Manufacturers
LG handset business posts profit, breaks losing streak
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LG’s handset business has finally reported profit after six quarters of loss. According to earnings announcement today, company handset business posted 9.9 billion won ($8.8 million) in operating profit in October-December quarter.
HTC to focus on select devices this year
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HTC UK chief has told a publication that company is going to launch a limited number of devices this year and will focus on a few Hero devices. HTC had flooded the market with several smartphones last year and it did not turn out too well for the company thus it is changing the strategy now.
HTC Sense 4.0 previewed
Read the rest of this entry »HTC is expected to unveil a new version of its Sense UI at Mobile World Congress along with its smartphones Edge and Ville. Dubbed as 4.0, Folks over Pocketnow got a chance to play with an early build and have shared their impressions.
Motorola shipped 1 million tablets in 2011
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Motorola Mobility has announced its fourth quarter and full-financial year results today. Company revealed the number of shipped smartphones and tablets in these results and only 1 million tablets were shipped by the company in the last year. On the smartphone front, company shipped 18.7 million smartphones.
Apples sues Samsung for ‘Slide to Unlock’ in Galaxy Nexus
Since the day Apple was granted the Slide-to-unlock patent, everyone was expecting Apple to bring an onslaught of patent infringement lawsuits on Android device manufacturer because the most common unlock mechanisms used by Android devices fall under the broad slide-to-unlock patent awarded to Apple.
After suing Samsung and Motorola for slide-to-unlock in two different German courts, company has filed a new complaint against Galaxy Nexus for the same patent yesterday in Germany. According to Apple, Samsung infringes its slide-to-unlock patent in Galaxy Nexus. Read the rest of this entry »
Notion Ink announces Adam II, to feature TI OMAP processor
Notion Ink's first tablet - Adam
Notion Ink has announced that it has partnered with Texas Instruments for its next generation tablet. Dubbed as Adam II, this tablet will come with OMAP44xx processor, PowerVR SGX5xx GPU along with some other components from TI itself. Read the rest of this entry »
Sony Ericsson reports 207 million euro loss in Q4’11
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Sony Ericsson has announced its fourth quarter and full year 2011 results just now and there is a huge loss on paper for the company, which is soon going to become Sony. According to the issued press release, Sony Ericsson accrued 207 million euro loss in last quarter, while the full year loss was 247 million euro.
Sony’s 2012 Android line-up leaked with prices
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Sony (still Sony Ericsson on-paper) has planned some great Android action this year. We had already seen two launches at CES from the company in the form of Xperia Ion and Xperia S and more are coming at Mobile World Congress next month. But, we can tell you about company’s second/three quarter (2012) line-up right now, along with their expected India market prices.
Sprint begins removing Carrier IQ from HTC phones
HTC has confirmed to The Verge that it is working with Sprint to release maintenance updates that will remove Carrier IQ from its phones. Reportedly the first phone to get this update is HTC Evo 3D, which recently got a bug fix update.
There is no clear time-frame for the update roll-out for other phones. Read the rest of this entry »
ZTE targets China, US to bolster profits
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Chinese telecommunication equipment manufacturer ZTE has told Reuters that it sees United States and China as the key-markets for its new smartphone focused strategy.
