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August 13, 2010

Rethink: LG on smartphone offensive

Filed under: Android,Daily News,LG,Mobile Apps and Content,Public,Windows Phone 7,mobile phones,smartphones — fmmonteverde @ 7:06 am

LG Electronics aims to sell 6 million smartphones this year, and launch 15 Android models to help make up for its severe market lag behind key rivals like Samsung and HTC.

Some believes LG’s target is ambitious – its recently announced Q2 results revealed very limited smartphone sales, and so there will be intense pressures on the second half of the year and new m

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July 1, 2010

Microsoft kills off Kin

Filed under: Courier,Daily News,Kin,Microsoft,Mobile Apps and Content,Public,Vodafone Australia,Windows Phone 7,Zune,mobile phones — fmmonteverde @ 6:09 am

Microsoft has pulled the plug on its latest foray into devices, the Kin phone.

The company confirmed yesterday it would cancel its European launch, scheduled for October, after poor early sales of the device.

The Kin is sold by Vodafone in Australia, but has not been launched elsewhere in Asia-Pacific.

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March 11, 2010

Cellcos get WAC on OS fragmentation

Filed under: Android,App Store,Bada,Google,Intel,MeeGo,Microsoft,Mobile Apps and Content,Mobile OS,Nokia,Opinion,Samsung,Symbian,Tanner,TelecomAsia,WAC,Windows Phone 7,mobile phones — galaxiav @ 8:52 pm

Another year, another Mobile World Congress, and if we learned anything this year, it’s this: everyone is concerned about the fragmentation of device platforms.

Except for the actual platform developers, of course. A number of them made it quite clear that whatever you think about platform proliferation, they’re not going anywhere.

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February 19, 2010

THE WRAP: Mobile gets the platform blues

Filed under: Bharti,Daily News,Fixed Access,Google,MeeGo,Mobile Apps and Content,Mobile World Congress,Operator Services,Public,Skype,Verizon,Windows Phone 7,Wireless Access,Zain — fmmonteverde @ 6:09 am

This week the mobile industry went to Barcelona and got tangled up in platforms.

Microsoft scrapped its OS platform and announced another, the Windows Phone 7.

Nokia and Intel promised to merge their two Linux platforms – Maemo a

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February 17, 2010

Microsoft takes on iPhone with WinPhone 7

Filed under: AnalystWire,MWC2010,Microsoft,Mobile Apps and Content,Mobile OS,Mobile World Congress,Windows Phone 7,Zune,mobile phones — root @ 6:55 am

Ovum The much anticipated launch of Windows Mobile 7 – to be officially named Windows Phone OS 7.0 – at Mobile World Congress marks a sea change in Microsoft’s strategy towards the mobile phone market, with the Redmond software giant finally flexing its service integration m

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