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Friday, May 24, 2013
Nokia on Thursday filed a new complaint with the International Trade Commission (ITC) against HTC, claiming the Taiwanese smartphone company was was shifting responsibility for infringement to its suppliers.
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Executives from Samsung and Corning have been reportedly met in Korea and the industry is speculating that they have discussed ways to solidify their existing joint businesses and to expand their cooperation in next generation materials.
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Thursday, May 23, 2013
Samsung Electronics said Thursday that global sales of its Galaxy S4 smartphones have surpassed the 10 million mark since its release in late April.
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LG plans to design its own SoCs for its mobile devices by licensing ARM?s CPU and GPU technologies, a move that could help the company better compete against its rival Samsung electronics.
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Apple has applied to add the Galaxy S4 to a U.S. lawsuit that was filed in February 2012 against Samsung Electronics, claiming that the S4 infringes on 5 Apple patents.
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Nokia has updated its Here Maps on Windows Phone devices that integrates its augmented reality LiveSight location app.
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Samsung Electronics said Wednesday that it would buy a 10 percent stake in Pantech Corp., South Korea's third-largest handset maker.
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
NVIDIA's mobile processor for mainstream smartphones - Tegra 4i, which includes an integrated NVIDIA i500 LTE modem, chewed through 150Mbps of LTE data in a demo this week at CTIA 2013 in Las Vegas.
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Opera has revamped the Opera browser for Android devices, with the final version to focus on giving users a fast and easy way to discover new content on their Android phones.
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Sprint Nextel has received from SoftBank a waiver of various provisions of the merger agreement between Sprint and SoftBank.
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Japan Display (JDI) has developed a high pixel density
5.2-inch (diagonal) organic light emitting diode (OLED)
display prototype with full high-definition display
resolution.
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Toshiba will start applying its second generation 19
nanometer process technology to mass production of
2-bit-per-cell 64 gigabit NAND memory chips later this
month.
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Monday, May 20, 2013
Marvell today announced its new PXA1088 LTE, the first mass market quad-core 5-mode Category 4 LTE single-chip solution supporting LTE TDD and FDD, High Speed Packet Access Plus (HSPA+), Time Division High Speed Packet Access Plus (TD-HSPA+) and Enhanced Data for GSM Environment (EDGE).
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Jolla has announced its first smartphone based on the Sailfish open-source operating system and coming with a 4.5-inch screen.
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Samsung today introduced the Samsung Smart App Challenge
2013, a global app competition aimed at finding new
applications utilizing group communication function.
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Japan Display has developed a 5.0-inch Full-HD (1,080 x
1,920 pixels) TFT LCD module with JDI's proprietary
integrated touch functionality "Pixel Eyes".
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Friday, May 17, 2013
The security technical implementation guide for mobile devices using Apple?s iOS6 operating system has been approved, Defense Information Systems Agency officials announced on Friday.
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Lenovo announced the general availability of K900 smartphone with Intel Inside.
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As part of Intel?s ongoing effort to attract the Android ecosystem and enter the smartphone market, the company today released a new tool environment for developers of native Android applications.
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Nokia will soon start rolling out the Nokia Xpress Now, a
web app that gathers information from Nokia's Xpress
Browser and presents it to Nokia Asha owners.
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Thursday, May 16, 2013
The Android mobile system kept its lead in the global smartphone market over Apple in early 2013, while Windows took into third place, an IDC survey showed Thursday.
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Samsung captured an impressive 95 percent share of all Android smartphone profits, which reached US$5 billion in total during the first quarter of 2013.
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Today at Google I/O, Google announced that in the coming months Android will include native support for Bluetooth Smart Ready and Bluetooth Smart devices.
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
The Android mobile operating system grabbed three out of four smartphones sold in the world in the first quarter of 2013, Gartner said on Tuesday.
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LG Electronics' Optimus Vu: - known as Intuition in the United States - is the first commercialized smartphone in the U.S. on the Verizon Wireless Network to offer Privacy and Business (P&B) Virtualization.
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Microsoft today provided some details coming in this summer's GDR2 update to the Windows Phone 8 operating system.
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Onstage at the BlackBerry Live conference in Orlando, Thorsten Heins, President and CEO, BlackBerry, announced the
BlackBerry Q5 smartphone, running BlackBerry 10. In addition, an update to BlackBerry 10 software has been released with new features.
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Nokia today took the wraps off the new Lumia 925 phone, which has an aluminium frame that functions as an antenna, and is lighter and thinner than the Lumia 920.
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Monday, May 13, 2013
Sony Mobile today introduced the new Xperia ZR featuring water-resistance for capturing photos and Full HD videos underwater.
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Samsung Electronics announced that it has successfully developed the first adaptive array transceiver technology operating in the millimeter-wave Ka bands for 4G cellular communications.
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Friday, May 10, 2013
The highly anticipated Nokia Lumia 928, Nokia's new Windows 8 smartphone, is coming exclusively for Verizon Wireless.
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Total smart mobile device (notebook, tablet and smart phone) shipments for the Q1 hit 308.7 million units, according to Canalys? latest worldwide estimates.
