Samsung is opening up its cheaper smartphones to third-party application developers with the launch of a new software platform it is calling Bada. The first phone running the software will go on sale during the first half of next year, with more products to follow later in the year, the company said on Tuesday.
Samsung Wants to Put Third-party Apps on Cheap Smartphones
November 10, 2009 by admin
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Garmin-Asus Launches First Windows Mobile Smartphone
August 19, 2009 by admin
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Garmin-Asus, the mobile phone joint venture between GPS device maker Garmin and electronics vendor Asustek Computer, launched its first smartphone with the Windows Mobile operating system on Wednesday in Taiwan.
The Nuvifone M20, which has a 2.8-inch touchscreen and runs Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, will be sold in by Taiwan’s largest phone company, Chunghwa Telecom, the companies said. The smartphones are also currently available in Hong Kong and will soon launch in Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand, with a debut in Europe later this year.
Touchscreens Dominate Smartphone Interfaces
August 18, 2009 by admin
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More than 15 million of the 38.1 million mobile phones sold during the second quarter used a touchscreen as the primary interface, according to market research company Canalys.
That’s much more than a year ago, when just 3.9 million of the 33.6 million phones sold in the second quarter of 2008 had touchscreens. The success of touchscreens is of course tightly coupled with the success of Apple’s iPhone, which has ignited user interest, said Mike Welch, vice president at Canalys. The number of smartphones that use a keyboard as its primary interface also increased, with 10.7 million sold in the quarter.
Photos: Dell’s first smartphone, the Mini 3i for the Chinese market, spotted in the wild
August 17, 2009 by admin
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Mr. Blurry Cam is in the hospital after beating beat up by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) employees for posting photos of the new iPhone before it was announced, but luckily his wife, Mrs. Image Stabilization, is taking his place. She is in China and has snapped some clear photos of Dell’s first entry into the smartphone. The Mini 3i is powered by the Chinese version of Android called oPhone and has a 3.5 inch capacitive touch screen with 360 x 640 resolution. It has a 3 megapixel camera, but unlike modern smartphones it lacks WiFi or 3G. Whether or not this device will come out in Europe and America is unknown at the current moment, but if I was a gambling man, I’d bet we’re going to see Android powered smartphones from Dell in the first half of 2010. Six more photos after the jump.
Wi-Fi Now a Smartphone Must-Have
August 17, 2009 by admin
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Though some operators are still not inclined to let Wi-Fi-equipped handsets into their networks, consumers nowadays are demanding the technology to be a standard part of smartphones, according to global consulting and advisory firm Ovum.
HTC rumored to be launching a non-smartphone this Fall
July 21, 2009 by admin
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Speaking of an unannounced handset coming down HTC’s product pipeline, there’s another rumor sourced from Solo Palmari that has HTC prepping their first non-smartphone (dumbphone, feature phone, whatever you wanna call it) for launch this coming Fall. According to Palmari, the lower-end HTC feature phone will have a touchscreen form factor similar to the HTC Viva and will be powered by a custom HTC-made operating system that takes cues from HTC’s TouchFLO 3D and Sense UIs.
Taiwan market: Gigabyte Communications launches S1200 smartphone
July 20, 2009 by admin
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Gigabyte Communications has launched its new Windows Mobile-based smartphone, the S1200, in the Taiwan market. The company also plans to launch the smartphone in other markets in Asia and Europe, according to company president Cheng Yao-jen.
The Dash smartphone will suit all of your messaging needs, but multimedia junkies will find more satisfaction elsewhere.
July 4, 2009 by admin
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Security researcher Charlie Miller has revealed that Apple is working on a patch for a security flaw he identified in the iPhone’s SMS implementation. The flaw can actually lead to arbitrary code execution, as he explained to Ars last month. Miller hasn’t yet detailed the flaw, citing an agreement with Apple, though he and partner Vincenzo Iozzo plan to detail their discovery later this month at the Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas.
Would you rather have a super smartphone or a new Netbook?
July 1, 2009 by admin
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Just last week, we got a peek at Nvidia’s new line of HD-video-playing processors in downtown Manhattan. One, the Ion, is a GPU that pairs with an Atom processor to give Netbooks gaming and HD-video-playing muscle, coming soon in Netbooks from Lenovo and Samsung.
The other, Tegra, is an all-in-one chip: it has an HD video processor, but it also has an ARM processor, making it an all-in-one computer on a chip that will be put on phone company-branded Netbooks toward the end of the year, according to an Nvidia representative.
Verizon Launches Ozone, Cheap Global Smartphone
June 27, 2009 by admin
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Verizon Wireless put Sprint and T-Mobile on notice Thursday with the release of an HTC smartphone that’s cheaper and more flexible than devices from its two competitors.Verizon’s HTC Ozone will sell for as little as $49, and features CDMA and GSM networks for global roaming.