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HTC To Make First Android Handset
News HTC, the mobile-handset manufacturer best known for its Windows Mobile smartphones, is set to become the first vendor to release a handset using Google's Linux-based software stack, Android. Sources close to Google confirmed that HTC will be the...
[November 6, 2007, 11:08]
Motorola Denies Cash Crisis Ahead Of Financial Results
News Siemens, the fourth-largest mobile phone maker, announced on Tuesday that it was eliminating 2,000 jobs, or a quarter of its workforce in handset manufacturer, from three German production sites. Like all its rival handset manufacturers, Motorola...
[April 10, 2001, 10:05]
What Is The Threat: Truth About Cell Phone Security
Blog This quest for the next great phone has resulted in blinding developments at a handset manufacturer’s level which has unfortunately left a gaping hole in mobile security. Added to the rapid manufacturer developments and lack of regard for handset...
[August 6, 2007, 14:21]
Symbian Seals Key Taiwan Deal
News Another Taiwanese manufacturer, High Tech Computer, recently became the first to offer a handset based on Microsoft's Smartphone 2002 software. BenQ said its first Symbian handset will be available by the third quarter, subject to further agreement...
[February 12, 2003, 14:59]
HTC Unveils The Touch Diamond
News The Touch Diamond will be the first HTC handset to be launched with all five major UK operators — Orange, T-Mobile, O2, Vodafone and 3. The Touch Diamond includes an enhanced weather-forecast application — the original of which HTC says was a big...
[May 6, 2008, 18:02]
Markets Braced For Nokia Gloom
News Handset sales, which were buoyant last year, are below earlier expectations, and there are serious concerns that many markets are reaching saturation point. Nokia is late with GPRS, and won't have a GPRS-enabled handset on the market until the end...
[July 19, 2001, 11:02]
Nokia Vs Orange
Blog A leaked memo has exposed the major rift between the handset manufacturer Nokia and the operators - Orange in particular - that supply most of its customer base. The whole argument surrounds the recently announced N81 handset, which is the first...
[August 30, 2007, 9:32]
Nokia Picks Camera Phone Boom
News Nokia plans to significantly expand the number of its cellphones that have cameras -- as part of the Finnish handset maker's new strategy to focus more on "imaging" products. Like most other handset makers, Nokia is designing phones to take...
[October 17, 2003, 15:10]
Nokia To Push 'walkie Talkie' Handset
Talkback Both Vodafone and Orange in the UK were looking to launch the service but due to lack of handset / manufacturer support withdrew the product. Ericsson developed GSM Pro along with a handset over 4 years ago targeting the construction industry.
[November 14, 2003, 8:03]
Motorola Denies Planning Sagem Takeover
News Motorola has denied it is considering a bid for the loss-making handset division of rival manufacturer Sagem. Garriques had reportedly said that Motorola had a "serious interest" in purchasing Sagem's handset unit, and that it was "an option in a...
[November 21, 2006, 16:20]
Sony Ericsson Goes Windows Mobile
News The handset also utilises HSDPA (high-speed uplink) and HSUPA (high-speed downlink) connectivity. Sony Ericsson has become the latest major manufacturer to use the Windows Mobile operating system in its handsets.
[February 11, 2008, 10:30]
Second Open Linux Handset Unveiled
News A second reprogrammable open Linux handset has been unveiled, just months after Trolltech introduced its Greenphone to the developer community. The idea — as with Trolltech's Greenphone, announced in August — is to provide developers with a fully...
[November 9, 2006, 9:24]
Vodafone Announces Own-brand 3G Handset
News The operator has inked a five-year deal with manufacturer Huawei to produce a 3G Vodafone-branded handset for launch this September in Europe. Vodafone's chief executive, Arun Sarin, hit out earlier this week at handset prices, saying the €50 (£30...
[February 16, 2006, 9:30]
OpenMoko Open-sources Handset Hardware
News OpenMoko spun off from Taiwanese manufacturer FIC, and is aiming to get its handset picked up in niches that aren't addressed by other platforms. OpenMoko, developer of open-source Linux mobile phones, has open-sourced the casing of its handset...
[March 4, 2008, 16:36]
Mobile Giants Bailing Out Of Hardware
News On Thursday, Ericsson announced that Flextronics, a Singapore-based contract manufacturer, will take over its handset plants in Brazil, Malaysia, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. Qualcomm was the first major player to get out of...
[January 29, 2001, 9:06]
Motorola's Symbian Phone Could Give 3G A Lift
News The mobile phone manufacturer announced the launch of the A920 handset on Thursday. The first Motorola handset to run on the Symbian operating system could give a much-needed boost to Britain's budding 3G market.
[August 29, 2003, 14:25]
Nokia's Flat Q1 Warning Prompts Fears
News Fears are growing that the mobile sector is facing a slowdown following the announcement by Nokia Tuesday, that it has lowered expectations for handset sales growth in 2001. Earlier this month, Nokia warned it had sold fewer than expected handsets...
[January 31, 2001, 7:03]
Nokia And Vodafone Team Up On Web Services
News When Nokia first launched Ovi, some industry watchers questioned whether the handset manufacturer would be able to sell mobile internet services and avoid risking the ire of its operator customers, who are themselves trying to exploit such...
[November 8, 2007, 9:17]
Security Takes Top Billing At CeBIT
News The technology, which has been used to secure Ericsson's flagship GPRS handset, the R520, was developed in cooperation with smartcard manufacturer Gemplus and AU-Systems, the software company behind Ericsson's WAP browser.
[March 23, 2001, 8:25]
Greenpeace Clashes With Apple Over Toxic Waste
News Nokia and Dell came out top in the ranking, with the Finnish handset manufacturer leading the way on eliminating toxic chemicals by stopping its use of PVC in 2005. Lenovo and Apple faired less well, with the Chinese PC manufacturer ranked last.
[August 29, 2006, 13:00]
