What Nokia needs is less Symbian, and more innovative phones like they were wheeling out a couple of years ago with their N-series line. Merely whacking a 1GHz Snapdragon chip in won’t help pick them up off the floor, however great they’re doing financially
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Qualcomm isn’t typically in the business of producing consumer-facing hardware — the company prefers to just build the chips that make your devices go “vroom” — but we’ve come across a patent application that details just such an idea. The multi-fold mobile device can be seen as either a foldable tablet or an expandable cellphone, but in either case its purpose is clearly to act as a hybrid device that performs both roles.
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Scott Moritz of TheStreet.com has a knack for landing exclusive stories—Microsoft-branded phones, Verizon-based iPhones and more—but his track record isn’t exactly the best based on what Technologizer found in their breakdown of these “exclusive” stories.
TheStreet.com’s Scott Moritz has an exciting exclusive: Northeast Securities analyst Ashok Kumar has learned that Microsoft is working on a Microsoft-branded phone based on its Windows Phone 7 Series OS. It’ll be manufactured by HTC, and software problems have postponed its release into 2011.
The story would seem to give new life to old rumors about a Microsoft phone, code-named project “Pink.” Except…Scott Moritz stories headlined as”exclusives”–usually crediting Kumar for the scoop–have a crummy track record of exclusively revealing stuff that turns out to be true. When I see them, my instinctive response is skepticism, not bland acceptance of anything in the story as gospel.
Shall we recap?
The exclusive: Verizon, disgruntled over Palm Pre sales, decides not to sell the phone:
The upshot: At January’s CES show, announced it would sell Palm’s Pre Plus and Pixi Plus, starting later that month. (Of course, it’s conceivable that Verizon changed its mind, and if you want to get really technical, you might contend that the Pre Plus isn’t a Pre.)
The exclusive: Google plans to to sell an Android phone through retailers by the end of the year, bypassing wireless carriers, says Kumar:
The upshot: The Google phone is real , and it almost shipped in 2009. Moritz’s story says it will use a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip (correct) and speculates that it might be built by HTC (ditto). But it’s sold direct by Google, not at retail–and it’s offered with a rather non-disruptive T-Mobile contract.
The exclusive:Kumar says that the much-anticipated Apple tablet will use a chip from Apple’s own PA Semi division,not an Intel CPU:
The upshot: Bingo! (Of course, the real surprise would have been if the iPhone-like iPad did use an Intel processor.)
The exclusive: A new iPhone available on Verizon Wireless this summer wpack a Qualcomm wireless chip, Kumar says:
The upshot: We may not know for a few months if there’s anything to this one.
The exclusive:: Kumar has learned that the Apple tablet will use Verizon Wireless for broadband–proven by its use of a Qualcomm chip:
The upshot: Less than a week later, Apple unveiled the iPad. Its 3G version will run on AT&T. I’m not sure if anyone who isn’t involved with manufacturing of iPads knows for sure if there’s any Qualcomm technology inside.
That’s three exclusives that turned out to be completely or partially bogus, one that was correct, and two (counting the new Microsoft one) that may or may not amount to anything. Even if you assume that both the Qualcomm iPhone and Microsoft phone exclusives will pan out, chances would be fifty percent that Moritz was right, and fifty percent that he was wrong.
Anyone want to explain why Moritz keeps relaying Kumar’s rumors as “exclusive” facts–and why TheStreet lets him do so?
Reprinted with permission from Technologizer.
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Acer have pulled off a neat trick with the neoTouch P400. The body and design is identical to their Android-powered E400 device, but here you’ll get Windows Mobile 6.5.3 on-board. It really is a nice looking handset – the glowing “Home” key will alert you to any information and the phone is really slim and light.
Using the Qualcomm 7227 CPU at 600Mhz it has a 3.2″ HVGA screen. WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, aGPS, microSD expansion, G-sensor, compass and 3.2 megapixel camera. Arriving in May this also has the Spinlets app along with all the social network stuff (YouTube, Facebook, Bloggr, Flickr etc).
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Acer have pulled off a neat trick with the neoTouch P400. The body and design is identical to their Android-powered E400 device, but here you’ll get Windows Mobile 6.5.3 on-board. It really is a nice looking handset – the glowing “Home” key will alert you to any information and the phone is really slim and light.
