It seems that things have come Nokia is getting worse and worse. Yesterday the company published financial statistics from which it follows that in the fourth quarter 2010 market share of Nokia phones on the market fell by 4% compared to the same period a year earlier, from 35% to 31%. The total number of handsets sold was 123.7 million.
In the smartphone segment of the case is even worse. Although the 4 th quarter Nokia increased its shipments by 36% to 23.8 million, the overall market grew by 73%, so the share of Nokia fell from 40% to 31% – almost a quarter. Back in the summer it was 38%. For comparison, Apple has increased the supply of the iPhone at 86%.
Over the past year, operating profit fell by a quarter of Nokia. Although the company is still profitable, its competitiveness leaves much to be desired.
Nokia CEO Steven Ilop (Stephen Elop) acknowledged that the situation is bad and needs immediate correction. “The industry has changed, and Nokia, too, must change quickly,” – he said.
September 5, 2010
Microsoft, News
Microsoft managed to ship the vendor’s cell phone about two million handsets with Windows Phone 7 from the end of December. It remains unclear just one thing: how many smartphones have been sold to end users.
Chief Product Manager Microsoft, Greg Sullivan (Greg Sullivan), noted that the WP7 is still at an early stage of the life cycle: “When we develop this phone , people will be stuned! One of the key indicators of success, we believe Windows Phone Users love. And 93 percent of customers satisfied or very satisfied with their choice, and this is a really big number. ”
Cellular operator AT & T refused to share sales, but insisted that they are steadily growing: “We believe that this reflects a bright future in WP7 intensely competing space.”
However, according to ABI analyst Kevin Burden (Kevin Burden), the above-mentioned number of shipments of smartphones is not talking about an indisputable success. “This number shows that the Windows Phone 7 having a hard time in such a crowd – said Burden agency Bloomberg, referring to the high competition in the niche of high-tech smartphones. – They (Microsoft) can build on this number? Yes. But they should show growth in the first quarter and compare it with the growth in the second. ”
September 2, 2010
Dell
BBC journalist Tim Weber (Tim Weber) wrote on Twitter, that Dell plans to release a few more smartphones running Windows Phone 7. On this he said to himself founder Michael Dell at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Dell himself, incidentally, uses two phones: the Android and Windows Phone. At the moment, Dell offers only one model on the platform of Microsoft, Venue Pro.
Dell also said that his company plans to issue plates based on the Android 3.0, and with approximately the same as the iPad, screen.
