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Cell phone study shows adverse testes results
Male cell phone users who carry their devices like 21st century six-shooters might want to reconsider where, exactly, they put them. A new study from the Center for Reproductive Medicine at the... Read more >>
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Verizon rolls out new Motorola handsets
As the holiday shopping season starts to gear up, Verizon has launched two new mid-range handsets from Motorola. The VU30... Read more >>
What, Nokia worry? Google's G1 not a concern
Nokia has adopted the 'What, me worry?' attitude of Mad Magazine's Alfred E. Newman when it comes to Google's mightily hyped G1 Android-based mobile device which it introduced with T-Mobile this... Read more >>
Cell phone study shows adverse testes results
Male cell phone users who carry their devices like 21st century six-shooters might want to reconsider where, exactly, they put them. A new study from the Center for Reproductive Medicine at the... Read more >>
U.S. smartphone market is tough to crack
Top-ranked handset vendors such as Motorola, Nokia and Samsung control 80 percent of the cell phone device market but have struggled to sell smartphones in the U.S. This has caused an open door for... Read more >>
19.6M Symbian OS handsets shipped in Q2
Symbian reported that 19.6 million handsets with its operating system were shipped in second quarter 2008, bringing the total cumulative number of Symbian handsets in the market to 225.9 million. ... Read more >>
New York Times: T-Mobile will be first with Android phone
The New York Times is reporting that T-Mobile USA will be the first operator to offer a mobile phone based on Google's Android platform. The newspaper, citing sources briefed on the company's plans,... Read more >>
Mobile phone sales will reach 1.28B in 2008
Research firm Gartner says that worldwide mobile phone sales will top 1.28 billion units in 2008, an 11 percent increase over last year. Handset sales reached 294.3 million in first quarter 2008 and... Read more >>
Report: Handset shipments topped 287M in Q2
Strategy Analytics says that global mobile handset shipments grew 15 percent year-over-year to reach 297 million in second quarter 2008. Analyst Bonny Joy says that despite the economic gloom,... Read more >>
Motorola ships 28.1 million handsets in 2Q
Motorola surprised analysts by posting a second-quarter net income of $4 million, up from a net loss of $28 million a year ago. Revenue fell 7.4 percent to $8.08 billion and the company expects its... Read more >>
Samsung ships 45.7M phones in 2Q
Samsung, the No. 2 maker of cell phones, is feeling the pressure of the economic slowdown. The company reported second quarter earnings of $2.1 billion, up 51 percent over the same quarter a year ago... Read more >>
