There’s a major debate over the fairness of patent licenses and how patents essential to wireless standards like 3G can be used in litigation. It’s a wonky and in-depth argument between huge players like Apple, Microsoft, Motorola, Google, HTC, and Samsung that’s playing out in courtrooms and government agencies all over the world — and the end result will dramatically affect the technology landscape for years to come. Let’s take a look.
Android (mid class) from Phillips. Phillips W920 comes with Android Froyo, 512MB RAM, and more…
nice design.
Soaring Smartphone Growth
As for Nokia:
No soup for you! Come back, one year. Next!
- The soup nazi
Based on numbers from Strategy Analytics
This super slick Phone Size tool that compares the hottest smartphones against one another in as close to “meatspace” size as possible. You just plug in a few phones that you would like to compare, set the size and ratio of your screen and you’re off. (via A Slick Web Tool to Compare Real-Life Sizes of Smartphones)
Photography’s renaissance rests on a few unbeatable advantages. Compared to other kinds of content—songs and movies—photos are, technically and legally, much easier to share and mash up. If you come up with a great, unexpected new site centered on TV shows, you need to get huge servers and pay for expensive bandwidth and licensing deals. If you’ve got a fantastic new take on photos, often all you need is an app. That app lives on a smartphone, which is the world’s most popular point-and-shoot camera. For the first time, cameras are connected to the Internet, they know who your friends are, they know where you are, and they can be constantly updated with new powers. The camera is powerful (Apple’s iPhone 4S is 8 megapixels) and intelligent, and the pictures keep getting more interesting.
Why photography is every tech product’s most valuable feature.
According to new analysis from Vision Mobile the smartphone genre accounts for just 27 percent of all mobile phones sold globally, that’s despite it making significant gains in developing regions of the world. (via Smartphones Just 27% of all Phones)
Smartphone technology used for portable ultrasound imaging device
According to US company Mobisante, more than 70 percent of the world’s population are without access to ultrasound devices, usually because they are too expensive and not portable enough. However, with the recently launched MobiUS — a smartphone-based ultrasound imaging system — they hope to offer a convenient and affordable solution. READ MORE…
More smartphones now sold in China than in U.S. — Mobile Technology News
Smartphone adoption may be high in the U.S. but overall smartphone sales are highest in China. A new research note published by Strategy Analytics on Wednesday estimates that 23.9 million smartphones shipped in China during the third quarter of 2011. That figure is slightly above the 23.3 million smartphones shipped in the U.S.Clearly, China’s much larger population is part of the reason, but this data suggests that in a country with 1.3 billion people, China is where it’s at for smartphone sales growth going forward. If the smartphone numbers aren’t convincing, consider that China is expected to surpass 1 billion mobile connections by May, 2012.
QR Code Island by C.A.N. - The 1:87 scale-model in the style of a Hornby model railway can be read by a smartphone when viewed from above
(via jaymug)
BlackBerry is a ‘broken brand’: Trade analysts
As shares of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) plunged over 10 percent Friday after gloomy forecast about its current quarter, some trade analysts have called BlackBerry “a broken brand.”
RIM shares slumped 10.26 percent to USD 56.08 on the Toronto Stock Exchange Friday after the Canadian wireless company Thursday forecast disappointing earnings for the current quarter.
With RIM smart phone sales posting negative growth in the past four quarters and its market share slipping to 22 percent from 40 percent, an analyst Friday said the BlackBerry maker might be a lost cause, with its best days behind it.
Pierre Ferragu, a research analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein Ltd termed BlackBerry a “broken brand” because of its declining sales in the booming smart phone market which posted 50 percent growth over the previous year.
