Archive for the ‘Smartphones & Tablets’ Category

Flurry: Nexus One Sales Below Expectations

January 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Last week we have witnessed the launch of Google’s superphone, the Nexus One. The launches was plagued by problems with 3G connectivity and consumers not knowing where to go with them.

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Google Takes Nexus One D2C

January 5th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

The Nexus One has just become reality and with the launch of the device, Google is going D2C as consumers from the US, UK, Singapore and Hong Kong can order the device directly at the company.

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Motorola Sold 100K Droids so Far

November 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Motorola might be witnessing the same resurrection Palm did earlier this year. It’s new Android based ‘Droid’ handset has sold 100.000 units in the first weekend of sales.

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Device Anywhere Increases Android Support

November 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Device Anywhere has added a large number of Android handsets to its portfolio. The devices range from generally available devices to pre-commercial models.

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Project Pink Uncovered

September 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile, Platforms: XNA, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

We expected it for a long time, but Microsof't Project Pink seems to be all about the first official Microsoft mobile phones (not counting the Sidekick's from Danger which got acquired by MS).

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HTC Working on Cheaper Smartphones

August 6th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

HTC is rumoured to be signing up new component suppliers in order to bring down the costs of developing smartphones. By introducing cheaper hardware, HTC might boost the Android uptake.

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PSPgo, the new Mobile Games Platform?

July 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

It seems like Sony will be more aggressive to push the new PSPgo into the market. They striped the UMD drive, making it depend purely on digital downloads and their plans for it are along the lines of Apple's App Store.

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AT&T Slams the Pre

April 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Engadget managed to get their hands on an internal AT&T document which details the key differences between the iPhone and the Palm Pre (which is sold exclusively by their competitor Sprint).

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Nintendo Doesn’t look at Mobile …Yet…

April 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

During an event in Tokio last week, The Financial Times has held an interview with Satoru Iwata, Nintendo’s president, about Nintendo’s competition and mobile plans.

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OpenMoko Runs into Problems

April 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

For those that remember (this goes some time back), OpenMoko was a foundation that aimed at building mobile phones based on open source hardware (and probably software).

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