Nokia declared its Q4 2009 results yesterday and to the surprise of many the company’s earnings were better than expected. Recently Nokia has been facing tough time in the smart phone market due to increase in popularity of Apple’s iPhone and Blackberry
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Demand for N900, N97 Boosts Nokia Earnings; Market Share 39%
In a much anticipated move, Apple CEO Steve Jobs yesterday announced the all new Apple iPad. There’s been a lot of negative chatter – all with good reason, based on specs, etc – about this first gen iPad, but could it be that Steve Jobs has AGAIN latched on to what could be the next big trend in consumer devices?
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Apple’s All New iPad. Does it appeal to you?
Press release: Sunnyvale, Calif. January 26, 2010 — InvenSense, Inc., the number one supplier of MEMS gyroscopes for motion processing solutions in consumer electronics, today announced the MPU-3000 family of motion processing units. The MPU-3000 features the industry’s first 3-axis gyroscope with an embedded Digital Motion Processor™ (DMP) hardware accelerator engine
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InvenSense Unveils World’s First Motion Processing Unit for Smartphones
RIM has a good reputation in the trade exhibition world: it seldom attains any declarations of interest or effect during events, but if you look hard adequate, you still could just find something spicy. Last year’s CES, for instance, concisely saw a Curve 8900 mysteriously running AT&T-branded microcode, which we nowadays recognize foretold a release a lot of months later. This year’s shindig in Vegas raised to be a little less declamatory — or so we thought, in any case, until a dude cleaning out his camera’s storage in memory card pointed out that Case-Mate (of all companies) allegedly had an unpredicted Curve 8910 chilling in its booth.
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BlackBerry Curve 8910 Spotted at Case-Mate’s booth?
I just received an interesting email from AT&T and thought I would share it with all my PinStack friends who are concerned with ETF’s. See the attached image to see and read more clearly. Should the court approve this settlement, any current or former US customer of AT&T Mobility who was charged a flat-rate ETF any time from January 1, 1998 through November 4, 2009, can submit a claim form to receive up to $140 By settling the case now, AT&T avoids having to argue that users 23 months into their contracts should have to pay the same ETF as someone who just signed up
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AT&T proposes $18 million settlement for New Jersey ETF lawsuit
The never ending myriad of lawsuits in the smartphone market has added another to it’s ranks. This time, it’s Motorola who has filed a patent infringement claim against RIM with the ITC (International Trade Commission), seeking not only monetary compensation, but to have the sale of RIM devices using the patents, banned in the U.S
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Motorola Files Patent Complaint Against RIM
Many PinStackers and site guests are aware of the fact that, PinStack’s goal (Smartphone Professionals Alliance ) is not to polarize smartphone users based on what platform they currently use. We believe that at their core, smartphone users share the same basic needs
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Report: iPhone, Android, Blackberry users use the SAME apps
I spotted a tweet this morning about AdMob’s latest quarterly report which shows Android numbers are still steadily climbing, nearly doubling from the previous quarter. “Today we released the December edition of our Mobile Metrics report, our monthly look at the data flowing through our network. This month we look at several key metrics including manufacturer share, operating system share, top devices, and top smartphones for each region in our network
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AdMob Quarterly Report: Android Numbers Almost Doubled Again
Twice.com reports: GM’s OnStar subsidiary will offer smartphone applications that will let Chevy Volt owners control key vehicle functions and OnStar features from afar. The OnStar web app.The applications for iPhone, BlackBerry and Android phones will be available when the electric vehicle launches late this year, OnStar said.
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Chevy Volt To Get Smartphone Control
Congrats to the 3 winners of the TeleNav GPS Navigation 1 Year Subscription giveaway ! (Kimberlee, tfrankson and btmg) Everyone who participated in this giveaway benefits because Telenav took note of your feedback and will consider suggestions in future releases. Try TeleNav FREE for 30 days and enjoy premium GPS navigation right on your smartphone! Get turn-by-turn driving directions by voice and onscreen
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If you’ve been following all the rumors about the Apple Tablet, it’s no more official than it was yesterday, but now we at least have a solid date for when anticipation will turn into reality. Apple sent out invitations to many news outlets announcing a special press conference to be held Jan.