Using the Qualcomm 7227 CPU at 600Mhz it has a 3.2″ HVGA screen. WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, aGPS, microSD expansion, G-sensor, compass and 3.2 megapixel camera. Arriving in May this also has the Spinlets app along with all the social network stuff (YouTube, Facebook, Bloggr, Flickr etc).
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Acer neoTouch P400 – The details
Acer have pulled off a neat trick with the neoTouch P400. The body and design is identical to their Android-powered E400 device, but here you’ll get Windows Mobile 6.5.3 on-board. It really is a nice looking handset – the glowing “Home” key will alert you to any information and the phone is really slim and light.
Using the Qualcomm 7227 CPU at 600Mhz it has a 3.2″ HVGA screen. WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, aGPS, microSD expansion, G-sensor, compass and 3.2 megapixel camera. Arriving in May this also has the Spinlets app along with all the social network stuff (YouTube, Facebook, Bloggr, Flickr etc).
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Acer neoTouch P400 – The details
Tune your brainwaves back to October 2009, when there were whispers and dreams of a Nokia phone fitted with the fast and trendy Snapdragon processor. Now tune back to present day, where Qualcomm’s CEO Paul Jacobs has mentioned in an interview that just such a Symbian-powered device (S^3, we’d hope) is on the horizon. Better yet, it’s coming sometime in 2010. No other details, but hey, sometimes all you need is a hope and a prayer to get by.
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Now, whilst we don’t cover the Qualcomm Brew platform, we were on site for the HTC and o2 anouncement. The HTC Smart, which was announced earlier is to be rolled out across Germany, Ireland and the UK on the o2 network. There’s a range of colours and all the familiar HTC Sense stuff you’ve come to expect on Windows Mobile and Android, but for a much lower price point.
o2 and HTC are really targetting the “masses” here and the 16-22 age group in particular. It’s a way to introduce the HTC Sense interface and HTC brand to more people and, with any luck, they’ll be buying HTC phones and Windows Mobile or Android phones later on.
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Now, whilst we don’t cover the Qualcomm Brew platform, we were on site for the HTC and o2 anouncement. The HTC Smart, which was announced earlier is to be rolled out across Germany, Ireland and the UK on the o2 network. There’s a range of colours and all the familiar HTC Sense stuff you’ve come to expect on Windows Mobile and Android, but for a much lower price point.
o2 and HTC are really targetting the “masses” here and the 16-22 age group in particular. It’s a way to introduce the HTC Sense interface and HTC brand to more people and, with any luck, they’ll be buying HTC phones and Windows Mobile or Android phones later on.
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HTC and o2 Team up for Smart roll-out
Now, whilst we don’t cover the Qualcomm Brew platform, we were on site for the HTC and o2 anouncement. The HTC Smart, which was announced earlier is to be rolled out across Germany, Ireland and the UK on the o2 network. There’s a range of colours and all the familiar HTC Sense stuff you’ve come to expect on Windows Mobile and Android, but for a much lower price point.
o2 and HTC are really targetting the “masses” here and the 16-22 age group in particular. It’s a way to introduce the HTC Sense interface and HTC brand to more people and, with any luck, they’ll be buying HTC phones and Windows Mobile or Android phones later on.
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When we first saw it at the London launch we walked out of the event half-way through. We were Windows Mobile “only” then but, after having the device in our hands for the week after, we were won over. It did compete well with the iPhone, it did have the functionality and the customization. The Hero alone was responsible for us covering Android.
The Hero last night won the Best Mobile Handset or Device at the 15th Annual Global Mobile Awards. This is an award that is normally given to companies like Nokia, so for HTC to scoop this is a big thing but the Hero deserves it. It is a fantastic phone. Well done HTC.
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When we first saw it at the London launch we walked out of the event half-way through. We were Windows Mobile “only” then but, after having the device in our hands for the week after, we were won over. It did compete well with the iPhone, it did have the functionality and the customization. The Hero alone was responsible for us covering Android.
The Hero last night won the Best Mobile Handset or Device at the 15th Annual Global Mobile Awards. This is an award that is normally given to companies like Nokia, so for HTC to scoop this is a big thing but the Hero deserves it. It is a fantastic phone. Well done HTC.
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The Samsung Wave has amazing graphics performance, if a slide from a Samsung panel at Mobile World Congress is to be believed – four times the performance of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips.
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The Samsung Wave has amazing graphics performance, if a slide from a Samsung panel at Mobile World Congress is to be believed – four times the performance of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips.
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