HTC’s 2011 Q4: good summer, bad winter
HTC’s big 2011 was limited to those warm summer months, when everyone wanted a smartphone for the beach. Now the accountants have confirmed HTC’s initial statement: fourth quarter revenues were down 2.49 percent (year on year). It made 101.42 billion…
Samsung brings us more to love, offers Galaxy Note engraving in South Korea
Sure, you can draw whatever the heck you want on the front of your Galaxy Note, but what about that blank blue or white canvas ’round back? With north of a million 5.3-inch pocketable slates in circulation around the world, you’ll need to get a bit mo…
Strategy Analytics: Nokia tops global handset shipments, Apple sees quarterly surge
Fresh off the publication of its latest tablet report, Strategy Analytics has come out with a new batch of statistics on the global mobile market. In a report published yesterday, the research firm crowned Apple as the world’s largest smartphone vendo…
Potential Samsung Galaxy SII-sibling heads to China via the FCC
A mysteriously packaged Samsung device departed the FCC’s secure zone with a few question marks over its character. We know it’s got GSM/EDGE 850 – 1900 radios and can access WCDMA Bands II and V, plus the usual WiFi and Bluetooth gear, but that’s ab…