PC Magazine – The BlackBerry Storm 9530, RIM’s first touchscreen smartphone and an obvious nod to the iPhone 3G, carries a combined materials and manufacturing cost of about $203, according to iSuppli’s Teardown Analysis ServiceĀ$30 more than what it costs Apple to build each iPhone 3G.
Dell is preparing to enter the cell phone arena as early as next month, to increase sales as its crumbling PC business struggles in the recession.
The world’s No. 2 maker of PCs has had a group of engineers designing prototypes for more than a year from an office in the Chicago area, focusing on smartphones [...]
PC World – Mobile phone maker i-mate has something special planned for Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona next month, according to a brief report on msmobiles.com. Details? Um…no. Here’s all we know so far:
PC World – One way that consumers can cut back on spending during the economic crisis is to keep a closer eye on cell-phone rip offs, a consumer group said on Thursday.
Reuters – Research In Motion’s touchscreen BlackBerry Storm costs almost $30 more to produce than rival Apple Inc’s iPhone 3G, according to an analysis by technology research firm iSuppli Corp.
AP – Sony said Thursday its net profit plunged 95 percent in the October-December quarter, as the holiday shopping season provided no respite for the struggling electronics giant and tepid sales of TVs, digital cameras and cell phones hit its bottom line.
Reuters – Nokia unveiled on Thursday three new cellphone models, including the successor to its slim hit model Nokia 6300, as the world’s top handset vendor pushes to win a larger share of a shrinking market.
NewsFactor – AT&T said it activated 1.9 million iPhone 3Gs in the fourth quarter. It also reported iPhone 3G activations topped 4.3 million in the second half of last year.
Reuters – The United States and Scandinavian countries top the annual rankings on the usage of telecommunications technologies such as networks, cellphones and computers, a report released on Wednesday shows.
NewsFactor – Apple has approved a stripped-down version of Podcaster, an App Store application that was denied approval last year, and has released an update for the iPhone and iPhone 3G. The original Podcaster competed with Apple’s iTunes.
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