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...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 [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Bloomberg is reporting that the Motorola Droid didn’t do too badly during its launching weekend. The “iPhone killer” with Android 2.0 OS and real GPS and turn-by-turn voice navigation may have sold as many as 100,000 units. That’s only a tenth of the iPhone sales two years ago when the first-gen Apple phone came out, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Just announced is a drastic price reduction for the Garmin Nuvifone G60 GPS handset. The Nuvifone G60 started out earlier this year as a $300 handset on top of the two-year contract. Obviously, no one is buying the G60 for that price, hence the huge price cut. I wonder whether Garmin would be offering rebate [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 25, 2009
Both the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G S will officially be available in China by the end of this month courtesy of China Unicom. However, it seems that they’re not quite content in just nabbing new iPhone owners in the country, but are also keen on cashing in on those who already own an iPhone [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 12, 2009
Here’s a fan concept that even Apple will not top. It presents an Apple iPhone doing multitasking with the help of Coverflow at the bottom of the icons. The Coverflow shows all tasks that currently run on your iPhone. All running apps have a miniature representation in a cover flow at the bottom of the screen. To [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 2, 2009
Already a proven game-changer and markedominator, the Apple iPhone could even become more dominant… once wireless exclusivity is taken out, according to Kathryn Huberty, who works for the investment firm Morgan Stanley. The AT&T iPhone exclusive will end next year, which will likely increase the demand for the iPhone. “In the top six iPhone markets that [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 7, 2009
When we reported on Difital-Cube’s iStation T3 PMP, we’ve predicted the multimedia device will eat up iPod Touch sales. It wasn’t to be and the company thinks a change of hardware design will do it (definitely not an iPhone clone). It’s still a 4.3-inch (480 x 272) touchscreen PMP but no mention of fancy HD [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 13, 2009
The International Business Times is reporting that as many as 5 million Apple iPhones are going to be made available to the Chinese people. Money has already been exchanged to the tune of ten billion yuan or about $1.46 billion, which is roughly $292 per iPhone. The price of the 8G standard iPhone is set at [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 23, 2009
Terrible news to hear about an employee getting “berated” for misplacing an iPhone prototype, presumably for China, and then committing suicide in the days following. Sun Danyong has been entrusted 16 4GB iPhone prototypes, which we can only assume is the China iPhone, and when he reported one lost the Central Security Division of Foxconn [...]
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
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