Archive for January, 2009

Sony Ericsson’s W715 Walkman phone’s pledges allegiance to Vodafone

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

If there’s one company really looking out for discerning mobile phone users or all breeds of mobile phone customers, it’s Sony Ericsson. So, the battle between Nokia and Sony Ericsson rages on with the announcement of the Sony Ericsson W715 slider Walkman phone, which (probably hasn’t gone unnoticed) looks and sounds remarkably like the W705 [...]

Sony Ericsson T303

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Sony-Ericsson T303 is a GSM phone. Sony-Ericsson T303, a Slider mobile comes with a great list of features. It is elegant and a great buy.
Sony Ericsson T303 is a cute and compact handset to go along with you. A slider, Sony Ericsson T303 has been engrossed with a mirrored screen, metal finishing and chrome coating. [...]

IPhone takes 1.1% of the mobile phone market

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Some Macworld readers may remember Steve Jobs claiming that Apple had an initial goal of getting one percent of the global mobile phone market by then end of 2008.
While just one percent may seem like a modest goal, the huge size of the global mobile phone market made this statement ambitious. Much of the Mac [...]

Mobile Phone SIMable Unlocking Chip Sold in 10,000 Units

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

The UK company 24/7 Mobile Solutions released in April last year an unlocking chip called SIMable, which users can attach to their SIM cards in order to make the mobile phone believe it has been unlocked. The company announced today that almost 70 percent of the online sales of the SIMable were to the DACHS [...]

Boost Mobile 2009 device line-up leaks, confirms Motorola i465

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Details of Boost Mobile’s upcoming 2009 handset lineup have leaked, confirming that the carrier will be offering the “distinctive” Motorola i465 QWERTY messaging-phone. It’s one of at least four new devices, including a candybar, a clamshell and a slider form-factor, with several of the handsets looking to be supplied by Motorola. Read more
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T-Mobile Reports 32.8 Million Subscribers

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

With the introduction of mobile broadband services and the release of the first Android-powered handset, T-Mobile continued its steady pace of subscriber growth.
The company finished 2008 with about 32.8 million customers, adding more than 4 million new subscribers. About 2.9 million of these came from organic growth, and 1.1 million came from the $2.4 billion [...]

VERTU to Launch New Mobile Services in Japan

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Vertu, a company that makes handcrafted mobile phones for the luxury market, reportedly has announced its intention to open what it’s calling an “exclusive club” in Japan.
The club will give subscribers access to mobile services, such as “Club VERTU (News - Alert),” which includes a members-only concierge.
VERTU inked a deal with Nokia Siemens to support [...]

Sony Ericsson S001 with huge AMOLED display & 8.1MP autofocus camera

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Sony Ericsson might not be having such financial troubles if they deigned to release handsets like the SE S001 in Europe and the US. Freshly announced for Japanese network KDDI, the Sony Ericsson S001 has a huge 3.3-inch 480 x 854 AMOLED display, an 8.1-megapixel camera with autofocus, flash and smile-shutter control, mobile TV, [...]

T-Mobile Reports 32.8 Million Subscribers

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

With the introduction of mobile broadband services and the release of the first Android-powered handset, T-Mobile continued its steady pace of subscriber growth.
The company finished 2008 with about 32.8 million customers, adding more than 4 million new subscribers. About 2.9 million of these came from organic growth, and 1.1 million came from the $2.4 billion [...]

China restructures mobile market ready for 3G force

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

When Shi Rui Huan was led through the back entrance of a China Mobile store on the first day of April last year, he had no idea that he was about to be at the center of one of the most significant events in the history of telecommunications in China.
And he also had no idea [...]

The economy and your next mobile phone

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

On Wednesday, Qualcomm — like every other company that can afford two sheets of paper for a quarterly earnings report — said that though economic times are bad, the company is well-positioned to be even stronger when things look up.
But in an era of complicated supply chains and tricky R&D cycles, what does that even [...]

Nokia’s New Sleeper Cell Phones

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Nokia today announced three attractive new phones–and they couldn’t be more boring. While most phone makers are trying to wow consumers with yet another iPhone killer or some super trendy device based on Google’s Android platform, Nokia is launching middle-of-the-pack phones with features we’ve seen before.
Nokia reported disappointing earnings results last week, and the company [...]