Posts tagged: smartphones
No More Beats Audio Headphones for Future HTC Smartphones
For whatever reason HTC decided against bundling Beats Audio headphones with some of its most treasured devices launched on the market.Perhaps the Taiwanese company thinks that the this accessory is not the selling point it hoped for when bundling them with some its product.In a recent interview HTC product execut... ...
Half of all U.S. mobile subscribers now own smartphones
Market research firm Nielsen on Thursday announced that as of February 2012, about half of all mobile subscribers in the United States own a smartphone. In the same month last year, only 36% of U.S. mobile subscribers owned smartphones. Almost half of all smartphones, or 48%, are powered by Google’s Android ...
HTC to Start Shipping HTC One Series Smartphones from April 2
HTC has just unveiled the HTC One X and One V smartphones in Taiwan and promised to start shipments from April 2. Three local carriers in Taiwan, Chunghwa Telecom, Far EasTone Telecommunications and Taiwan Mobile are the ones that will be selling the new handsets.Pre-sales for the One X have ...
LG Promises a Dozen Smartphones for India This Year
LG Electronics is set to push a large number of smartphones to the market in India this year, the latest reports on the matter point out. The handset vendor has just announced the release of no less than 12 new smartphones running under Google’s Android operating system ...
RIM Offers Devs BlackBerry 10 Prototype Smartphones in May
Research In Motion is trying to keep developers close now more than ever. The company has just confirmed it will offer them BlackBerry 10 prototype smartphones at its May event in Orlando.It's unclear if all attendees at the event will get the device or just a fair number of lucky ...
RIM to hand out BlackBerry 10 prototype smartphones in May
Research In Motion will give prototype BlackBerry 10 smartphones to as many as 2,000 developers who attend the BlackBerry 10 Jam conference that runs alongside the annual BlackBerry World expo in early May. The handsets will be prototypes that are running “a modified version of the PlayBook OS which will ...
NPD: One third of all smartphones sold in Q4 had 4G connectivity
Smartphones with 4G connectivity grew from 6% in the fourth quarter of 2010 to 35% in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to a report from The NPD Group. HSPA+ “4G” accounted for 22% sales, however, leaving LTE and WiMAX technologies with a much less impressive share of the smartphone ...
Android Accounts for 48.6% Subscriber Smartphones in the US
Google’s Android operating system managed to grab some more market share in the United States in the past several months, and established itself as the leading mobile platform in the country.According to the latest data from comScore, Android was accounting for 48.6 percent of smartphone subscribers at the ...
Future Samsung smartphones to feature flexible displays
Late last month, Samsung confirmed that it will start mass production of flexible displays this year. The first set of screens will come off the line in the second or third quarter of 2012, with the second batch will be built in the second quarter of 2013. The South Korean manufacturer ...
Huawei Joins Tizen Association, New Linux-Based Smartphones Coming Soon
Chinese handset maker Huawei has recently joined Tizen Association Board of Directors. In addition, a new beta version of the Tizen operating system source code and SDK are now available for download.This is an important step forward for both Tizen Association and Linux Foundation, as the organizations are tryi... (read ...
Pew: Smartphones overtake feature phones among adults in the U.S.
Pew Research Center on Thursday released a report stating smartphone owners now outnumber feature phone owners in the United States. Nearly half of adults in the U.S. own a smartphone as of February 2012, the firm said, up from 35% last May. 53% of cell phone owners indicated that their handset is a ...