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Microsoft Corp launched two new phones (Kin one and Kin two) aimed at young people, marking a fresh assault on the low end of the growing smartphone market, where BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd and Apple Inc now dominate.
“Kin is an interesting attempt to target the 15 to 25 market,” said Ross Rubin, consumer electronics and wireless industry analyst at market research firm NPD Group.
Monitise, the leader in global mobile banking and payments, has beaten off fierce competition to be short listed for the Best Mobile Money Service at the 2010 GSMA Global Mobile Awards.
The winners of the mobile industry’s leading annual awards will be announced at a ceremony during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on 16th February 2010.
Well over 1.3 million bank customers in the UK and in the USA are already using Monitise’s ser-vices to check their account balance, set up and receive text alerts, transfer money and pay bills on their mobile phones in seconds.
We are sure you know that Gigabyte is know for making PC components like motherboards and server racks. However, little is known about the company’s mobile phone section, which boasts of a couple of capable smartphones.
For those unaware, Gigabyte owns the GSmart range of cellphones that includes handsets like the GSmart MS820, MW702 and MW700. All these phones are touchscreen Windows Mobile PDA phones. All of them were announced at the CES 2009 and are actually available in India.
The official images of Blackberry Bold 9700 are circulating over the web. The Blackberry Bold 9700 carries a codename Onyx and is believed to soon enter the smartphone market.
According to IntoMobile, the Blackberry smartphone is apparently receiving the finishing touches. Apparently, CIO received the press images and also a few details of the BlackBerry Bold 9700. Reportedly, the Bold 9700 presents a premium experience and design with a high-gloss black finish and leather grain detail on the rear side. The smartphone offers high-speed 3G Web browsing, visual voicemail as well as support for corporate and personal e-mail options.
Palm is all set to announce its second WebOS based device later this week. The device in question is none other than the Palm Pixie, also known as the EOS, when we had first heard about its existence earlier this year.
The Pixie will be announced at the forthcoming New York Fashion Week for reasons best known to Palm. The Pixie will be the affordable cousin to the Palm Pre and will be priced at a much lower rate as compared with the Pre.
Telecom entity Motorola today posted a profit of $26 million for the second quarter ended June 30, 2009, even as revenues plunged. The company, which is facing a tough business scenario, had a profit of $4 million in the year-ago period, it said in a statement today. Second quarter revenues tumbled to $5.5 million, a fall of 32 per cent from $8 billion in the comparable period last year.
Bangladesh is trialling a text message service to warn people of natural disasters, including floods and cyclones, a government official said on Wednesday.
Disaster Management Bureau spokesman Syed Ashraf said the service would be piloted for six months in the southeastern districts of Cox’s Bazar, where cyclones frequently hit, and Sirajganj in the north, prone to flooding.
After a six-month long wait, Palm fans can finally abreast themselves with the much anticipated smartphone from the company — the Palm Pre.
The phone was first seen at the CES in January; after a string of rumor launch dates. Now, it has been officially launched on June 6. It will be available via Sprint Nextel, Palm’s official network carrier in U.S.
Telecoms group Bharti Airtel has become the first Indian sponsor of Manchester United after signing a five-year deal with the English and European Champions.
The agreement, the value of which was not disclosed, will enable Airtel to offer their mobile customers video clips of the club’s games and other United-related content.
The good times for Research In Motion (RIM) continue with recent news that the BlackBerry Curve has managed to outsell the Apple iPhone in the first quarter of 2009, in U.S.
That, incidentally, makes the BlackBerry Curve the best selling smartphone in U.S. If that wasn’t enough, RIM dominated the smartphones chart with as many as three handsets finding place in the coveted top 5 largest selling phones list there. All this came with the added satisfaction of “beating” the iPhone 3G and relegating it to the second spot. Two other BlackBerry phones; the Storm and the Pearl took the third and fourth spot respectively. T-Mobile’s G1 managed to come in at a respectable fifth position.
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