29 December 2010 9:00 AM
Apps, apps, apps! Everywhere you look, more apps. Both Android and Windows Phone 7 have reportedly crossed a couple of round number milestones recently, giving us a decent idea of the maturity gap between the two. Microsoft's brand new OS with an old OS' name has rounded the 5,000 available apps...
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28 December 2010 2:50 PM
The Japanese consumer electronics group, Sony, is planning to invest $1.2 billion in image sensors in the next financial year. The company announced Monday that they plan to expand their production of advanced image sensors currently used in digital cameras and mobile phones. Sony currently...
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28 December 2010 11:00 AM
Now that we know Motorola will unveil their Honeycomb tablet at CES, it appears that Samsung will rush out a competing product to try and keep pace in the tablet wars. We have heard little about Samsung’s CES plans, but a report from the Korea Times thinks that Samsung will reveal updated...
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28 December 2010 5:00 AM
Actual transaction numbers for the Nikon Coolpix S8000 for Mon 27th 2010 compiled as of Tuesday 28th 2010. Verifiable transaction volumes increased by 2.50% for Mon December 27th 2010. Two hundred twenty-two online vendors reported trade figures for Mon December 27th 2010.
Web shops in Austria...
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27 December 2010 2:40 PM
According to Chinese language newspaper Economic Daily News, the leading handset producer in terms of profits in 2010 was Apple. The Cupertino based manufacturer took a 40% slice of the worldwide handset profit. Nokia shipped the most handsets and Samsung posted the highest revenue.
In terms of...
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27 December 2010 11:00 AM
As we reported earlier this month, a version of the HTC HD7 passed through the FCC with the 850MHz and 1900MHz bands suitable for AT&T 3G. Well AT&T happens to share the same 3G spectrum as three major Canadian carriers -- Rogers, Bell, and Telus -- and that very model PD29130 from the FCC...
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26 December 2010 8:30 PM
So maybe we simply have Xoom on the brain, but we just watched Motorola's teaser video for its upcoming Honeycomb-powered Android tablet (embedded, bottom), and we could swear that the company hid the expected branding in a few scenes. Specifically, we noticed what look like a whole lot of X's O's...
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26 December 2010 6:00 PM
The launch of the next iPad is presumably getting closer and more information starts coming in about the second version of Apple's tablet. This time, an anonymous Chinese source tipped Japanese Mac blog MacOtakara that the new iPad will be even smaller by 3mm, with a flatter back and smaller...
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23 December 2010 9:00 AM
Nokia C5-03 can be called a smartphone which satisfies your budget too. Why? This device comes with a 600MHz processor which runs the outdated Symbian OS faster than any of the competitors. This is the fastest processor for any Nokia S60 device. At a minimum price range this phone will give you the...
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23 December 2010 7:00 AM
Taoyuan, Taiwan-based HTC Corp. has begun teasing a 4G smartphone under wraps on its website. “The first to 4G, again,” boasts the company. HTC goes on to indicate that more will be revealed on January 6 of 2011. It’s highly likely that either HTC, Verizon Wireless, or both will...
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23 December 2010 5:00 AM
LG has just applied for European Union trademark protection for three Optimus brandings: Optimus Magnum, Optimus Jump, and Optimus Hush. Besides the original "Optimus" mark, these are the only three filings LG has ever submitted with that word in this particular database; in the US, the...
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22 December 2010 4:30 PM
Technology as a whole is moving fast, but the mobile phone industry is moving twice that pace. This made it even more compelling for us to look through all the phones launched this year as it comes to an end and bring you only the best. We found it extremely hard to pinpoint just several out of the...
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22 December 2010 7:00 AM
The Galaxy S has become the first smartphone to sell two million units in Korea. Samsung Electronics said Sunday the gadget hit the milestone within just six months of its release here on June 25.
In comparison, Apple's iPhone series has sold 1.8 million units here since its debut in November...
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22 December 2010 3:00 AM
Sony Ericsson has recently filed for European Union trademarks on four Xperia brandings, including one -- "Xperia Play" -- that sounds like it could be the retail name of the company's not-so-secret gaming smartphone. We'd initially heard that the so-called PlayStation phone would hit...
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21 December 2010 4:10 PM
Panasonic’s Lumix DMC-ZS7 has been ranked one of the best compact digital cameras in 2010, by TopTenReviews.com.
The ZS7 is a 12.1MP camera with 25mm wide-angle lens and 12x optical zoom. It can record 720p HD video using AVC HD Lite and there is built-in GPS for geo-tagging shots. The full...
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