Apr

25

Samsung pushes its market share to 16%

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April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment

 
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. shipped over 46 million phones in Q1 to solidify itself as the world’s second best mobile phone manufacturer. The 33% increase in sales over Q1 2007, has pushed its market share to 16%.
All this while Motorola tumbled to a 9.4% share in the No. 3 spot. Motorola has yet to come […]

Apr

14

Windows Mobile 6.1

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April 14, 2008 | 1 Comment

Windows newest version of their mobile operating system is coming out of the gates charging with both AT&T’s Tilt and the Samsung Blackjack II as the first handhelds available with Windows Mobile 6.1. The Motorola Q9c, HTC Touch, HTC Mogul and the Samsung Ace are soon to follow. This continues the trend of always having […]

Mar

27

Motorola breaks up with self

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March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Motorola’s handset struggles have been public for quite awhile and today a press release confirmed that the Mobile Phone Division will be separated from the rest of its operations. This will create two separate public companies and is an attempt at turning around its 45% decrease in stock price over the past year.
The downward spiral […]

Feb

12

Microsoft purchases Danger

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February 12, 2008 | 3 Comments

In a move that shocked virtually everyone, the Redmond based software company purchased the mobile phone company Danger who’s lone product is the SideKick. Some speculate that Microsoft is trying to compete with the likes of Apple and Google by purchasing a ready made market of young mobile phone users.
However, many pieces of this puzzle […]

Feb

1

The Next Generation of Mobile Phones

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February 1, 2008 | 1 Comment

With the rapid advancements of mobile phone technology in the past few years, some wonder what is in store for us in the immediate future. I for one don’t want to wait and certainly don’t want to hear about vaporware, like the flying cars we were all promised as kids. So lets take a rational […]

Jan

30

Symbian, the open operating system

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January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Nokia 77

Jan

28

Microsoft Windows Mobile 6

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January 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment

This week we will be focusing on the software that runs your mobile phone. This is an often overlooked aspect of the mobile industry and has just recently been brought to light to the average consumer with the new iPhone, its software updates and all their implications, both good and bad.
Today lets take a look […]

Jan

25

2007 4Q Financial Reports

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January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment

In a stunning announcement AT&T Mobile added a U.S. Wireless Company record of 2.7 million new activations in the 4th quarter of 2007, this contributed to them eclipsing the 70 million subscriber mark. Profits soared to $3.14 billion, a 62% increase from 2006, ARPU went over $50, and data revenues increased over 50%. Of course […]

Aug

9

The American Dream…in Europe

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August 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Many recent developments in the mobile phone industry have had one thing in common and that is Europe, a place we left some 300 years ago and have largely forgot about except when they need help stopping Germany from from taking over and making everyone wear really tight leather pants.
Case in point the BlackBerry 8830 […]

Aug

3

Nokia must be butter cause they are on a roll

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August 3, 2007 | 4 Comments

Nokia is leading the way in the mobile phone industry with innovation and massive profitability and its paying off huge for their stock holders. Lets break the recently announced numbers down and yes there is math involved so get out that number 2 pencil folks…just kidding.
Net Sales of 12.6 Billion (That’s Billion with a B […]

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