Abhey Lamba, managing director at International Strategy & Investment Group, talks about the sales outlook for Research in Motion Ltd.’s PlayBook tablet. RIM, maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, fell as much as 13 percent in late trading yesterday after forecasting first-quarter revenue and profit that missed analysts’ estimates. Lamba speaks with Erik Schatzker on Bloomberg [...]
A sample of 2,200 developers polled by Appcelerator and research group IDC, the Googleplex has nearly caught up to Apple in smartphone popularity, and is rapidly closing the gap in the tablet market, as well. The joint mobile developer survey revealed that 87 percent of respondents said they were “very interested” in writing applications for [...]
We’ve just received word that T-Mobile will be making available a selection of HTC’s newly announced 2011 handsets on their network. The news comes via T-Mobile’s official Twitter, where they confirm that they’ll be offering the HTC Desire S, HTC ChaCha and HTC Wildfire S. For those keeping track of which networks have announced which [...]
FORGET ANY NOTIONS of privacy wherever you go with two Facebook focused phones from HTC, the Chacha and Salsa. To be available from the second quarter, both handsets have a dedicated button for access to Facebook and HTC describes the phones as “built entirely to be social”. By pressing the dedicated button a music track [...]
It’s about time the Samsung Captivate had some company in ATT’s high end Android smartphone lineup. The HTC Inspire 4G is just that with a 1GHz second generation Snapdragon CPU that’s plenty fast even if it’s not dual core. Top that off with a sharp 4.3″ 800 x 480 display and HSPA+ 4G (or semi-4G [...]