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The World’s Largest Mobile Manufacturer from Finland Nokia Corp. has another successive net loss in the third quarter; although it was better than the earlier quarter and all the credit goes to low end mobile phones. After Apple and Samsung taking over the Smartphone market the other companies are struggling hard to push their line of smartphones sales. Nokia has been one the dominant companies and held the top spot in making mobile phones for more than a decade, but since two quarters the company has been falling down and down with sales. But this quarter was better than the last after the shares jumped over 8%, as results highlighted an increase in shipments of its cheaper feature phones owing to strong sales of dual-SIM handsets, which allow users to have multiple phone numbers. Nokia shipped 89.8 million feature phones in the quarter, up 8% from a year earlier.

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Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest version of Android, is likely to ease the fragmentation of the operating system, some device executives said on Thursday. Google unveiled Ice Cream Sandwich last month in the Galaxy Nexus, set to go on sale this month in the U.S., Europe and Asia. The new OS achieves much of what device makers have been trying to achieve by augmenting earlier Android releases on their own, which has created differences among versions on the market, according to some speakers on a panel at the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco. Device makers and carriers have customized Android for their own purposes since it was introduced in 2007.

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HTC Corp. edged out Samsung Electronics Co. to become the largest smartphone vendor in the U.S., capitalizing on the Android platform’s popularity and a lull in demand for iPhones to overtake Apple Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd. A 10 percentage-point jump in share from a year earlier gave Taoyuan, Taiwan-based HTC 24 percent of the world’s largest smartphone market in the third quarter, ahead of Samsung’s 21 percent, Palo Alto, California-based researcher Canalys said in a statement yesterday. Apple fell to third at 20 percent while RIM, maker of the BlackBerry, had 9 percent. HTC, which made the world’s first phone using Google Inc.’s Android in 2008, benefited from strong relationships with U.S. carriers and made different models for each operator. Apple’s iPhone 4S and new devices from Suwon, South Korea-based Samsung may help the two global smartphone leaders gain share in the U.S. this quarter as HTC forecasts its first shipment decline in almost two years.

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RIM is betting the future of its smartphone, tablet, and embedded systems on a new operating system: BBX. But there’s no word when it’ll be available, or what devices it will support. At its BlackBerry DevCon Americas conference in San Francisco, Canada’s Research in Motion officially announced BBX, an new single operating system RIM says will run on all its hardware platforms: smartphones, tablets, and embedded systems. RIM is touting BBX as combining the best elements of its existing BlackBerry OS with the best of QNX (which powers the PlayBook tablet), combined with cloud service capabilities and an emphasis on high-performance HTML5 development. DevCon being a developer conference, RIM also rolled out a bunch of tools for BlackBerry developers, including the BlackBerry Runtime for Android apps on the PlayBook as part of a beta of PlayBook OS 2.0. The upshot is that PlayBook users may soon begin to tap into the very large (and fast-growing) world of Android apps. What is BBX, how is it distinct from RIM’s previous operating systems, and — perhaps most importantly — will it help RIM recover market share and profits lost to the likes of Android and Apple’s iOS?

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Presenting the brightest screen in its class, the new Nokia 701 has a 3.5 inch ClearBlack display which makes it Nokia’s brightest smartphone ever launched. It’s the touchscreen display that stands out giving it an elegant and stylish look. The ClearBlack display creates a great combination of brightness and contrast making it perfect for indoor and outdoor use. It is a sleek and slim smartphone with active noise cancellation for the clearest sound quality making it perfect for people looking for daily phone efficiency. Nokia 701 is NFC enabled and runs on the latest Symbian upgrade; Symbian Belle. NFC technology has some remarkable peer-to-peer communication capabilities, which allows transfer of information by simply bringing two phones close and tapping each other.

