Motorola has been suing BlackBerry maker Research In Motion over a patent relegated to an email gateway; however, a high court judge has ruled that Research In Motion doesn’t infringe Motorola’s patent reports an article over on the Calgary Herald. Apparently the high court judge in London invalidated a Motorola patent saying that even if…
Disappointment surrounds Apple’s iPhone at the moment following the recent published market share results. Maybe it is time for a new iPhone in 2010 in order to recoup. Even though the iPhone accounted for around 16.6 of all smartphone sales this was still a drop from the previous quarter. According to reports from ABI Research….
With all the commotion Google experience with Nexus One users and their need for customer support when issues were experienced with the latest Android smartphone, it appears that Google has learnt a lesson and is taking necessary steps to deliver some phone support in future. When Google launched the Nexus One they weren’t prepared for…
As most are aware, customer support for the Google Nexus One superphone was found somewhat lacking when Nexus One owners experience issues with the smartphone, mainly due to Google not having any phone support. This led to customers venting their anger on forums over the requirement the email Android support with a response time of…
The UK Office of Fair Trading has now asked Brussels for permission to investigate the merger between mobile phone carriers T-Mobile and Orange, and consumer groups have welcomed the news reports an article over on the Guardian. Which? had mounted a campaign for the OFT to scrutinise the merger rather than Brussels authorities because the…
I’m sure most people who use mobile games have heard of Gameloft, well Gameloft has revealed their financial results for 2009 which they say comes to a sales figure of €122.0 million which is about $170 million according to an article over on techcrunch. Gameloft also broke down the figures to show ‘iPhone revenue’ which…
Apparently Kevin Russell, the boss of Three UK has verbally bashed internet and email roaming charges abroad, and has called the “ludicrous and stupid” according to an article over on electricpig. Three UK CEO Russell shows a disparity between UK data rate at on average £15 per 5GB and abroad in the EU at £6,250,…
Although no doubt the iconic iPhone is still a hugely popular smartphone with the public, according to ABI Research the iPhone is losing market share and says the iPhone in Q4 accounted for 16.6% of smartphone sales while in Q3 market share was at 18.1% reports 9to5mac. According to the article, in the fourth quarter,…
As of yesterday the 1st of Feb, T-Mobile is replacing their Flext, Solo and Combi tariffs with the introduction of the T-Mobile Flexible Booster tariff reports an article over on daily mobile. Apparently this new initiative by T-Mobile is to deliver manoeuvrability to the customer so they can built a personal package best suited to…
Looks like the iPhone is doing well for Japan’s Softbank as the company says that fiscal Q3 net profit leapt 41 percent due to strong sales of the iconic iPhone and services reports an article over on the WSJ. The 3rd largest mobile phone firm by subscribers in Japan stated that their net profit for…
According to Jake Saunders, VP for forecasting at ABI Research, 336.5 million mobile devices were shipped during Q4 of 09 which is up 15.1 percent on quarter reports an article over on digitimes. ABI Research also said that competition still squeezed handset ASPs and in Q4 of 2009 shipment based APSs were down 2 percent…
