by Pivot
Tag: Smartphone
Verizon Sets HTC Thunderbolt Launch, First 4G LTE Smartphone
Verizon announced plans for the March 17th launch of their first 4G LTE powered smartphone, the HTC Thunderbolt. The new smartphone will be priced at $249.99 with a new two year contract. The Android 2.2…
Empirix: Smartphone Users Are Frustrated, Blame Service Providers
A significant percentage of adult smartphone users experience service issues on a regular basis when using multimedia services, according to a survey commissioned by mobile broadband quality assurance solutions provider Empirix. Problems arise regularly when…
Android Overtakes BlackBerry, Apple iOS for Mobile OS Market Share
At 31.2% market share of the US market, Google’s Android is now tops in terms of mobile OS market share, according to the latest quarterly statistics compiled by comScore for its MobiLens service. Samsung topped…
Verizon Wireless to Offer Wireless Video Surveillance
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. and LISLE, Ill., March 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Verizon Wireless and Lextech Labs today announced a business service agreement that will enable users of Lextech Labs’ iRa C3 product to view live…
Sprint Launches First Windows Phone 7 Device
The HTC Arrive™ smartphone is the first device from Sprint based on Windows Phone 7. It offers an innovative design with a sliding full QWERTY keyboard and tilt-up display and provides an incredible experience leveraging well-known…
comScore: 63.2 Million Americans Own Smartphones
The number of Americans 13 years and older who own smartphones surged 60% year-over-year in Q4, reaching 63.2 million. As far as the operating systems which control smartphones, RIM’s Blackberry OS captured a 31.6% share…
Sprint Launches Dual-Screen Smartphone
NEW YORK (BUSINESS WIRE), February 07, 2011 – Sprint (NYSE: S) and Kyocera Communications Inc. today announced the first dual-touchscreen Android™ smartphone, Kyocera Echo™, exclusively from Sprint. This Android-powered device features two high-resolution 3.5-inch WVGA…
Cisco: Mobile Data Traffic Grew Four Times Faster Than Fixed in 2010
Sustained rapid growth of mobile Internet-enabled devices bringing in video/multimedia applications and services will drive exponential growth in worldwide mobile data traffic. Such traffic will reach 6.3 exabytes per month, representing an annual run rate…
comScore: Mobile Email Access Surging as Web-based Declines
Web-based email usage declined 6% in the U.S. in November 2010 as compared to a year ago while email access via mobile devices exhibited strong growth. Thirty percent of mobile users (70.1 million) accessed email…
Verizon CDMA iPhone: Is it Exclusive to Verizon?
Verizon held a press conference today outlining the long rumored news that the iPhone is coming to Verizon. The move breaks the AT&T iPhone monopoly which they had for a little over three years. The…
AT&T Outlines 4G Plans, Plans 20 Devices
Las Vegas, Nevada, January 05, 2011 – AT&T* today said it is building the nation’s most advanced mobile broadband experience by pursuing three key initiatives: NETWORK: AT&T operates the nation’s fastest mobile broadband network today,…
Three-Way Tie for Mobile OS Market Share Leadership
Statistically, it’s a three-way tie for mobile OS market share leadership, according to the latest research from The Nielsen Co., though Google’s Android has greater momentum among recent mobile phone acquirers. Android OS-based mobile phones…