This is a tremendously convenient feature for individuals uncomfortable with technology and find Bluetooth and transfer information like business cards and music time consuming and cumbersome. NFC also has a reader which allows an NFC enabled device to upload and download any information that is on an electronic NFC enabled board. Nokia 701 is equipped with a powerful 1Ghz processor and a 8 MP full focus camera with dual LED flash, 2 X digital zoom and HD video capture. Additionally, it has an 8GB internal memory which is expandable upto 40GB with a 32GB microSD card. Available in colours dark steel and light sliver, the Nokia 701 is a classy smartphones for people looking for simplicity and the latest technology in their mobiles.

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The LG DoublePlay has snuck online a couple of times in the past week, but today T-Mobile completed the DoublePlay news triple play by officially announcing the Android-powered slider. As you could probably tell by the image above, the DoublePlay not only has a main 3.5-inch touchscreen on its face, but also a second 2-inch touch panel below. The dual displays can work separately or in conjunction with one another,  allowing the user to complete several tasks at once. Other specs include a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 5-megapixel camera with LED flash, 720p video capture, T-Mobile 4G connectivity, and Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Expect the LG DoublePlay to hit T-Mobile in time for the holidays for an undisclosed price. The DoublePlay isn’t the first Android phone we’ve seen with a dual touchscreen layout, but what makes LG and T-Mobile’s offering different is that it’s got a physical keyboard for those times that you absolutely, positively need the tactility that only a hardware QWERTY can provide.

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Still there are speculations about the Apple iPhone 5 and now called it is going to appear as a codename in Apple’s internal inventory system, as the iPhone N94. People aren’t ready to wait for another 24 hours to get the glimpse on the next generation iPhone. There new rumors on the web that the latest iDevice 5 will be called iPhone N94. This is something new looking at the previous versions about the next Apple iSmartphone. First it was iPhone 5, the iPhone 5 Standard and Pro versions, iPhone 5 mini, iPhone 4S and now something new.

The specs for this new iPhone N94 has been given that it will carry Apple’s dual-core A5 processor, 1GB of RAM, Nuance Dictation speech-to-text, 8 Megapixel camera, voice recognition features and it will come out in three versions 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB and some of them say it will be 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB capacities. Don’t forget that recently there was a new dish which stated the new iDevice would be called iPhone N90A. We know that everyone is keen to find out what is the next generation Apple iSmartphone is going look like and what functions and features would be like.

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If you have always believed that big was good, Nokia gives you a reason to rethink. The new Nokia 700 is not only Nokia’s most compact smartphone in the Symbian range, it is the most compact NFC enabled touch monoblock smartphone in the world. Incorporated with the single-tap NFC capabilities, sharing files and pairing devices have never been easier with the Nokia 700. NFC technology has some remarkable peer-to-peer communication capabilities, which allows transfer of information by simply bringing two phones close and tapping each other. This is a tremendously convenient feature for individuals uncomfortable with technology and find Bluetooth and transfer information like business cards and music time consuming and cumbersome. NFC also has a reader which allows an NFC enabled device to upload and download any information that is on an electronic NFC enabled board.

The phones comes with a powerful 1 Ghz processor with a 3.2 AMOLED ClearBlack display, 2GB of internal memory (expandable upto 32GB), HD video capture and a 5MP full focus camera making it highly desirable for people looking for a device which is small but powerfully packed with features.  The Nokia 700, based on the latest Symbian upgrade Belle, is also Nokia’s most eco-friendly smartphone. With an all new UI, long battery life, extensive use of eco-friendly materials and features to minimize battery consumption, the Nokia 700 is the perfect smartphone for any environmentally-conscious smartphone user. It will be available in colours black, white and coral-black.

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Motorola has had its share of ups and downs this year, with fabulous showstoppers in the beginning of the year with the Motorola Atrix 4G and the Motorola Xoom, and a rather long lull following that. We were promised the Droid Bionic in January, but only managed to get our hands on it nine months later. In the meantime, Motorola did release the Photon 4G, which we admire for its dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 processor and 4G speeds in the form of Sprint’s WiMax. Yet, when the Droid Bionic was released, we definitely thought it was worth the wait. It, too, has a dual-core processor, but it has 4G in the form of Verizon’s blazing-fast LTE. The two phones are very similar in terms of features, but the design and performance differences certainly show. We pit the two against each other to see which sibling emerges victorious.

