Despite facing stiff competition from veteran local players such as Samsung and LG, KT is still very optimistic about their newest offering, the iPhone, as they expect to sell around 100,000 to 500,000 units once its releases in Korea. They still haven’t announced their official pricing for it, but analysts predicts that the Korea iPhone [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, November 21, 2009
Taking the iPhone to a whole new level of functionality, Dynamic Controls has just announced they’ll be releasing an iPhone app soon that will allow disabled individuals the freedom to control their power wheelchairs via the iPhone or iPod Touch. It works via Bluetooth and as you can see with the screenshots above, is a [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 20, 2009
Motorola may not have been very competitive in the past couple of years, but they did manage to come out with a hit product this year in the form of the Motorola Droid which I personally believe is the best smartphone for 2009. With a decently-sized 3.7-inch touchscreen, 5-megapixel AF camera with dual-LED flash, WiFi, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Steve Jobs’ baby is set to make another conquest. South Korea is one of the two most advanced countries in the world when it comes to mobility and connectivity. Will the iPhone make an impact there? The iPhone will be distributed by KT, though SK Telecoms will be following suit. SK serves 50% of Korean [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 16, 2009
You know a story’s big if it’s made it to CNN, and that’s exactly what the iPhone jailbreak front has managed to do. The article mainly centers on the history of iphone jailbreaking and unlocking with George Hultz, or better known as master Geohot in the iPhone jailbreak community, as the focal character. It talks [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 16, 2009
According to this rather enlightening CNET article, netbooks are not to be compared with laptops. Rather, think of netbooks as smartphone with a bigger screen and a QWERTY keypad you can actually speed type on. … students in K through 12 are accustomed to iPhone-size screens and performance. So moving to a Netbook is a big [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 13, 2009
It’s not surprising to see Nokia dominating the global smartphone market scene, but what is interesting to see is how both RIM and Apple posted huge growth this past quarter. Aside from HTC, they are the only two other phone makers who managed to improve on their performance last year and by a significant margin at [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 12, 2009
The Motorola Droid may be making the iPhone sweat in the U.S., but in China OPhone is the name Apple will be most wary about. So when Moto has recently announced its liking for OPhone, the mobile world better listen. Introducing the Motorola MT710, the company’s first OPhone mobile. In case you haven’t heard, OPhone [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 12, 2009
Whatever you say about finger-tap input on a mobile device, no one can deny that styluses are more efficient for scribbling words. Leaked documents from Apple suggest that pen-input is forthcoming on an Apple device. Perhaps this is on the iPhone and iPod Touch, perhaps on the iPhone 4G. Even more exciting, an Apple Tablet? [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Frankly, I’m surprised this is news at all. The summary from Strategy Analytics: Apple became the world’s most profitable handset vendor in Q3 2009. Fueled by strong volumes, high wholesale prices and tight cost controls, the PC vendor has successfully broken into the mobile phone market in just two years. What can Nokia do to regain [...]
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