T-Mobile Interested in Selling Huawei’s IDEOS Phone

According to the Wall Street Journal, T-Mobile USA is in talks with Huawei about the Chinese company’s new IDEOS Android smartphone. A source cited by the Journal said that a deal isn’t in place yet, but one could be forged within four to six weeks. Huawei developed the Tap touch phone, which was branded and sold by T-Mobile. Huawei has yet to strike a major win with U.S. network operators, and the company confirmed that it is talking to the ..read more

iOS now 3rd most popular internet platform after Windows, Mac

Net Applications is reporting that iOS has passed Linux to become the third most popular platform accessing the internet. With a 1.1% share, they’re still behind big brother Mac OS X’s 5% and way behind Windows all-encompassing 91.3% share. However, for a mobile OS, especially considering the next most popular mobile OS, Android, is at 0.2%, that’s a fairly huge accomplishment. According to Vince Vizzaccaro, VP of NetApps:

“Whatever the sales are, we’re seeing iOS totally dominate the market on the ..read more

Steve Jobs: 230,000 iOS activations a day, not counting upgrades like Google. Google responds.

During his 2010 Apple special music event numbers breakdown, Steve Jobs said that Apple is activating 230,000 iOS devices a day. He made sure to point out those were new activations and said some of their “friends” (read: Google) are counting upgrades in their numbers (200,000 Android activations a day).

“If we counted upgrades in our numbers they’d be way higher than 230,000″

Jobs thinks, using that metric, Apple is ahead of everybody else.

Google, however, told Fortune that Jobs has it wrong:

“The ..read more

Samsung to Focus on Android and Bada

Samsung today indicated that moving forward, Google’s Android mobile operating system and its own bada mobile operating system will be the focus of its smartphone efforts. “We are Prioritizing our Android platform. Android is very open and flexible, and there is a consumer demand for it,” YH Lee, head of marketing at Samsung Mobile, told Reuters in an interview. This focus on Android and bada comes at the expense of Microsoft’s Window Phone 7. Samsung plans to introduce one WP7 ..read more

Skype No Longer Kills Wi-Fi in Android App

Skype has pushed out a minor update to its Skype for Android application. The application no longer kills the Wi-Fi radio when Skype is turned on. Skype for Android can still only make phone calls via Verizon Wireless’ voice network. Voice calling does not work over Wi-Fi yet. However, with this minor update, users of Skype for Android can at least have the Wi-Fi radio on, where previously the Wi-Fi radio was shut off by Skype.

Motorola Earmarks $3.5 Billion for Handset Unit Spinoff

Motorola has said that it will set aside $3.5 billion for the handset and set-top box unit that it plans to spin off during the first quarter of 2011. Motorola will split its remaining businesses into two entities, with the phone and cable box business forming one, and its enterprise computing business forming the other. Motorola wants the freshly created mobile unit to have the best chance for success possible, so it will part ways with a $3.5 billion cash ..read more

Microsoft’s Bing Joins the Android Army

Microsoft today announced the availability of its Bing search application for Verizon Wireless’ lineup of Android phones for the first time. The application will be preloaded on all Verizon Android devices moving forward. It offers Bing Maps, the ability to save favorite businesses or searches, instant answers to everyday questions, such as local movie times, and voice-enabled search. The application is also available to Verizon’s existing Android devices in the Verizon channel in the Android Market. Bing for Android is ..read more

Verizon Wireless Refreshes ‘My Verizon’ Mobile App

Verizon Wireless today announced a new version of its My Verizon account management application for Android and BlackBerry smartphones. The refreshed application lets Verizon Android and BlackBerry customers: View minute, message and data usage; adjust allowance minutes on current plans; make one-time payments and set up and maintain auto-pay; view upgrade eligibility and contract end date; and manage Friends & Family numbers. It retains the original features, such as the ability to check balances, change features, reset passwords and use ..read more

HTC Droid Android 2.2 Froyo Releasing today

If you are Droid Incredible customers I am sure you are anxiously awaiting the launch of Froyo that is expected for today. But don’t believe every word you hear about it as you were badly disappointed when it was not released for HTC Droid last week.Verizon has proclaimed officially that the HTC Droid Incredible will (Read More)

Review: Dell Aero

The Dell Aero is a slim and light Android, though its custom Dell interface may have you thinking it’s a less-complicated feature phone.(follow link to read)

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