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AT&T is launching a prepaid cellphone service - Aio Wireless -
offering wireless service to customers interested in unlimited talk, text and data plans without an annual contract.
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Thursday, May 09, 2013
Huawei said Thursday it would the W1, its first Windows Phone 8 smartphone for US users later this month.
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Amazon jas been long rumored to be developing its own smartphone, but this time the rumor mill goes a step further and has the company to be working on a screen that allows people to see 3D images without glasses.
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On the outside, the U.S. and South Korean versions of Samsung Electronics? Galaxy S4 smartphone look alike. But on the inside, there are major differences in key components?including the apps processor, the wireless subsystem and the user interface.
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Following the demonstration of its Long Term Evolution Time Division Duplexing (LTE TDD) service at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2013, LG Electronics has started offering LTE TDD capable smartphones worldwide.
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Nokia today unveiled the first of a new family of Asha smartphones with the introduction of the Nokia Asha 501. This is the first handset to feature the Asha patform, a new software for Asha devices designed to bring the functions of cheaper phones closer to higher-end ones.
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Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Nokia Chief Executive Stephen Elop said the company would remain focused on using Microsoft's Windows Phone software to compete with its smartphone rivals.
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Monday, May 06, 2013
Hulu has released Hulu Plus for Windows Phone 8, now available in the Windows Phone Store.
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The European Commission (EC) said it believed Motorola Mobility, a unit of Google, was abusing its market position by seeking and enforcing an injunction against Apple in Germany over patents essential to mobile phone standards.
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Samsung today announced the Samsung GALAXY Core, a smartphone designed to offer users dual core processing power, Dual SIM technology and a wealth of smart features.
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BlackBerry seems to be ready to release an entry-level, colorful phone sometime between July and September this year.
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Sunday, May 05, 2013
Apple has gained some ground in the US smartphone market, lowering the gap with handsets powered by Google's Android software.
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Saturday, May 04, 2013
LG Electronics is said to be the maker of Google's next Android smartphone, the Nexus 5.
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Friday, May 03, 2013
Rumors have Apple to release a low-cost vesion of its iPhone, following the trend of Samsung and HTC, which both schedule to release "mini" versions of their flagship smartphones.
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The Pentagon on Thursday cleared BlackBerry and Samsung mobile devices for use on Defense Department networks.
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Thursday, May 02, 2013
HTC will reportedly offer a mini version of its flagship HTC One smartphone in the following months, following Samsung's lead with a smaller versions of its Galaxy S4 and handset.
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MediaTek Inc. today announced its next-generation, dual-core smartphone platform -- the MT6572 -- a dual-core SoC with integrated Wi-Fi, FM, GPS and Bluetooth functions targeted at the entry segment.
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LG has completed the development of its own application processor and ported its mass production design asset (IP) to 28 nano High-K Metal Gate (HKMG) process of Taiwanese foundry, TSMC.
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Wednesday, May 01, 2013
AT&T and LG Electronics bring the 5.5-inch, full HD LG Optimus G Pro smartphone in the U.S, available for $199.99 with a two-year service agreement beginning May 10.
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Samsung's third generation of the Galaxy Note phablet will reportedly have a 5.9-inch full HD screen and 32BG of internal storage.
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Verizon will invest $100 million in a solar and fuel-cell energy project that will help power 19 of its facilities in seven states across the U.S., the company announced today.
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Samsung Electronics today announced the first production of
ultra-high-speed four gigabit (Gb) low power double data
rate 3 (LPDDR3) mobile DRAM, which is being produced at a 20
nanometer (nm) class process node.
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Monday, April 29, 2013
Sprint Nextel today announced that it had received from SoftBank Corp. a waiver of various provisions of the merger agreement between Sprint and SoftBank.
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LG on Monday announced yet a new variation of its Optimus series of smartphones. The Optimus GK is a new Android flagship smartphone bas ed on the the previously-introduced Optimus G Pro that is designed for the Japanese market.
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Google is bringing its Google Now technology to the iPhone, where it will compete with Apple's Siri.
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Samsung will reportedly launch a water-resistant version of the Galaxy S4 smartphone.
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Sunday, April 28, 2013
Following its unveiling at the 2013 Mobile World Congress, the Optimus F5 - the first device from LG's newest Optimus F Series ? will make its world debut starting in Europe on April 29.
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Friday, April 26, 2013
LG has confirmed plans to bring its expertise in flexible displays to an actual phone model, expected to be released before the end of 2014.
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The Samsung Galaxy S4 and the first teardowns of the smartphone shows that Qualcomm's chips are found everywhere onto the device's motherboard, at least in the LTE version coming in the U.S.
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Worldwide smartphones sales surpassed feature phone sales in the first quarter of 2013 for the first time, according to IDC.
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
The new Nokia Lumia 521, a T-Mobile exclusive, will dedut during HSN's Innovation Weekend event this Saturday and comes bundled with a car charger and screen protector.
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The debut of Nokia's new flagship smartphone, the Lumia 928, is as close as next month and Nokia has started sending out media invitations for a "special Lumia event" in London on May 14th.
