Tag: smartphones

Car AV Radio Sales Climb

Many customers are now turning to simpler audio/video head units, without navigation, and choosing to get their navigation...

Chip Shortages Continue to Delay Smartphones

The smartphone is not recession-proof, it turns out and its not because there’s any drop in the insatiable...

Smartphones Still Dogged by Shortages

From the iPhone to HTC’s EVO and Incredible, smartphones aren’t coming fast enough to match demand. The iPhone...

Nokia Struggles in Smartphones

Nokia, the cellphone giant, is still struggling to win share in the smartphone arena in a post iPhone...

Android 2.2 Due in Phones in June

Google took the wraps of its new Android 2.2 (Froyo--short for Frozen Yogurt) smartphone OS which will convert...

Android Steals #2 Slot from iPhone

Android is hot, and it’s now powering a lot of smartphones. So, it comes as no surprise that...

Intel Offers Atom Processor for Smartphones, Tablets

Intel has begun producing a new Atom processor for smartphones and tablet PCs allowing faster web page loading...

Can AT&T Help Palm?

Palm’s “Pre Plus” and “Pixi Plus” smartphones will start selling through AT&T (joining Verizon and Sprint), but will...

A Quarter of Phones to have WiFi in 2012

Wi-Fi continues to infiltrate not just smartphones, but feature cellphones, as hotspots proliferate in the home and office....

Mobile Apps Soar Past Forecasts

Demand for mobile apps on smartphones, etc. is climbing so fast that the Yankee Group had to revise...

First 4G WiMax Phone Due By June

Sprint will launch the first 4G WiMax mobile phone during the first half of this year, creating a...

TomTom: US PNDs to Fall in 2011

TomTom offered more insight into the challenging portable GPS market Thursday admitting that industry-wide U.S.  sales could start...

TomTom Ups GPS Share to 30%

TomTom reported it swung back to profitability in the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2009, claiming it saw...

Free TbT Navi on Win Phone 7?

Since turn-by-turn navigation is rapidly becoming a free give away on smartphones from Google and Nokia, will Microsoft...

Nokia, Intel Join Up in Smartphones

Nokia and Intel joined forces at Mobile World Congress this week to create yet another smartphone platform. Called...

More GPS for Smartphones

Two more signs that navigation is becoming an every-day feature on leading smartphones were seen at Mobile World...

Smartphones Gained 40% in Q4

Few will be shocked to learn that smartphone shipments worldwide surged almost 40 percent in the fourth quarter...

GPS is Now Free on Nokia Phones

  It looks like the cards are stacking up against standalone GPS devices from makers such as Garmin...