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Apple Announces Press Event for Jan. 27, Apple Tablet Unveiling?
TeleNav would like to giveaway one-year subscriptions of Telenav GPS Navigator to three PinStackers that will be selected randomly at the end of this contest. If you own any of the following supported smartphones , then here’s how to enter…
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TeleNav GPS Navigator: 1 Year Subscription Giveaway – Reply to enter
Guardian UK : Kodak has launched lawsuits alleging that the iPhone and BlackBerry – two of the world’s most popular mobile phones – infringe its patents. The photographic pioneer said on Thursday that it had filed a case in the Western District of New York against Apple and Canadian handset manufacturer Research in Motion, as well as an extra one against Apple, amid claims that they that were unfairly using technology patented by Kodak Eastman. Read More
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Kodak launches lawsuit against iPhone and BlackBerry
Yesterday, Google announced a new feature that will make it easier to search from mobile phones. Now, when using Google’s search engine on a smartphone, Google will take into account where the phone currently is and tailor the search to show local results. Google’s location-based search may raise a few privacy concerns for people…
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Google Adds Location-Based Feature to Mobile Searches
The months of speculation about Netflix for the Nintendo Wii have ended with the announcement that indeed Wii owners will be able to stream Netflix movies soon. Netflix advertises that Wii owners will start streaming movies as early as this spring. No official date has been given.
The Sonim XP3.2 Quest Pro was introduced by Sonim at CES 2010, it is boasted as the toughest phone available with an IP67 rating, and will come to both AT&T and T-mobile immediately. The New AT&T Cell phones - AT&T XP3.2 Quest Pro is a rugged handset, obviously it enables to be dustproof and waterproof, and it comes with a scratch and smash resistant Gorilla Glass Lens that protect its display. Also MIL-810G has certified for us the Quest Pro has a resistance to shock, humidity, heat and salt
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AT&T Sonim XP3.2 Quest Pro – New Unlocked ATT phone
There are some press events where several vendors are brought into one area for us to meet all those we have been emailing and calling throughout the year and check out the latest products and service offerings. Last night I attended the Showstoppers event at the Wynn hotel and actually found it to be one of the best Showstoppers I have attended in a few years and was constantly talking to people in the hour and a half I was there. Keep reading below for summaries of some of the companies I visited.
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CES 2010: A walk around Showstoppers, from a mobile perspective
It has been long-rumored that Dell will launch an android smartphone in the US market, but it doesn’t mention which model and what the device looks like. Today Dell fianlly confirmed this, it is reported an Android-powered tablet phone will henad to the second largest US carrier, obviously it is most probably the AT&T . Unfortunately, Dell doesn’t call the new samrtphone as MID , but tablet
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AT&T Dell Mini 3/ Tablet Live Photos
Touch screen based phones are awesome which displays the delights in a single touch. Thanks to the technology for enabling the globe on the go but our greasy fingers smudges the touch screen phones. In order to solve this problem new fingerprint-resistant line of screen protectors, the Targus Screen Protector with Clear ViewTM technology is announced.
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A Fingerprint-resistant cosmetic for your Touch screen phones
I just returned from the Plastic Logic press event on the CES 2010 show floor where they unveiled everything about the QUE proReader. If you are looking for another ebook reader to compete with the nook, Kindle, or Sony Reader then you might as well stop reading this post now and look for my other articles because this is NOT a competitor to those devices that are focused on ebook reading. The QUE proReader is a device for the mobile business professional who wants to take their electronic file cabinet with them on the go to read and work with their documents.
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CES 2010: QUE proReader lets you work with documents, not just read them