Google has made it official, the last batch of Nexus One phones are being sold, and then the entire brand is dead. Basically, the HTC made phone never really got traction in the market place, shipping only about 135,000 units. Google’s choice to go with direct sales pretty much seems to be the culprit, keeping [...]

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I found this article from Reuters about the move to lower price smart phones, and found it to be very interesting, especially as it speaks about ZTE, a phone company from China that hasn’t been seen as much under it’s own name in the west. They are aiming for a $100 – $150 smart phone, [...]

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Microsoft did Monday what has been speculated a month ago about the Pink phone, releasing the brand new Kin 1 and Kin 2 phones into the marketplace. The Kin 1 is what was pictures last month as the Pink phone, and the Kin 2 is a more traditional slider style phone with a few twists. [...]

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According this story at Gizmodo, as well as writeups at ARS Technica, it looks like Microsoft is going to hit the market with Verizon on a new mobile phone called the Pink. I have to say that Microsoft isn’t exactly great on names, adding Pink to Zune in their list of 4 letter forgettable. While [...]

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Fast growing cell phone manufacture HTC is hedging their bets and making sure they don’t miss either side of the phone markets. To that end, they announced that they will be a supporter of the new Microsoft Windows 7 Mobile, while continuing to build and sell many Google Android phones. I would appear to be [...]

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Even as overall sales for mobile phones remained flat for the third quarter, smartphone sales continue to show double digit growth—as they have ever since the market was redefined by Apple’s iPhone. Apple’s share of the market continues to climb and is edging close to rival RIM, while market leader Nokia continues its slow decline [...]

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This has got to be one of the weirdest lawsuits I have seen in a while. AT&T and Apple have been running Iphone ads for a while with the tag “There’s an App for that”. Well, Verizon recently started to roll out some new 3G phones, and decides to show how their network has superior [...]

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Sony Ericsson XPERIA™ X10 introduces an open and integrated world of social media, communication and entertainment * XPERIA™ X10 is the flagship phone in a family of phones coming to market during the first half of 2010. The XPERIA™ X10 will be available in Q1 2010 * New UX (user experience) platform lets consumers organise [...]

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The arrival of the Iphone in the Chinese market hasn’t hit exactly with the same fervor that saw it’s release in other countries, according to this story. There are any number of reasons, including that the China Iphone has no WAN support, and is facing stiff competition from grey market phones from places like Hong [...]

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While sales of standard handsets continues to slip, The Tech Herald reports that smartphone sales remained on track in Q2. Nokia and Apple saw singificant increases, and HTC has already started to see good results on it’s Androud baed phones, such as the HTC Magic, recently released into the Canadian market to compete directly with [...]

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