Panasonic is exiting the small-to-mid-sized TV LCD panel business. Instead, according to the Japanese news service Nikkei, it will focus on producing panels for tablets and 50-inch and larger TV panels. The company claimed that demand for the smaller TVs has dropped since the Japanese government stopped offering subsidies for energy efficient appliances, effectively making […]
The LG DoublePlay, a dual-screen Android smartphone, which was officially announced for T-Moblie on October 17, now has a launch date. TmoNews has posted an internal marketing info sheet that reveals the expected ship date is November 2. In addition to a regular screen, the phone features a smaller screen nestled between a split QWERTY […]
T-Mobile USA today became one of the first carriers to pick up the Galaxy W. Rebadged as the Exhibit II 4G, it targets mid-range users with a 3.7-inch LCD and a single-core, 1GHz Snapdragon chip. Most of its cost-savings come through three-megapixel back and front VGA (0.3-megapixel) cameras, although it supports 14.4Mbps data. Android 2.3 […]
Nokia has formally unveiled its first Windows Phone 7 mobile devices. CEO Stephen Elop took the wraps off the new devices at its London Nokia World 2011 special event. Two phones will be heading the Nokia charge, the Lumia 800 (Sea Ray) and the Lumia 710 (Sabre). As leaks ahead of the official launch had […]
Corning late Tuesday said it had started producing its next-generation tough glass for mobile devices. Lotus Glass has better tolerance for heat and size than earlier technology, making it an ideal fit for future smartphone and tablet displays. The screen is built with next-generation LTPS (low-temperature poly-silicon) LCDs and OLEDs in mind, where higher resolutions […]
LG in its summer results saw its mobile group worsen despite its shift to higher-end Android models. The group lost $128.47 million, more than twice what it had lost in the spring. It didn’t say what had triggered the shortfall or how many phones it had shipped, although it has regularly seen its basic phone […]
Sprint touted better results for the summer quarter, its last before it picked up the iPhone 4S. Although it lost $301 million, the loss was much less than both $847 million in the spring and the $911 million of a year ago. It also added 1.3 million total new customers, 304,000 of which were its […]
GPS mapping application RouteBuddy released a bugfix upgrade to its recent v3.1 update. Called v3.1.1, the upgrade addresses several bugs as well as restores support for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) users, fixing an issue that caused the program to be unable to launch in 10.5. The new version dramatically increases the speed of importing […]
RIM’s Senior VP for the BlackBerry PlayBook, David Smith, quickly confirmed rumors of a delay in PlayBook 2.0. The release, once promised soon after DevCon last week, now won’t arrive until February. RIM wanted to make sure it “fully met the expectations” of both developers and users before it shipped, he said. To help get […]
Amazon on Tuesday revealed that it had very strong demand for its Kindle Fire tablet and Kindle Touch reader. CEO Jeff Bezos claimed that pre-orders were so strong that Amazon was bulking up production at Quanta to handle the load. “Millions more” were being made, Bezos said. Even the traditional e-paper updates, the fourth-generation Kindle […]
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