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Nokia’s loudest entertainment smartphone at 106 phons is a music lover’s dream. It comes with built-in FM radio antenna which means you can finally listen to radio without having to use headphones. The smartphone has NFC technology incorporated into it which allows content to be shared between devices with a single tap. It also allows the Nokia 600 smartphone to pair with NFC-enabled mobile accessories such as speakers, Bluetooth headphones and headsets.  NFC technology has some remarkable peer-to-peer communication capabilities, which allows transfer of information by simply bringing two phones close and tapping each other. This is a tremendously convenient feature for individuals uncomfortable with technology and find Bluetooth and transfer information like business cards and music time consuming and cumbersome.

NFC also has a reader which allows an NFC enabled device to upload and download any information that is on an electronic NFC enabled board.  The Nokia 600 comes with a 1 GHz processor; an all new UI,  5MP full focus camera with LED flash, HD video capture and 2GB of internal memory with ability to increase to 34GB using a 32GB microSD card. An FM transmitter enables the user to broadcast music from the phone to any FM radio. Finally, the phone has 60 hours of music playback time, an incredibly powerful internal loudspeaker and the ability to stream music wirelessly to NFC-enabled accessories. The device will be available in colours black, white and white lime. Ideal for youngsters looking for smartphones with the best quality sound and value for money, the Nokia 600 smartphone delivers big sound and a great personality in a small package.

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For Android users and those who are ready to jump ship (or jump into) the Google mobile operating system at 4G speeds, there’s a relatively low-cost smartphone coming your way: the under-$100 Pantech Breakout. Coming out Thursday (Sept.22), it’ll be available through Verizon Wireless for $99.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement. As is common practice with so many companies now, the rebate will come in the form of a debit card to be used anywhere you’d normally use one. In contrast, the recently released dual-core Motorola Droid Bionic retails for $299.99.  The phone is being promoted as a 4G/Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)/one gigahertz processor-powered (non-Droid) device with download speeds of 5 to 12 Mbps and upload speeds of 2 to 5 Mbps in 4G mobile broadband coverage areas. If you have one of these, you may very well be the life of the online party when others can’t get a fix on the free Wi-Fi: the Breakout can also serve as a 4G LTE mobile hotspot that can support up to 10 Wi-Fi devices.  It also comes with a sizable, 4-inch touchscreen and pre-loaded with YouTube, Google Maps and a host of other Google products. Apps and other downloads should be able to fit on its 8 GB pre-installed microSD card. Its on-screen QWERTY keyboard also incorporate Swype, so you can write your texts in fluid lines vs. tapping. It may not be for everyone, but if you get the hang of it, it can prove addictive. Like any good smartphone, the Breakout comes with a camera — two, in fact. The rear-facing 5-megapixel one can capture HD video (up to 720p), while the front-facing camera can do still shots and be used for on-the-go video chats.  Safer, hands-free talking will also be easy with Bluetooth 3.0.  Customers who buy a Pantech Breakout smartphone will need to subscribe to a Verizon Wireless Nationwide Talk plan beginning at $39.99 for monthly access and a smartphone data package starting at $30 monthly access for 2 GB of data.

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LG, the company author of the first dual-core Android smartphone, the Optimus 2x, is reportedly ready to launch a new flagship Android phone this year “LG LU+” or LU6200. The device is not yet hitting the LG press release, so this new rumored phone should be taken with a grain of salt. The so-called LG LU6200 will include top-end specs that will compete against the most popular Samsung phone to date, the Samsung Galaxy S II or S2. The new LG Android phone will feature the 4.5-inch touchscreen with the resolution of 1280 x 720 and the phone will reportedly use the AH-IPS display technology. The Advanced High Performance In-Plane Switching screen (AH-IPS) of LG has a better color accuracy than AMOLED, the screen technology being used by Samsung.

