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T-Mobile Announces All Phones Free on February 11th

February 8, 2012
Mobile phone carrier T-Mobile has just announced a special offering for all of its customers on February 11th. All of the company’s phones will be offered for free on that date, as part of the carrier’s promotion for the upcoming Valentine’s Day.In fact, the carrier has announced that ...

HTC promises change after admitting its bulky LTE phones have been weak so far

February 7, 2012
HTC on Monday reported that the company’s fourth quarter earnings missed analysts’ estimates. While speaking on the vendor’s earnings call, HTC’s chief financial officer said that the manufacturer ”dropped the ball” with its 2011 devices, SlashGear reports. Winston Yung admitted that the company’s LTE handsets were too thick, offered insufficient battery life and ...

LG P700 and LG P880 Android 4.0 Phones Leak Ahead of MWC 2012

February 6, 2012
LG has just lost third position as the most prolific handset maker, which is now owned by Apple. However, those who bet on LG’s total demise are most likely wrong, as the company prepares to announce several Ice Cream Sandwich devices at the Mobile World Congress 2012, which is set ...

Disney Android Phones Announced, Coming Through Docomo

February 2, 2012
Japanese carrier Docomo and Disney teamed up and announced some Android phones for the lovers of the Walt Disney universe. There are two models here, the Docomo F-08D, with a 4.3 inch 720p display and a dual core CPU. You can see the handset below and know that it will ...

NEC Cuts 10k Jobs, Predicts $1.3 Billion Annual Loss, Mostly Because of Phones

January 30, 2012
If NEC knew that they would lose $1.3 billion in a single year, they wouldn’t have entered the phone biz in the first place, since that’s what caused them the biggest losses. And now the complications come, as NEC announced that they will cut 10,000 jobs, and Bloomberg Businessweek is ...

Nokia’s Lumia Windows Phones Up for a Slow Start

January 26, 2012
Last year, Nokia made available its first handsets to run under Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system, namely the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710.Both of them landed on shelves in a small set of countries before the end of 2011, where they proved rather successful.However, it seems that their ...

Nokia reports huge €1 billion Q4 loss, says over 1 million Lumia phones sold

January 26, 2012
Nokia on Thursday reported earnings for the fourth quarter of 2011, revealing its third straight quarterly loss. The company saw revenue slide 21% year-over-year to €10 billion, and profit dropped from €884 million in the fourth quarter 2010 to a €954 million operating loss last quarter. Smartphone revenue dipped 38% compared to the ...

Sony Tapioca and Nypon Android Phones Revealed in Photos and Full Specs

January 26, 2012
Last week, Sony’s entire Android roadmap for the first three quarters of the year leaked via Sony India’s sales channels, along with full prices and release dates for the Indian market.   Although, no detai... (read more)

LG: More than 1 million Optimus LTE phones sold

January 26, 2012
LG announced on Wednesday that it has sold more than 1 million Optimus LTE handsets. A version of the device landed in the United States as the Nitro HD on AT&T, although it’s unclear if that phone is figured into the count. “The combination of LTE connectivity with LG’s True HD ...

‘Taptu’ Social Newsreader Arrives on Bada Phones

January 26, 2012
Taptu, a popular mobile newsreader, has just been launched in the Samsung Apps store. The application is now fully compatible with smartphones running bada 2.0 and higher.   Taptu for bada allows users to add new content from their favorite we... (read more)

Q4 iPhone sales reportedly topped all Android phones combined

January 25, 2012
Apple’s monster holiday quarter is the talk of the tech world, with the technology giant having just reported the second most profitable quarter ever among U.S. companies. The company’s $13.06 billion in fiscal first-quarter profit on revenue that surpassed $46 billion is staggering, and iPhone shipments that surpassed 37 million units played ...

Android 4.0 updates coming to Sony’s tablets and Xperia phones this spring

January 25, 2012
Sony will update the company’s Tablet S, Tablet P and Xperia line of smartphones to Android 4.0 in the spring, according to The Verge. Both tablets are already running Ice Cream Sandwich and are currently being tested behind the scenes. The company did not give a specific release date, however ...