Microsoft has revealed that it has a lot of catching up to do in the mobile phone world, with Steve Ballmer noting that the company lost a whole generation of users.
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Orange now offering new HTC Desire
Orange is aiming to deal with the low stock volumes of its HTC Desire - by offering it in a new black chassis. However, this new 'strategy' has led to another problem - it's also sold out, even at pre-order stage
India’s Rural Cell Movement: Can You Hear Me Now?
Last time I was in India I wrote about the amazing business model innovation that had allowed telecom operators in India to make money on a paltry $6 a month per average user. That compares to a desired average monthly payment of $50 or more in the U.S.
Vodafone UK confirms HTC Legend and Desire
Vodafone UK has finally confirmed that it will be bringing the HTC Legend and HTC Desire to the UK.
Intel and Orange sign new MeeGo agreement
Orange and Intel have signed a new agreement to bring Orange services to the tech firm's new MeeGo platform. Items such as Orange TV and Orange Maps will be brought to the new OS, which runs on Linux foundations, and will be used on devices running Intel's Atom processor.
Your view: Is HTC’s Desire more wanted than the iPhone?
HTC's Desire was announced at Mobile World Congress and immediately got the TechRadar office buzzing. 'Was this,' we asked, 'the phone that has finally made us want to leave our iPhones behind and move onto the wildly promising Android platform?' "We're mightily impressed with the HTC Desire, and can see that this is going to be a real iPhone contender in 2010, no matter what Steve Jobs brings out later this year," said Phone Editor Gareth Beavis in his Hands on: HTC Desire review .
Facebook’s Mobile Strategy Condensed Into 16 Minutes (Video)
Yesterday, in a session on ‘Mobile Communications 2.0′ at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Facebook’s VP of User Growth, Mobile and International Expansion Chamath Palihapitiya shared the social networking giant’s current mobile strategy and its plans for the future. It was in this session that the company for the first time talked about its latest product, Facebook Zero , which is essentially a stripped down, text-only version of the mobile website for the social networking service. The product aims to give mobile carriers a way to offer a basic Facebook experience to their subscribers free of charge and later convert those users into premium data service customers.
MWC 2010: Hands on: Samsung Beam i8520 review
Wow, it's here in the flesh at Mobile World Congress – Samsung's pico-projector phone. The tiny projector (check out the pics below) will show an image up to 50 inches wide and even though the model we saw had been projecting all day, it surprisingly wasn't too hot. Running Android 2.1 topped out with TouchWiz, the i8520-numbered handset features a 3.7-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen.
AIR For Android, And Adobe’s Plan To Deliver Apps Across All Mobile Devices
The bane of all mobile app developers is the need to rewrite the same app over and over again for different devices: the iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Palm Pre, Nokia, Windows Mobile. Adobe is positioning its Flash platform ( which includes the Flash player, AIR, developer tools, and media servers) as the write-once, deploy-anywhere solution for both the mobile Web and apps. Today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, it will announce plans to bring Adobe AIR to mobile devices, starting with Android and Blackberry phones
Samsung Wave launching Bada onto its very first handset at MWC
There's something nice and unequivocal about a huge billboard popping up in the host city of major tradeshow, and Samsung's Wave handset is making just such an entrance at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The previously unannounced handset will be running Samsung's brand new Bada platform , and appears to be a full touchscreen handset from the look of things. Enough touchscreen for a 3.3-inch 800 x 480 Super AMOLED display
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