Taiwanese handset maker HTC announces the release of another Android-based smartphone.
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Good luck getting a BlackBerry Storm anytime soon. Many Verizon Wireless stores by midday had sold through their inventory of the much-anticipated mobile phone.
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Credit crunch will postpone U.S. carrier plans to build new networks friendly to European phone makers while Apple, RIM, and even Motorola are at the border.
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Despite the economic downturn, there were 40 million smartphones shipped in the third quarter of 2008, while Apple, RIM, and HTC gained ground on Nokia.
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Analyst says the G1 has flaws that are to be expected from version 1.0 of its Android-based operating system.
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Windows Mobile phone maker could step out of the shadows and onto center stage if the excitement over Google’s G1 open-source phone persists. But it may also cost HTC some Windows Mobile business.
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RIM cracks the consumer high end, but will U.S. and European holiday shoppers choose this phone over the iPhone, the G1, or the Nokia 5800?
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Unveiling was surprisingly unremarkable and G1’s features, which were leaked weeks ago, are hardly unique.
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Analyst says persistent problems may be embedded in the iPhone’s Infineon chips and may require a hardware upgrade for a fix.
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Gartner reports first-half global smartphone sales grew more slowly than in 2007. But expect a pickup in fall.
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs' iPhone Apps store, seeded with Kleiner Perkins' $100 million iFund, isn't the only game in town for developers. Search king Google names 20 developers recipients of funding for its Android applications competition. Winning applications for the open-source mobile operating system include cab search, carbon footprint tracking, and price comparison via photo of bar codes.
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Taiwan’s High Tech Computer Corp. gets FCC approval for its proposed Dream phone.
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The search king introduces a Linux-based mobile operating system from Android, a startup Google acquired in 2005, and an alliance of 34 mobile companies.
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Portal provider signs deal with HTC to place its software on Windows-based phones.
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Verizon Wireless, Modeo test interest in mobile TV.
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Verizon Wireless and Crown Castle try to upstage each other but leave a thick vapor trail.
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British Telecom and Virgin Mobile introduce a mobile TV service in the U.K. using Microsoft-enabled cell phones.
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The software giant tries to attract more customers, but despite legal concerns, the CrackBerry still rules mobile email market.
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The Japanese carrier will sell some Windows Mobile-based cell phone after long favoring the Linux OS.
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U.S. carrier releases its first house-brand smartphone and dials Microsoft’s mobile OS.
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