Despite the fact that not only are current LTE chips too power-hungry and huge to fit into the iPhone without huge design and performance trade-offs, and the fact that the vast majority of the country has no 4G coverage, a lot of Apple’s Android...HTC Admits Apple Was Right, LTE Android Phones Are A Total Joke
Despite the fact that not only are current LTE chips too power-hungry and huge to fit into the iPhone without huge design and performance trade-offs, and the fact that the vast majority of the country has no 4G coverage, a lot of Apple’s Android...Android still 1st choice among virgin smartphone buyers
The iPhone may have passed over Android in total U.S. smartphone sales, but Google’s platform still has one key advantage: it’s attracting more mobile data newbies. According to the NPD Group, 57 percent of first-time smartphone buyers last quarter chose Android handsets.
Android’s original standard bearer — HTC — falls from grace
Squeezed by Apple and Samsung, it had a bad quarter and expects the next to be worse
There was a time when HTC and Android were practically synonymous.
The Taiwanese manufacturer built the first commercially available Android phone -- the HTC Dream -- in 2008, and two years later collaborated with Google (GOOG) to build the Nexus...
With 8.7% market share, Apple has 75% of cell phone profits
Between them, Samsung and Apple are sucking up 91% of the winnings
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Asymco's Horace Dediu on Friday updated his quarterly review of mobile phone profits, and the news for everybody but Apple (AAPL) just gets worse.
As the iPhone's share of the market in terms of units shipped has grown from 3% in second quarter...
Apple seeks to broaden HTC import ban
While Apple won a partial victory in December in its patent battles with rival smartphone maker HTC, the scope of the ruling was both fairly tame and narrow enough for HTC to develop a workaround a mere two days after the ruling. According to FOSS Pat...
RIM reportedly in talks to sell to Samsung, HTC, others (updated)
Research in Motion may be getting shopped around to other tech companies including Samsung or looking to license its OS, according to recent reports. Citing its "trusted sources," Boy Genius Report says that RIM may be looking ...
Can iPhone Rivals Mimic Apple Success Just By Cutting Models?
If you need another reason why iPhone rivals just don’t get it, there’s word four of the largest smartphone makers plan to introduce fewer models in a bid to replicate Apple’s success. Ah, if it were only so simple. According to the Taiwan-based industry...In last-ditch effort to prove patent portfolio, Kodak sues Apple and HTC (again)
Apple and HTC are once again being accused of patent infringement, this time related to how the iPhone, iPad, and iPod transmit digital images. Eastman Kodak announced on Tuesday that it had filed lawsuits against...
Kodak Sues Apple And HTC For Violating Digital Imaging Patents
Eastman Kodak has announced its plans to sue Apple and HTC for violating several of its patents relating to digital imaging. The once-profitable camera company claims that Apple’s iOS devices and HTC’s smartphones infringe on Kodak patents for transmitting images digitally and between devices....HTC releases tool to unlock bootloaders on its devices
HTC has released a tool to unlock the bootloader in some of its Android devices, the company announced today. According to a posting on HTCDev, HTC will allow the bootloader to be unlocked on every phone it releases going...
Apple slowly gaining patents to fight its war of attrition with Android
Apple was recently awarded a patent related to multitouch input processing, which the Internet immediately characterized as a "key multitouch patent" that Apple could use to target Android handset makers. While the patent does de...
HTC Already Has A Workaround Finished To Sidestep Apple Patent Infringement [Report]
The International Trade Commission (ITC) recently placed an import ban on several HTC devices in the United States for violating an Apple design patent. The ban wasn’t set to take place until April of 2012, but Apple’s win would effectively end HTC’s short-term business...
