Last we heard, Chinese manufacturer K-Touch was quite busy showing off its Treasure V8 at this year’s Mobile World Congress. Now, the company’s taken the wraps off of its budget-friendly, TD-SCDMA T660 smartphone, marking its first intelligent handset on China Mobile. The device itself features a 4-inch, IPS display alongside a 5-megapixel rear shooter and [...]
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K-Touch joins China Mobile with Marvell-powered T660, waves a $160 price tag
Posted: 18th May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Budget, China Mobile, Chinese Manufacturer, Contracts, Crack, Email, Engadget, Fri, Handset, Mobile World, Nbsp, Price Tag, Rmb, Shooter, Smartphone, Td, V8, Waves, World Congress, Wraps
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Samsung mass-produces 4-gigabit LPDDR2 memory, aims to make 2GB a common sight in smartphones
Posted: 17th May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Chips, Engadget, Galaxy, Korean Company, Low Memory, Mainstream Product, Mobile Memory, Nbsp, Ntt Docomo, Power Memory, Ram, Samsung, Samsung Memory, Samsung Mobile, Smartphone, Smartphones, Trend
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Samsung started making 2GB low-power mobile memory last year, but as the 1GB-equipped phone you likely have in your hand shows, the chips weren’t built on a wide-enough scale to get much use. The Korean company is hoping to fix that now that it’s mass-producing 20-nanometer, 4-gigabit LPDDR2 RAM. Going to a smaller process than [...]
Xiaomi Phone gets a Youth Edition, a less powerful, cheaper alternative for students
Posted: 16th May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: China, Chinese Manufacturer, Counterpart, Dual Core, Engadget, Gadget, Handsets, Megapixel Camera, Nbsp, Reverence, Rom, Smartphone, Youth Edition, Yuan
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Many of you are already familiar with the Xiaomi Phone and its reverence in the MIUI community, but now the Chinese manufacturer has introduced a less expensive counterpart to the original, which is aptly known as the Youth Edition. Priced at 1,499 yuan ($237), this smartphone will sell for a full 500 yuan less than [...]
Gartner: mobile phone sales fell two percent last quarter, Samsung confirmed as numero uno
Posted: 16th May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: 1 Million, Asia Pacific Region, Decline, Engadget, Fingers, Gartner, Global Trade, Handsets, Hiccup, Idc, Last Quarter, Mobile Phone Market, Mobile Phone Sales, Nbsp, Padrone, Samsung, Segment, Slow Down, Smartphone, Trade In Mobile Phones
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Gartner’s latest dispatch reveals a wobbly global trade in mobile phones. Although our love of smartphones continued to blossom, with sales of that subcategory up nearly 45 percent, it wasn’t enough to stave off a two percent overall decline compared to the same quarter in 2011. A total of 419.1 million handsets were sold, representing [...]
NTT DoCoMo launching 19 new devices this summer, brings Galaxy S III to Japan
Posted: 16th May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Arrows, Core Devices, Deluge, Device Announcements, Engadget, Galaxy, Heavy Hitters, Hodgepodge, Lte, Megapixels, Ntt Docomo, Raku Raku, Smartphone, Smartphones, Smorgasbord, Source Link, Superstars, Tegra, Wifi Hotspot, Xperia
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If you aren’t already accustomed to Japan’s regular deluge of device announcements, brace yourself: NTT DoCoMo just stepped forward with 17 new phones, as well as a mobile WiFi hotspot and a tablet. Throw a stone at the pile of hardware, and you’re likely to strike something running Ice Cream Sandwich — with the exception [...]
New Baidu Cloud phone unveiled: Changhong H5018 with 300GB of cloud storage
Posted: 15th May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: 3mm, Baidu, Chassis, Chinese Search, Contract Price, D43, Dual Sim, Engadget, Flagship, Foxconn, Mandarin, Megapixel Camera, Price Tag, Search Functionality, Sina, Smartphone, Storage Space, Tencent, Wcdma, Yen
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That new Baidu Cloud phone we told you about last week? You’re looking right at it! Following the flagship Dell Streak Pro D43 (which was branded with what was then known as Baidu Yi aka 1.0 version of the platform), this Foxconn-built Changhong H5018 is the second smartphone to have its Android Gingerbread system enhanced [...]
More than 70 percent of mobile users pay little for apps, big spenders make up for us cheapskates
Posted: 15th May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Big Spenders, Birds, Crowd, Developers, Engadget, Games, Imagine, Lot, Median, Mobile Apps, Mobile Users, Nbsp, Skinflints, Smartphone, Term Strategy, World Researchers
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We know smartphone and tablet owners like to buy games. But if you go by a new ABI exploration of user habits, most of us aren’t buying much of anything. More than 70 percent of the crowd spends little to nothing on mobile apps, dragging down the average of $14 spent per month among paying [...]
New carrier Voyager Mobile starts May 15th, promises rewards for chatting it up
Posted: 14th May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Air Mileage, Aunt Ruth, Carryovers, Cellular Carriers, Countdown, Engadget, Gift Cards, Mileage, Mvno, Nbsp, Newcomer, Promises, Rewards, Smartphone, Sprint, Virtual Doors, Voice Text, Voyager, Wimax, Xprt
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Competition among US cellular carriers is about to get a bit fiercer with a fresh national network that will actively encourage using your phone rather than setting hard limits. Newcomer (and MVNO on Sprint’s network) Voyager Mobile is teasing a “frequent talker program” that will give all kinds of perks for the more talkative among [...]