Piggybacking on the announcement that it already has a commercially available Windows 6.5 handset available, China's ZTE emphasized how it ends to make smartphones genuinely affordable.Figures like 22 per cent of all handsets in 2010 being smartphones and raising that to 40 per cent in 2012.
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Rating: troubles tranfering phonebooks
Surely I'm not that unusual in having more than 200 entries in my handset's phonebook? So why was it so difficult to transfer my numbers from a Nokia to the Samsung S8000/Jet?
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Rating: Critical review of an iconic handset - Part I
Rather reviewing Samsung's S8000 from the Press release, I've actually been putting the handset through its paces. Some interesting discoveries have resulted – including the fact that the GPS facility appears to be disabled in the UK version.
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Rating: Mapping and presence improve
its attraction
Crazy as it may seem, 58 per cent of
respondents to a study commissioned by RIM from Forrester reported
that putting CRM apps onto mobile phones was a key part of their IT
strategy for 2009.
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Rating: Forsyth says in a perfect world everybody would be Symbian - sort of
At yesterday's MEX meeting, John
Forsyth - who is on the leadership team with the Symbian Foundation -
maintained that in certain circumstances, the entirety of a handset
vendor's software R&D budget is being wasted on maintaining such
a physically large number of handset models. Yet he still appealed
for handset diversity.
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Rating: Burnisde introduces auto handsfree feature, too
Getting an update on the latest developments from David Robson on the desktop mobile phone offered by Burnside Telecom, he mentioned a new feature called 'auto handsfree'. He let slip there's a Burnside P23 in Number Ten, too.
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Rating: It's the chip companies who should benefit
So the FT has broken a story about China Mobile holding 'secret' meetings at the recent MWC and discussed helping out with R&D cost with several of the leading handset vendors, it wants to get TD-SCDMA up to speed.
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Rating: And it can supply HSPA chips for TD-SCDMA
As I had suspected, the emerging markets aren't suffering as much as the developed world when it comes to cellular sales. According to a report in the FT, MediaTek's low end handset chips are faring well.
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Rating: What about the A830, then?
Great revisionists of our time – Greg
Brown, joint CEO with Motorola. According to him, the company's range
of smartphones "has always been weak." and Motorola failed "to
keep up with rivals that produce mobiles based on 3G technology."
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Rating: should create market in microUSB to mini converters
All due credit to the GSMA for sponsoring the Universal
Charging Solution (UCS) which will use Micro-USB interface as the common method
for charging handsets. It should spark an interest in mini to micro adapters.
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