It will also feature the pixel density of 329ppi, the same pixel density being used by Apple’s iPhone 4′s Retina screen. It is also worth mentioning that the screen resolution of the iPhone 4 is 640 x 960, so we’re very excited to see the 329ppi on a 4.5-inch screen. LG’s answer to the Samsung Galaxy S II be powered by a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset, 1GB of RAM and the Adreno 220 GPU. The LG LU6200 will include NFC or Near Field Communication, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi. The LG Android phone can also shoot HD videos with the primary 8-megapixel camera and a front-facing 1.3-megapixel camera. The device weighs 123g only, and will feature the thin profile of 10.5mm.

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The Samsung Galaxy S II, which went on sale through Sprint, just might be the nicest smartphone currently available running Google’s Android operating system. The Galaxy S II’s biggest rival to the title of king of the Androids? That would be the Motorola Droid Bionic, in my opinion. I’ve tested and used both of the 4G handsets, and although the Droid Bionic feels  like a more premium, upscale product than the Galaxy S II, in terms of materials and finishes used, the Bionic also is a bit thicker, heavier and more expensive. The Droid Bionic sells for $300 on a two-year contract exclusively through Verizon Wireless.

The Galaxy S II sells for $200 on a two-year contract through Sprint and will soon launch on T-Mobile and AT&T. Both the Droid Bionic and the Galaxy S II have similar specs with dual-core processors, 16 gigabytes of on-board storage, 8-megapixel cameras and nice, large touch displays. The Samsung Galaxy S II also is considered by many to be the largest threat at this point to the Apple iPhone 4. Want proof? Apple is suing Samsung in the U.S., Europe and Asia in an attempt to get the Galaxy S II stripped for store shelves, alleging patent infringement.

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Here we go with an interesting rumors regarding Apple’s fifth-generation iPhone, where in some accessory makers are banking on a totally redesigned look for Apple iPhone 5, nevertheless time will enlighten whether their projections hit from real inside information or are merely tales. One of the third-party accessory makers launched a new section in its website noting that Apple’s fifth-generation iPhone will have a totally different form factor from the iPhone 4, Equipped with new design for iPhone 5 with wider and thinner with an extended home button. While another accessory maker showed iPhone 5 designs with curved sides, a flat back, and a mute switch moved to the right side of the device. Furthermore the third-party accessory maker, which revealed info regarding iPhone 5 with wider and thinner with an extended home button, says that the fifth-generation iPhone will be equipped with an 8-megapixel camera, dual-core A5 processor, and wireless charging. Well, the web has already surrounded with iPhone 5’s 8-megapixel camera and A5 processor, now fascinatingly, the accessory makers are claiming regarding the wireless charging of the iPhone 5, which in fact make the contents of the page suspect. Not only this, Sources even claims that the Company will launch both an iPhone 5 and an iPhone 4S in early October, with the same form factors; A5 processor and 8-megapixel camera. On the other hand, the screen protector’s claims that Apple plans to release a redesigned iPhone this year with a larger screen and a touch-sensitive home button, rumors regarding the latest hardware have been screen shot, with some claiming it will be a totally redesigned form factor, at the same time as others have recommended the device will appear mostly the same as the iPhone 4. Apple is likely to hold an event in the coming weeks to reveal its iPhone 5 and the handset is projected to go on sale in October. So we have to wait for that time for the exact info, however yet for the meantime we will update you with all the grains regarding iPhone 5.

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University of Michigan computer scientists say even when mobile devices are in power-saving modes and not actively sending or receiving messages, they’re still on alert for incoming information and searching for a clear communication channel, which uses up battery power. This energy-taxing “idle listening” is occurring during a large portion of the time phones spend in power-saving mode and uses roughly the same amount of power as when they’re fully awake, they say. UM computer science and engineering Professor Kang Shin and doctoral student Xinyu Zhang say their new power-management approach can make smartphones perform this idle listening more efficiently. Their Energy-Minimizing Idle Listening strategy slows the WiFi hardware’s clock by up to 1/16 of its normal frequency but jolts it back to full speed when the phone notices information coming in.

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