Friday, January 27, 2012

TELUS Launching New SIM Cards February 1st, Motorola Announces Q4 2011 Earnings & Size Matters: Clever Website Compares Smartphone Proportions

iPad Owns 96% of Enterprise Market and iPhone Share Climbs to 53%, Study Finds
Enterprise mobile vendor Good Technology published a new study on Thursday revealing iOS’s massive market share in the corporate world. The iPad accounted for 96% of all tablets in the fourth quarter according to the firm, while the iPhone accounted for 53% of all smartphones activated by more than 2,000 companies using Good’s services in the fourth quarter.
BGR

Phone Size Compare

Size Matters: Clever Website Compares Smartphone Proportions
If you’re smartphone fanatic like I am, you want to know the precise size of each one of these phones. Sure, that latest model may be super slim, but will it be too large for your pocket?
Mashable

Motorola Announces Q4 2011 Earnings: $3.4 Billion Revenue, $80 Million Net Loss
Motorola offered a estimate that lowered expectations for its Q4 2011 earnings earlier this month, and it’s now out with the final numbers, reporting net revenues of $3.4 billion and a GAAP net loss of $80 million.
Engadget

TELUS Launching New SIM Cards February 1st, Compatible “With All upcoming LTE Devices”
TELUS announced in a recent press release that they’ll be officially turning on their LTE network “later this quarter”. However, an internal doc that we received might reveal the launch date is actually much closer. New SIM cards (version 3) will be rolled out on February 1st.
MobileSyrup

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

‘Disappointing’ iPhone 4S Leads Apple to Most Profitable Quarter, Bell and Virgin Mobile Rollout HD Voice & Do We Really Need LTE Right Now?

‘Disappointing’ iPhone 4S Leads Apple to Most Profitable Quarter in Tech History
Apple on Wednesday reported record earnings for the December quarter, revealing a profit of $13.06 billion on revenue that surpassed $46 billion. Among technology companies, Apple’s fiscal first quarter represents the most profitable quarter ever recorded.
BGR

Motorola Droid Razr Maxx

Droid RAZR MAXX Streets January 26 for $299
Verizon Wireless today announced that the Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX will be available starting January 26. It will cost $299.99 with a new two-year contract. The RAZR MAXX is nearly identical to the RAZR, but packs a 3300mAh battery and boasts 21 hours of talk time. It runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread and has a dual-core 1.2Ghz processor.
PhoneScoop

Bell and Virgin Mobile Rollout HD Voice
Today, both Bell and Virgin have rolled out HD Voice to their HSPA+ customers – this is available for free on select handsets. For Bell, currently the HD Voice compatible phones are the Nokia C6, Nokia C6-01, HTC Sensation and the HTC Incredible S.
MobileSyrup

Do We Really Need LTE Right Now? Aren’t 3G Speeds Enough?
The fact that 50% of the 7.7 million smartphones that Verizon sold in the 4th quarter of 2011 were 3G iPhones should indicate that consumers are willing to accept 3G for a couple of years instead of waiting for LTE speeds. Of course, the majority of those 7.7 million users were probably not in an LTE market at this time. Even if they were, do they need LTE?
GottaBeMobile

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Steve Wozniak: Android Is Better Than the iPhone in Some Ways, Nearly 5% of Smartphone Shipments This Year with LTE & When You Can Get That New Device from CES?

Some Addicted Smartphone Users Hear “Phantom” Vibrations
A new research report from the University of Worcester states that those who use a smartphone are more stressed than those who don’t. 100 volunteers participated in the survey who first received a smartphone for solely work purposes, gradually found themselves checking/rechecking for new notifications after work hours. Sometimes these users even heard “phantom” vibrations which they thought were new messages, but actually weren’t.
MobileSyrup

iPhone and Android

Steve Wozniak: Android Is Better Than the iPhone in Some Ways
One of the co-founders of Apple has some love for Android, it turns out. “My primary phone is the iPhone,” Steve Wozniak says. “I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do.”
Mashable

2012 Gadget Calendar: When You Can Get That New Device from CES?
With so much announced at CES 2012, making sense of exactly when all of that gadgetry will arrive for the good people of the world to enjoy is a bit of a mess. So, want to know what’s coming and when? Just scan this article to find out.
Pocket-lint

LTE Smartphones to Account for Nearly 5% of Smartphone Shipments This Year
Smartphones capable of running on 4G LTE networks will account for between 4% and 5% of all smartphones that ship this year, according to one report. The estimates were published by DigiTimes on Monday, which cited sources at U.S., Korean and Japanese phone manufacturers including Samsung, LG, Pantech, Motorola Mobility and HTC.
BGR

Monday, January 16, 2012

OpenMedia Launches “Stop the Cell Phone Squeeze” Campaign, Skype Confirmed for Windows Phone & Droid RAZR MAXX To Launch On January 26th?

OpenMedia Launches “Stop the Cell Phone Squeeze” Campaign
Earlier this week activist group OpenMedia started an online petition called “Stop the Cell Phone Squeeze”. This takes direct aim at the Big 3 and their attempt to “trick the government into shutting independent competitors out of the market. They’re trying to block competitors from being able to use essential wireless spectrum”.
MobileSyrup

Motorola Droid Razr Maxx

Droid RAZR MAXX To Launch On January 26th?
While there wasn’t much to say about the recently announced Droid RAZR MAXX to begin with (it’s essentially the Droid RAZR with a bigger battery and more storage), Motorola and Verizon decided to leave out one key bit of detail: the launch date. While it’s still not 100% confirmed, Motorola’s own RAZR MAXX product page now pinpoints the big day as January 26th.
TechCrunch

Skype Confirmed for Windows Phone
Microsoft’s Windows Phone Skype app appears to be nearing release. Skype’s VP of products, Rick Osterloh, revealed that Microsoft’s Skype division is “working on a Windows Phone product that will be coming out soon,” during an interview at CES 2012. Microsoft has typically refused to comment in detail on its Skype plans, after the company acquired the voice and video calling service in October.
GottaBeMobile

CES 2012: Smartphones Round-up
The Superbowl of smartphones? Why, that would be Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month. But that didn’t stop the mobile industry’s heavy hitters from giving us a taste of the year in wireless to come at CES. With Windows Phones finally getting LTE, Intel’s Medfield CPU making its handset debut, Sony synergizing under its mega brand umbrella and fringe manufacturers wowing attendees with stock Ice Cream Sandwich and super-thin profiles, it appears phone aficionados have plenty to anticipate.
Engadget