Beating the iPhone to market seems to be the goal for device makers this week, with Samsung, Huawei and Motorola all launching new devices ahead of Tuesday's expected iPhone launch.
This week Motorola Mobility unveiled its newest Moto X smartphone. The 5.2-inch phone is just...
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades and enjoy the memories!
Sprint Nextel births new brand
Sprint Nextel Corp. kicked...
Intel has struggled to find its footing with mobile processors, but the chip giant is determined to make headway in the mobile connectivity market. Its modem family has a new member in the XMM6255, which Intel calls the world's smallest standalone 3G modem. Rather...
I had the opportunity this week to speak with Ford about its claimed first ever automotive original equipment manufacturer-led developer conference set to take place Sept. 8-11 in Las Vegas. This is an important move as getting into vehicles isn’t easy for application developers.
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Problems with the backlight for the display on Apple's upcoming iPhone reportedly stopped production during part of June and July. That does not mean that Apple won't be ready to announce a new iPhone at its Sept. 9 media event, but it could mean...
A new survey on wireless customer satisfaction from J.D. Power shows that customers are happier with their devices when they receive in-store demonstrations of features.
The survey was based on responses from thousands of wireless customers in the first half of this year, among whom 58%...
Mobile Minute:
Microsoft's Nokia is apparently taking a high-low strategy when it comes to mobile phones. The company is NOT exiting the basic mobile phone business, despite last month's announcement that "all Mobile Phones-related services and enablers are planned to move into maintenance mode, effective...
Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience at an operator, software and hardware vendors and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be sharing those opinions along...
Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career the telecom, IT and security. Having experience at an operator, software and hardware vendors and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. ...
It's a question that everyone asks. Your phone battery seems like it needs to be charged every day or even more frequently as it gets older.
But why does this happen? It appears as if researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy have finally found an...
With rare bipartisan support, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would allow consumers to unlock their cellphones, making it easier to switch carriers and keep their device. President Obama is expected to sign the "Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act” soon....
As an industry we seem to focus on higher bandwidth enabling us to go fast to consume more. More bandwidth, more content, more data ... more, more, more. But, what about areas that have less and need to do less. Africa is a place...
Some big changes could be in the cards for the mobile payment market.
First, the historically NFC-reticent Apple is rumored to be in talks with credit card companies about creating its own mobile wallet. And some say the wallet feature may come loaded on the next...
International demand for the iPhone led to another strong quarter for Apple. The company posted $37.4 billion in revenue and a net profit of $7.7 billion for its third quarter ending on June 28. The results both were increases from the same quarter last...
The hacker nicknamed “NerveGas,” also known as the forensic scientist Jonathan Zdziarski, claims to have identified back doors, attack points and surveillance mechanisms running on all Apple iOS devices. Zdziarski, who was a development team member on many of the early iOS jailbreaks, recently detailed...
While Corning's Gorilla Glass is used for the screens of more than 1.5 billion devices worldwide, a new challenger is coming into view: a synthetic sapphire crystal screen.
Apple is reportedly making a synthetic sapphire display for its new iPhone 6 expected to be released this...
Microsoft’s latest attempt to turn around its flailing mobile operations is set to cost 18,000 employees their jobs, with most of those cuts coming from its recently acquired Nokia handset division.
The computer software giant announced today that its “restructuring plan” was designed to “simplify...
Connected Car Trends
Google recently announced its entry into the connected car market with Android Auto, a new competitor to Apple's CarPlay solution. Many auto makers have already committed to one or both of the companies for head unit systems – but will auto makers have...
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades and enjoy the memories!
Razr team takes bow, hints at secret sauce
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Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades and enjoy the memories!
Activation may prove challenge to 3G iPhone launch:...
With Apple expected to announce new iPhone models in the coming weeks, wireless carriers and retailers have begun to cut pricing and expand the reach on current models in a move to trim inventory.
T-Mobile US announced that it would be expanding its iPhone models...
As we watch the story unfold related to connected cars and consider how operators will play in this scenario, it’s also interesting to watch the telecom equipment vendor movements in this space. This week I met with Ericsson to better understand their strategy in...
It seems the telecom industry does this on a regular basis. We come up with an idea, and we talk about if for years and it still seems to be some unreachable goal in the future. Then we change the name to a more...
It seems as though this is something you would never hear from a car maker, especially a luxury brand like BMW, but this is exactly what they said at the keynote of Connected Cars 2014.
Seeing a car maker embrace the customer experience beyond the...