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Samsung Electronics celebrated the launch of the Samsung Experience Shop today with the grand opening of their newest location in New York?s Union Square Best Buy store.
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Sprint and T-Mobile are delaying the rollout of the sSamsung Galaxy 4 smartphone saying that Samung is facing inventory problems.
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At a special meeting in Richardson, Texas, the stockholders of MetroPCS today approved the agreement with Deutsche Telekom to combine T-Mobile USA with their company.
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The number of paying smartphone and tablet gamers will surpass the number of paying GOH gamers worldwide in 2013 and rise at a rapid rate through 2017, IDC forecasts.
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ZTE has joined the list of companies that have signed patent license agreements with Microsoft.
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The next Sony software rollout for Xperia P, Xperia go and Xperia Edual is starting this week and will ramp up over this month and next.
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Nokia today unveiled the latest device in its Asha family, designed to offer users more social experiences at an affordable price.
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Samsung Electronics has licensed the Face Detection and Face Tracking software developed by DigitalOptics (DOC), in order to use it in Samsung Galaxy S 4 smartphones.
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Nokia is said to strike a deal with Verizon for its new flagship smartphone, the Lumia 928.
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Spain-based Geeksphone has started selling the first Firefox OS smartphones, the $119 Keon and the $149-Peak.
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ITC, a U.S. trade panel, on Monday ruled that Apple did not violate a Google-owned Motorola patent to make the iPhones.=
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Monday, April 22, 2013
Nokia won a court injunction that would prevent HTC from using microphone components made by STMicroelectronics NV in HTC One phones.
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Egyptian telecom operator Etisalat Misr today announced the Etisalat E-20 smartphone with Intel Inside, the first in the Middle East and North Africa region.
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Yahoo has updated its iPhone app to include the technology developed by Summly, a startup the company acquired last month.
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Shipments of sub-US$250 low-cost smartphones will grow from 259 million in 2013 to 788 million in 2018, according to recent market data released by ABI Research.
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Sprint Nextel on Monday announced it has formed a Special Committee of independent directors to review and evaluate the proposal received from DISH with its financial and legal advisors.
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Besides the rumors of a refreshed Nexus 7 tablet, Google may also add LTE/4G mobile internet to its existing flagship NExus 4 handset.
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KINGMAX, has recently released the lightweight power bank, a battery charger built with a 8000mAh battery and dual USB charging interfaces for mobile devices.
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Friday, April 19, 2013
The HTC One will hit three major US carriers soon and T-Mobile just announced its pricing.
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Thursday, April 18, 2013
ARCHOS today announced its first line of Google certified
smartphones, featuring slim designs, dual SIM cards, IPS
screens and powered by Qualcomm CPUs.
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Yahoo is trying to make popular services more accessible to smartphone and tablet users with the release of the Yahoo Mail Apps for iPad and Android tablets and the the Yahoo Weather App for iPhone, iPod and iPod touch.
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Nokia's sales of smartphones running Windows Phone continued to grow in the first quarter, although the demand for its basic phones was low in Q1. The company's net loss shrank year on year, even its overall revenue declined.
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Five months after AT&T, Google and Starbucks announced their support for the Power Matters Alliance (PMA), HTC, LG and Samsung have joined the alliance.
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Samsung is reportedly considering purchasing memory chips from rival SK Hynix for future products including its new flagship Galaxy S smartphone, a company executive said on Thursday.
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South Korean handset maker Pantech Corp. on Thursday
unveiled its latest smartphone "Vega Iron," with thinner
(2.4mm) bezel and an endless metal ring.
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Google is updating search on mobile devices this week.
The company added two new features, both aimed at getting users on the run to the information they want more quickly.
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Samsung announced that the Galaxy S4 will be available from seven US carriers and seven retailers beginning this month.
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt has confirmed the existence of a Motorola-built Google X Phone, speaking at the D:Dive into Mobile conference in New York.
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Speaking at a conference in New York on Tuesday, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said that there will be more than a billion smartphones running the Android software within the next six to nine months.
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LG has send out invitations for a New York City press conference slated for Wednesday, May 1.
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Facebook has updated its iPhone and iPad applications to let
people keep using its chat feature even when thay are doing
stuff on Facebook, like checking their News Feed.
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Mozilla's CEO has confirmed that the smartphones running on
the open-source Firefoc OS operating system will be landing
in Brazil, Colombia, Hungary, Mexico, Montenegro, Poland,
Serbia, Spain, and Venezuela this summer.
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Monday, April 15, 2013
The latest Samsung flagship phone seems to be scheduled to
arrive in the US by AT&T later on April 26 - more than a
month before Verizon.
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U.S. satellite television provider Dish Network Corp offered to buy Sprint Nextel Corp for $25.5 billion in cash and stock, a move that could thwart the proposed acquisition of Sprint by Japan's SoftBank Corp.
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Friday, April 12, 2013
The HTC First, the first smartphone to come with the Facebook Home suite of apps pre-installed, officially arrives in US stores this weekend.
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