Blog » January 2011

BlackBerry Balance details emerge: available in two months' time, coming to PlayBook too

If you're champing at the bit to separate your work life and personal life into two distinct, impenetrable entities, RIM's got your back: it turns out that the Balance product announced a few days ago    

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Exclusive: Barnes & Noble phasing out the Nook 3G

Barnes & Noble may be selling millions of Nook products, but it's sounding like the 3G variant hasn't really done its part to help those figures. We've received hard evidence from within    

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Pico projectors unlikely to be integrated into smartphones until after 2012

With rumors circulating around the market that the Apple iPhone 5 will adopt a pico projector, sources from pico projector makers pointed out that the related R&D is still not mature and demand from consume    

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RIM focuses on QWERTY BlackBerry models in 2011, say Taiwan makers

Research in Motion (RIM), although other vendors have adopted or will adopt touch solutions for almost all of their smartphone models, will still focus on QWERTY input for BlackBerry models in 2011, according t    

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Pegatron to see strong 2011

Taiwan-based notebook maker Pegatron Technology is confident about its sales performance in 2011 thanks to the CDMA-based and the new-generation iPhone orders, which should total about 10 million units, and inc    

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Taiwan market: HTC tops all handset vendors in December sales value

Taiwan-based vendor HTC occupied 22% of the total value of handsets sold in the Taiwan market in December 2010, the largest among all handset vendors, according to sources in the local retail channel.    

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Smartphone under US$100 will help open up China market, says Qualcomm exec

With the Chinese government aiming to exceed 100 million in 3G users, the market should soon see smartphones under US$100, and generous subsidies from telecom carriers is important as well, according to James S    

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HTC expects to ship 8.5 million smartphones in 1Q11

HTC projects shipments of 8.5 million smartphones and consolidated revenues of NT$94 billion (US$3.2 billion) for the first quarter of 2011, decreasing by 6.9% and 9.6% respectively on quarter but hiking by 157    

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Nikkei: PSP2 will have 3G cellular data, OLED touchscreen

We're only four days away from a supposed January 27th unveiling, but apparently there are still more juicy PSP2 rumors left to dole out -- Japan's often-reliable Nikkei newspaper reports that the han    

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Motorola Xoom launching February 17th at Best Buy (update: priced at $700)

When we stumbled upon an800 price for the Motorola Xoom yesterday, our instinctive reaction was to leap forward to the next obvious question: when? Well, that call has now been answered by an internal Best Buy    

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