Advertisements In a more aggressive push to become the part of the growing entry-level Android device market, Texas Instruments has announced a new family of low cost Cortex-A8 ARM chips. Dubbed as Sitara AM335x, these processors will sell for a price starting $5.
Advertisements Asustek expects to sell over 1.8 million Android tablets by the end of this year. Company has already shipped 1.2 million tablet units at the end of third quarter and is hoping that holiday demand will add 600,000 more units to that number.
Advertisements Samsung is planning to release smartphones with flexible displays in 2012, followed by tablets and other devices. “The flexible display, we are looking to introduce sometime in 2012, hopefully the earlier part,” said company spokesman Robert Yi during an earnings call earlier today. “The application probably will start from the handset side.” Samsung will […]
Advertisements Ending the speculations, Sony has officially announced that it will acquire Ericsson’s share in SE. According to today’s announcement, Sony Ericsson will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony and Ericsson will get EUR 1.05 billion cash for its stake. This deal will also give Sony a big patent cross-licensing agreement and ownership of five […]
Advertisements ODM Compal is the latest entry in Microsoft’s Android Licensing Program With Compal as its latest victim, Microsoft has proudly announced that it now collects license fees from companies that account for over half of all Android devices shipments. Some of these are big names like HTC, Samsung and Acer. On the ODM front […]
Advertisements The impact of recent patent litigation involving Apple has clearly left its mark on Samsung. Keeping that in mind, Samsung seems to have carefully built the new Nexus phone to avoid any patent disputes. Considering the recent Patent deal with Microsoft, Apple is the only other major patent problem for Samsung and by avoiding […]
Advertisements After Google confirmed that Nexus S will be getting Android 4.0 update, HTC came forward to announce that it is currently looking at Ice Cream Sandwich release and will detail its upgrade plans in the days to come.
Advertisements HTC has announced today that it will acquire Inquisitive Minds, the company which designs PC, Smartphone, and Tablet UI for children under the Zoodles brand, for US$13 million.