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Most smartphones now have touchscreens; Android shipments grew 1074% YoY
Almost 30 million touchscreen smartphones were sold in the fourth quarter of 2009 worldwide (up to 138% year-on-year), meaning that 55% of the smartphones sold in said quarter were touchscreen-enabled.
This is the first time ever when touchscreen smartphones account for more than half of the total smartphone sales in a quarter.
According to Canalys, more than [...]
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Motorola still leading the US mobile market, followed by LG and Samsung
Although Motorola is struggling for market share in Europe and Asia, it’s still the number one phone maker in the US.
According to comScore, which ranked handset makers “according to their share of current mobile subscribers age 13 and older,” Motorola had 23.5% phone market share in the US between September and December 2009, while LG [...]
LG GT350 QWERTY phone announced as the successor of KS360
It looks like it’s an important day for South Korea’s major phone makers: after the Samsung Monte S5620 and the LG Mini GD880, now the LG GT350 has been announced as well.
Building on the success of LG KS360 (also known as LG Neon and sold in more than 5 million units since August 2008), the [...]
LG Mini GD880 gets official, will be available in March
The same day when Samsung announced the Monte S5620, LG unveiled a new touchscreen phone, too – the LG Mini GD880.
Touted as “the smallest and slimmest 3.2-inch full touchscreen phone on the market today,” the LG Mini GD880 features textured metal accents on the sides and it kind of resembles the LG GD510 Pop.
The Mini [...]
With NEC’s CE151 Chip, 13 MP and HD Video on Phones is a Reality
Yesterday NEC introduced a new camera chip optimized for use in new cell phones that will make their included cameras comparable to DSLR cameras on the market today. With the chip, the possibility of using your mobile phone to record HD video in 1080p, not to mention stills with a res of up to 13 [...]
Samsung Monte S5620 officially announced, no Bada OS on this one
The Samsung Monte S5620 (seen in some leaked photos not long ago) has just been officially announced, and it’s presented by Samsung as an affordable “full touch screen device for style-conscious mobile users.”
The Monte S5620 runs TouchWiz 2.0 Plus UI (not Bada OS) and offers a set of multimedia features, as well as social networking [...]
ZoomIt Enables SD Card Reader in iPhones
When Apple announced OS 3.0 last summer, one of the highly anticipated features was the ability to integrate Apple-certified third-party accessories into accompanying apps, thus giving the user a lot more possible functionality. Surprisingly, however, only a handful of devs have truly taken advantage of this opportunity. One company called ZoomMediaPlus is now showing off [...]
DROID Update Brings More Multitouch Goodness to Android
Last week we heard some news we’ve been waiting a long time for: the Nexus One has finally been updated with multitouch capabilities. While we rejoiced upon hearing the news, we wondered how soon it would be before we would see it in other Android-supported devices. Fortunately the Motorola DROID, another big player in the [...]
Google Reportedly Working on Babel Fish Phone With Speech Translation
Followers of Star Trek have always been intrigued by the concept of the Universal Translator, a device that enables people who speak different languages to understand each other as if in their own native tongue. This particular futuristic idea has always felt like the technology is centuries away, but according to Google, we’re a lot [...]