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By Jharma, on May 16th, 2012% 
Shipments of HTC’s Evo 4G LTE and HTC One X were delayed by the International Trade Commission for investations, some shipments were held back. The units were the first devices to face delay by the customs to investation about the patent infringement case filed by Apple.
Apple won several exclusion order to stop the shipments of HTC Android devices at the ITC on December 2011. The commission discovered that Android’s browser and messaging application infringed the patent #5946647 by Apple – this patent covers the convertion of email addresses and phone numbers into links that opens up . . . → Read More: ITC Orders Customs to Delay Shipments of HTC Phones
By Jharma, on May 1st, 2012% 
LG Electronics, one of the smartphone makers, has ceased its operation of producing Windows Phone Units for now and will focus more on phones running on Android, based on the reports.
Reported by Korea Herald on Monday, the South-Korea based company will back off from producing phones on Windows platform but still have plans to continue the studies and developments on the Microsoft OS, did not indicate though if this is because of the increasing demand on Android based phones or not.
Optimus 7, as well as other handsets are based on Windows Phone 7.
LG has mentioned that . . . → Read More: LG Halts Production of Windows Phone to Focus on Android Phones
By Jharma, on April 30th, 2012% 
As the tech market gets wider and wider, market shares also soars high but some company seems not happy with the results.
Smartphone shipments by Samsung increased over the same period in 2011, letting it simply take hold of the biggest share of the global market, while Nokia’s share dramatically plummeted as their smartphones are not clicking to the mass and only playing in the low end, according to a market analyst, while another market analyst rated the South-Korea-based company as the top or the no. 1 on the cellphone market.
In the first quarter of 2011, . . . → Read More: Samsung Gets the Highest Market Share in the First Quarter of 2012
By Jharma, on April 25th, 2012% 
The Samsung Galaxy Note – a confusing device that others find it as a tablet and some says it’s a smartphone – is presently limited to the wireless carrier AT&T, but there are reports running across the internet that the confusing device is extending to a competitor wireless carrier T-Mobile.
The very first hint stems from a Wi-Fi certification that appeared for the Samsung unit with model no . SGH-T879. As for company standards, all Samsung products carried by T-Mobile uses the model formula SGH-Txx9.
This specific model is additionally detailed with a 800 x 1280 screen . . . → Read More: Samsung Galaxy Note will be Available in T-Mobile?
By Jharma, on April 17th, 2012% 
A new Android-running phone is taking on the road against the giants. It looks good, performance is nice according to a couple of reviews, seems like this one is going to make a name too.
The LG Viper is Sprint’s 1st LTE smartphone, though the phone is a bit early to take on the game: Sprint has not presented its 4G LTE network yet. The inexpensive LG Viper features several high-quality specifications for the price despite getting stuck with 3G speeds. The dual-core processor dealt with everything without any problems, the 5-mp camera takes great . . . → Read More: LG Viper 4g LTE
By Jharma, on April 2nd, 2012% 
As competition of smartphone gets tougher, RIM decided to slash down the price of their phones to get atleast get back what they lost in the market.
Research in Motion (RIM), the manufacturer of BlackBerry, is currently thinking about CDMA units to increase its income in India and will relaunch its Curve 8530 model at Rs 11,990, that’s about 12% lower from the original price. This unit is actually the CDMA version of Blackberry’s GSM device Curve 8520.
“Smartphones are getting popular day by day, but a majority of these are on GSM . . . → Read More: RIM Cuts Down Price of BlackBerry Curve 8530
By Jharma, on March 26th, 2012% 
Apps – the main thing that keeps the smartphones like iPhone and Google’s Android phones alive and dominate the market. This is now the main challenge or let’s say the biggest challenge for the competitors Nokia and Microsoft, who are trying to take back the marketshare from the big players who are enjoying the top spot.
And thus far, things are not running smoothly for the contenders and their best hand Windows Phone platform.
Apps, are compact pieces of software which do helpful or entertaining stuff on phones and tablet PC’s. The large . . . → Read More: Windows Phone Platform Faces App Problem
By Jharma, on March 19th, 2012% 
China may become the world’s biggest smartphone market in 2012, according to the sales they made of low-priced handsets, while Brazil and India will follow the title by 2016, based on a research company from the U.S.
China surpassed the smartphone deliveries in the US for two straight quarters in the second half of 2011, they will hold that impetus in this year and get ranking as the leading smartphone marketplace for the whole year of 2012, according to a forecast made by IDC or International Data Corp.
China is predicted to acquire . . . → Read More: China as the Smartphone Market Leader
By Jharma, on March 13th, 2012% 
Samsung appears to have pushed the Ice Scream Sandwich update – finally!
Based on the latest blog post from the official Samsung Tomorrow blog, the South Korea-based electronics giant has finally started to release their Ice Cream Sandwich update to the Galaxy S II units around the world.
And knowning that, Galaxy S II users started once more to experience the love. Or perhaps, the majority of them does. The update at issue is intended for worldwide spec Galaxy S II units, so wireless carrier users in the U.S. – AT&T/T-Mobile Galaxy S . . . → Read More: Samsung Pushed Ice Scream Sandwich Update – Finally!
By Jharma, on March 12th, 2012% 
The popular photo-sharing app, Instagram, that’s taken a certain lead on the Apple’s iOS, stated it has exceeded 27 million users registered today during the SXSW Interactive conference held in Austin, Texas.
Kevin Systrom, the co-founder, did not reveal active users daily throughout his interview with Alexia Tsotsis, an editor in TechCrunch. Yet he said all of the registered users who’ve been involved in the a week ago, 67% of those utilized the application yesterday.
“It’s Facebook-level engagement that we’re seeing,” Kevin Systrom said in the interview.
He did not actually . . . → Read More: Instagram Hits 27M Registered Users and will Release the Android App Soon
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