Tagged: Mobile Phones
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Smartphone sales not accelerating fast enough to stem decline of feature phones News
14.05.2013 The rise of smartphones is not happening fast enough to stem the decline of feature phones in key markets, with users not upgrading or replacing old devices at a pace the mobile...Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Digital Media, Consumer Tech -
Delay of HTC One smartphone costs HTC dearly – reports a mere US$2.8m profit News
02.05.2013 Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has published unaudited results which present a damning picture – instead of basking in the success of sales of one of its best smartphones yet,...Categories: Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Games/Entertainment, Financial Results, Digital Media, Consumer Tech -
More smartphones sold in Q1 than feature phones - IDC News
26.04.2013 Smartphones have overtaken feature phones for the first time. According to IDC, more than half the mobile phones shipped worldwide in the first quarter (51.6pc) were smartphones.Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Hardware, Consumer Tech, Communications -
Nokia ships 5.6m Lumia Windows Phone devices during Q1 News
18.04.2013 Finnish phone maker Nokia achieved underlying operating profitability in the first quarter but sales were down 20pc year on year from €7.3bn to €5.8bn. During the quarter, the... -
Denis O’Brien assembles Digicel consortium to pursue Myanmar mobile licence News
04.04.2013 Denis O’Brien has assembled a consortium of investors that includes US-Hungarian billionaire businessman and philantropist George Soros and Myanmar business leader Serge Pun to... -
PC sales plummet worldwide as tablets and smartphones roar ahead News
04.04.2013 As a possible indication of the declining fortunes of the personal computer as we know it, Gartner has grouped PCs in with tablets, smartphones and other connected devices to...Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Operating Systems, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Computers, AppsTags: App, Tablet Computers, Windows 8, Smartphones, Mobile Phones, PCs, Mac OS X, iOS, Apple, Android, Google, Operating Systems -
World’s first mobile phone call happened 40 years ago today News
03.04.2013 Forty years ago today, on 3 April 1973, the first call from a handheld mobile phone was made by its inventor Dr Martin Cooper, then-head of Motorola’s communications division.Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Networking & Telecoms, Hardware, Consumer Tech, Communications -
61pc of tablet computer owners have shared their PIN - survey News
28.02.2013 One-third of mobile phone or tablet owners have failed to protect their devices with a PIN or password, and most tablet owners have even shared their PIN with someone else, a... -
Gadgets of the month: January 2013 News
31.01.2013 We take a look back at some of the biggest gadget news from January and look ahead at what’s to come in 2013, from Mobile World Congress and beyond. -
Global sales of mobile phones down 1.7pc in 2012 – Gartner News
13.02.2013 Mobile phone sales dipped in 2012, though smartphone sales increased by almost 40pc in the fourth quarter – and more than half of this market is split between Apple and Samsung,... -
The rise of smartphone recycling (infographic) News
09.02.2013 The number of mobile phones in circulation is enormous, and a new infographic takes a look at how they impact the environment and how recycling the devices can help keep our... -
Apple is top mobile phone vendor in US for the first time News
01.02.2013 Figures from the fourth quarter of 2012 put Apple in pole position as the largest mobile phone vendor in the US, according to Strategy Analytics. -
Nokia reports €439m operating profit as strategy begins to work News
24.01.2013 Nokia has posted its first operating profit in more than a year as its smartphone strategy is finally beginning to bear fruit. The Finnish smartphone maker reported... -
Is 2013 the year of the phablet? IHS forecast says shipments will more than double News
17.01.2013 ‘Phablet’ is quick becoming the moniker for smartphones with large displays of 5 inches or more (think somewhere between a phone and a tablet). Having seen a number of these... -
A turnaround in Nokia’s fortunes – mobile maker sold 4.4m Lumia smartphones in Q4 News
11.01.2013 In what Nokia's CEO describes as having been a solid quarter, the Finnish mobile phone giant published preliminary Q4 results that indicate its smartphone strategy and the Nokia...Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Networking & Telecoms, Networking, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware -
UCC researchers in €1.6m EU project to develop low-powered chips News
09.01.2013 Researchers from University College Cork (UCC) are involved in a consortium that has been awarded €1.6m under the EU’s FP7 programme to develop new low-powered and... -
Worldwide IT spending to hit US$3.7trn this year - Gartner News
04.01.2013 Worldwide IT spending will reach US$3.7trn in 2013, a 4.2pc increase from 2012 spending of US$3.6trn, the latest Gartner Worldwide IT Spending Forecast suggests. -
Happy bday 2U: SMS turns 20 News
03.12.2012 Today marks 20 years since the birth of short message service, or SMS as we better know it. With a simple “Merry Christmas” sent on 3 December 1992, software programmer Neil...Categories: Communications, Mobile -
Sales of mobile phones drop while smartphone sales increase - Gartner News
14.11.2012 Worldwide sales of mobile phones have dropped in the third quarter of 2012 while sales of smartphones around the globe have risen, Gartner, Inc, reported. -
The presidential battle in the mobile app world (infographic) News
02.11.2012 Americans will be voting for their new president on Tuesday, and a new infographic looks at how voters are consuming and sharing information on their mobile phones that pertains...