We recently conducted a poll on our website to understand if consumers want to buy the new BlackBerry curve. A whopping 62% consumers want to buy the new Curve phone (results below). It seems that BlackBerry hit the correct chord by unveiling the 9220 in India. The consumers here love this brand and their fan … Continue reading
Research in Motion (RIM) today globally launched its new BlackBerry Curve 9220 phone from New Delhi, India. The phone is priced at INR 10,990 (~$ 213). It will be available through retail stores from Thursday onward. At the event, RIM executives quoted that the device will be made available in other countries “in the coming … Continue reading
Smartphones and tablets, the two hottest categories of consumer devices right now, are dominated by ARM processor designs, so when the company speaks up about its product roadmap, we’re inclined to listen in close. The next generation of ARM system-on-chip has been dubbed Cortex-A15 and was expected to ship in 2013, but that’s now been … Continue reading
We’ve been waiting for this one, the first indicator of the mythical Verizon iPhone‘s impact on the fortunes of the formerly exclusive Applephone carrier, AT&T. As it turns out, business is rolling along as usual over on the blue team, where AT&T spent Q1 2011 activating a total of 3.6 million iPhones, a nice round million … Continue reading
Mobile broadband will be worth a staggering $223 billion globally within four years, according to figures from research firm Ovum. The company said the total market for mobile data services would more than double, from just over $100bn last year, driven by increasing sales of smartphones and tablets. However, while overall revenues might be on … Continue reading
Samsung Electronics, South Korea’s largest electronics manufacturer, will be releasing a smartphone that boasts performance levels matching desktop PCs. This phone will feature a two gigahertz (Ghz) dual core CPU (core processing unit), which will give it data processing capacities of 4Ghz. Samsung is also considering selling the CPU units separately. “We are planning to … Continue reading
Telecom equipment vendor Nokia Siemens Networks announced the launch of its Smart WLAN Connectivity Solution that can offload mobile broadband traffic to Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) without any break in service. The new solution can provide faster data connections and preserve the mobile network capacity. Smart WLAN Connectivity eliminates the need to manually switch a device’s data … Continue reading
In case you had any lingering doubt that the smartphone is the new personal computer, just take a glance at IDC‘s new global smartphone sales numbers for the fourth quarter of 2010 where we learn that some 100.9 million units were pushed in the three-month period — up a whopping 87.9 percent year over year. … Continue reading
Forget the pinch of salt, the 3D-enabled LG Optimus 3D is official. It’s at the teaser announcement stage right now, the full reveal won’t happen until February 14 at the MWC when LG will takes us “into the new dimension”. Last Tuesday we started piecing things together and were convinced that LG is readying a 3D-capable … Continue reading
