cell phones

Toshiba is poised to launch a model in its Z830 Portege Ultrabook series for $799.99 at Best Buy, which will be a new low price point for this emerging laptop category. The Portege Z835 at Best Buy (model: Z835-P330) packs a “Sandy Bridge” 1.4GHz Core i3-2367M processor, 4GB DDR3 memory, 13.3″ LED-backlit display (1366×768), and [...]

Windows Phone interfaceNo one expects Windows Phone to leap over Google Android and Apple iOS in a single bound, but industry analysts have been revising their projections for Windows Phone, now forecasting a dramatic surge in sales over the coming 12 months. Other data finds growing consumer awareness of and interest in the Microsoft platform, [...]

Google’s Android smartphone operating system had a 43 percent share in the US smartphone market for the period ending October while Apple’s iOS seems stuck at 28 percent. According to a report released by research outfit Nielsen, Research in Motion’s BlackBerry OS seems to be struggling with a 17 percent market share while Microsoft’s Windows [...]

      SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ – The leading company in online money transfers, Xoom.com, announced today the launch of their mobile website.  The mobile website allows customers to send money easily from a mobile phone in the United States. This decision to create a mobile website was supported by recent studies [...]

CHRIS GARDNER every second cellphone sold in New Zealand falls into the smartphone category. The popularity of smartphones, so named because they can do more than normal cellphones, means more variety and lower prices. Smartphones are really pocket personal computers. along with the ability to make phone calls, they offer users full access to email [...]

The new HTC Radar is the first 4G Windows phone on the market. it is a nice phone. Really nice. but with the recent release of LTE network phones with brawny dual-core processors and the recent iPhone 4s, is nice good enough? The HTC Radar is the first Windows Phone on the market with 4G [...]

ANDROID phones are becoming increasingly popular in the Philippines, thanks in part to the introduction of lower-cost handsets from various manufacturers and budget subscription plans offered by mobile service providers. With a growing number of users, it’s no surprise that the number of Philippine-focused applications, too, has grown. Today, a quick search for “Philippine” in [...]

Microsoft said Sunday that it has struck another licensing deal under which it will receive royalty fees from a manufacturer of devices that run Google Android and Chrome software, which Redmond claims violate its patents. The agreement covers smartphones, tablets, and other devices that Taiwan-based Compal, known in industry parlance as an original design manufacturer [...]

The interface in my Optimus 7 is nice enough, and I like the browser and e-mail clients a lot better than my previous Android phone, where they frankly sucked a bit. Also, every WP7 phone comes with a huge amount of internal memory, and despite the lacking RAM and CPU, everything is a lot smoother [...]

RIM is going through some tough times. the company’s products though popular aren’t getting positive reviews. BlackBerry is being clobbered by Apple and Android; to make matters worse, Microsoft’s Windows Phone is being considered as the third mobile ecosystem. Speculations and suggestions of RIM being bought keep surfacing frequently. With a brave face RIM introduced [...]