LG puts Android tablet on hold, says Froyo not suitable
LG had originally planned to launch an Android-based tablet device this year, but has decided to wait for a future version of the mobile operating system that is better suited for tablets. The company's decision further strengthe...
How Apple is sucking the profit out of the mobile phone business
The iPhone's growing share of the spoils could spell bad news for Google's partners On Tuesday we posted a pair of pie charts that showed Apple (AAPL) selling 3% of the world's mobile phones in the first half of 2010 and taking 39% of the industry's profits. (See Apple's outrageous share of the mobile industry's...
iPhone tops J.D. Power's customer satisfaction survey for 4th year in a row
Here's one we're sure to hear about at the next Apple (AAPL) press event. For the fourth time in a row, the iPhone has come in first in J.D. Power and Associates' semi-annual smartphone customer satisfaction survey with a score of 800 out of 1,000 -- well ahead of its competitors. If it weren't for...
Pie chart: Apple's outrageous share of the mobile industry's profits
Cupertino is raking in the cash as its competitors struggle to post any profit at all Canaccord Genuity initiated coverage of Apple (AAPL) Tuesday with a "buy" rating and a price target of $356 per share. In the long, laudatory accompanying note by T. Michael Walkley, their new Apple specialist, the two paragraphs that jumped...
Is the iPad driving down chip prices?
Samsung warns of a memory glut from weakening PC sales as consumers turn to tablets File this under unintended consequences. On Tuesday, according to Reuters, the world's largest manufacturer of memory chips warned that DRAM prices may fall in the next two quarters due to weakening demand for notebook and desktop computers. "If the PC...
NTP sues smartphone giants over wireless e-mail patents
Patent holding company NTP, most famous for successfully suing BlackBerry maker RIM for violating its patents for "wireless e-mail," is now targeting some of the most successful smartphone hardware and software makers for patent inf...
Samsung and LG to launch Android-based tablets this year
Apple's successful strategy of moving a mobile OS up to a touchscreen tablet is proving popular as manufacturers look to produce tablets based on Google's Android OS. Both LG and Samsung plan to launch such products by the end...
Mobile market up, smartphones up, Android and iPhone way up
The mobile phone market is up big for the first quarter of 2010 after sales declines during 2009, according to the latest sales figures released by market research firm Gartner....
HTC lawsuit came after warning by Apple to handset makers
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Apple talks tough to handset makers
The HTC lawsuit capped blunt talks that have reportedly shaken their faith in Google
Oppenheimer's Yair Reiner issued a behind-the-scenes report Tuesday that sheds a lot of light on the patent suits Apple (AAPL) filed last week against HTC, the Taiwanese smartphone maker.
Citing "industry checks," Reiner writes that:
"Starting in January, Apple launched a series of C-Level...
iPhone and Android biggest winners in mobile market in 2009
Though the overall mobile market is slowing—sales are down about one percent for 2009 year-over-year—a slight fourth quarter sales jump balanced the dips during the rest of the year. The good news...
Brief: Nielsen: iPhone most popular handset in US for most of 2009
Apple's iPhone was the most popular headset in the US for the majority of 2009, according to recently published data from Nielsen, owning four percent of an "embedded base of all subscribers" from January to October. The iPhone just squeaked past the BlackBerry 8300 series (3.7 percent), but handily beat...
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