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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. ”
June 30, 2010
Blackberry, News
An emerging new Research in Motion is positioned as a phone for the adherents of the traditional control through physical QWERTY-keyboard and touch touchpad. The device has received the latest, but still not left the system BlackBerry OS 6.0.
As can be seen on the videos, home screen is changed, the eight icons on it easily customizable for themselves. There is a search bar to find the messages and files in your phone. In general, the interface is not very different from a family of BlackBerry OS 5.x.
Modified media player, received a new interface that simplifies the fast-forward and search for other songs of that artist.
Clamshell BlackBerry 9670 is equipped with nesensornym screen, physical QWERTY-keyboard, touch touchpad. The phone has a basic HVGA-screen and an additional external screen, 5-megapixel camera with flash, 512 MB RAM, 4 GB of internal flash memory and card slot for microSD-memory. On board there are modules Wi-Fi 802.11n, Bluetooth, GPS.
June 28, 2010
LG, News
Let LG and is the third largest producer in the world phones after Nokia and Samsung is South Korean corporation can not boast an abundance of Android-smartphone in its portfolio. But soon everything will change.
In any case, LG plans are truly grand. With now only five Android-devices (LG GW620, LG Optimus GT540, LG Ally for Verizon Wireless, LG Optimus Q LU2300 and LG SU2300), the company hopes to release before the end of the year a further 20 devices running Google-platform.
At the beginning of 2009, LG’s phone business spun around Windows Mobile, but then had to change its views because of the aggressive offensive Android. Again, Microsoft has promised to develop a completely new environment – Windows Phone 7. As a result, LG, without waiting for the latter, made a bet on the prospects of Android.
Motorola, incidentally, recently shared similar plans to release two dozen Android-smartphone also this year.
June 22, 2010
News
Japanese Products Corporation has introduced a flash memory type NAND capacity 128 GB for installation in MP3-players and phones. Such three-dimensional chips built-in flash memory is a record for the industry.
Built on 32-nm process technology innovations include 16 layers, each of which is 8 GB. The resulting chips are the size of 17x22x1, 4 mm.
It is estimated that 128 GB should be enough to store 16.6 hours HD-video in 1080p-resolution. Test samples will go to partners and manufacturers in September, a full production cycle will begin in the fall. At the same time will be the start of the release of 64-GB chips built on the same technology.
June 19, 2010
News, Palm
After a long lull, the first news from the company’s Palm emerged today. I’m sure many of you remember the triumphal return by Palm at the mobile phone market with its own operating system and several devices at its base, which, incidentally, were quite successful. Many of you should remember and an equally rapid decline in financial performance, which led to its sale of the largest computer manufacturer, HP.
After this news from HP-Palm had not heard for a long time, but today the information vacuum was finally broken through the same application unit Palm, dealing with relations with developers. As the representative of this department, “new devices, and with them the new version WebOS, very soon become available.” Interestingly, it includes a list of these devices tablets, which may be the hallmark of the new alliance.
June 16, 2010
Blackberry, News
With the new patent BlackBerry smartphones will work with web pages faster. The new patent, registered company Research in Motion, describes a new scheme for the interaction of mobile browser with WEB-pages. To date, most browsers will work so that the drawing page on the device’s screen can be delayed until such time as the browser receives from the server, certain information which is necessary for further rendering pages.
According to RIM, this process can be significantly optimized, revealing only part of the page loading, while the information was not necessary at this time will be loaded progressively. In particular, it would eliminate such obvious flaws in the mobile WEB-surfing, when, for example, has been downloaded 50 of 51 kilobyte page, and the screen is still showing off a black screen.
June 10, 2010
HTC, News
Upcoming model HTC Aria, which should be the first in the lineup Android-phone, HTC, produced under the brand AT & T, may be renamed Liberty or the Intruder, as one might expect the two leaked to the press images. The first image taken from the Toronto GSM News, shows the almost complete copy of the previously presented model Aria, but under the name Liberty.
Both models, one way or another, will be built on the Android platform and equipped with a display with a resolution of 320 × 480 pixels, as shown by their user profiles.
According to another version, Aria could go on sale under the name of the Intruder, which also specify the price – $ 129. This version is less likely because the Liberty may be the second model based on Android from AT & T.
The names of Aria and Intruder officially anywhere yet never mentioned, but one can not exclude the fact that the same model can have two or more names depending on the region in which it is sold.
June 7, 2010
Apple, News
Resource Toronto GSM News had the opportunity to compare the screens of the new iPhone 4 with HTC EVO 4G and iPhone 3GS. The photos can be clearly seen, as far as iPhone screen is brighter and 4 contrast the two rivals. Also clearly visible as far as his actual higher resolution, or pixel density.
June 4, 2010
Motorola, News
According to the statement Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha (Sanjay Jha), the company plans to release its first smartphone based on 2-GHz processor by the end of this year.
According to another company representative, who wished to remain anonymous, the new unit will chip NVIDIA Tegra and gyroscope, will fully support Flash 10.1, as well as record and display video in HD-format.
We do not know how you can trust words of the anonymous, but the promised 2 GHz worth the wait.
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