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RIM and Motorola modify nano-SIM proposal, hopes to meet Apple halfway
It's been a battle of epic proportions over a microscopic piece of plastic, but the warring sides appear to be working together to find a compromise. We're referring to the fight between Apple and a coalition formed by RIM, Motorola and Nokia as each group attempts to make their own nano-SIM design the ETSI standard. Neither entity has seemed ...
Droid RAZR Maxx Cut To $199 At Verizon Wireless, Source Says RAZR Price Cut To Follow
Watch out for falling prices! Verizon Wireless just cut the price of the RAZR Maxx to an attractive $199 . That puts it on par with the iPhone 4S and Galaxy Nexus, making the 32GB iPhone 4S and BlackBerry Bold 9930 as Verizon’s only phones north of $199. Interestingly enough, even though the standard-strength RAZR was on sale for ...
Carrier-Led Mobile Wallet Isis Partners With American Express: Adds Consumer, Biz Cards & AmEx’s Digital Payments Platform Serve
Isis , the carrier-led joint venture between AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, is gaining steam and has today announced a new addition to its mobile wallet: American Express. The Isis Mobile Wallet will now support American Express’ Consumer, Open Small Business and Serve cards, joining Chase, Capital One and Barclaycard, which have previously committed to the program. A mobile wallet ...
Mobile Miscellany: week of April 30th, 2012
Not all mobile news is destined for the front page, but if you're like us and really want to know what's going on, then you've come to the right place. This past week, we saw the first rollout of Verizon LTE from one of its rural partners, and both the Optimus L7 and Xperia U were spotted for Fido. ...
Why Can’t BlackBerry Muddle Through? They’re Not The 99%
Horace Dediu at Asymco has run the numbers and it’s not looking good. Samsung and Apple now control an estimated 99% of vendor profits with HTC scraping in with 1%. BlackBerry and Nokia barely register and, in fact, form a loss. First, I’d like to note why Dediu believes carriers are willing to cede so much of their profit ...
comScore: Android tips the 51% mark in US share, iPhone nips its heels with 31%
The March smartphone market share tally for the US is in from comScore, and it paints a familiar picture that's rosy for Apple, Google and Samsung, but not so flush-cheeked for everyone else. Android is still tops and jumped almost four points to 51 percent of new American buyers. Apple's still riding high after shipping 35.1 million iPhones , ...
Pegatron Corp. Signs Patent Agreement With Microsoft Over Android, Chrome OS Devices
Microsoft snagged another one. Pegatron is the latest company to sign a patent agreement with Microsoft concerning Android and Chrome devices. The exact terms of this agreement were not disclosed, but according to a press release issued this morning, Microsoft will receive royalties from Pegatron under this agreement. Microsoft’s aggressive strategy to license its patents for Android devices is ...
HTC Is Done With QWERTY Keyboard Phones
Touchscreens killed the keypad star. HTC is reportedly done with physical keypads and will instead focus on better on-screen keypad technology. The word comes from HTC creative director Claude Zellweger speaking at a Seattle press event. “As a company the QWERTY keyboard we’re moving away from in general.” This likely doesn’t mean HTC won’t release another QWERTY phone in ...
RIM patent application describes rotating keypad that can be used in more than one position
We've seen smartphones with keypads that can spin away from the screen before (see the Motorola Flipou t), but RIM seems to have something slightly different in mind with this patent application that was filed back in 2010 and just published today. It describes a device with a keypad that's coupled at one corner, but which can remain operable ...
RIM patent application describes rotating keypad that can be used in more than one position
We've seen smartphones with keypads that can spin away from the screen before (see the Motorola Flipou t), but RIM seems to have something slightly different in mind with this patent application that was filed back in 2010 and just published today. It describes a device with a keypad that's coupled at one corner, but which can remain operable ...
