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Taiwan makers expect limited impact on orders from consolidation of Japanese handset vendors

Taiwan-based handset makers do not expect to receive more orders from Japanese brand vendors despite continous consolidation.    

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iPhone 4's retina display claim put under the math microscope

Samsung might have entertained us with some trash talk about the iPhone 4's IPS LCD yesterday, but this stuff is of a rather more somber variety. Raymond Soneira, president of monitor diagnostics firm Disp    

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Motorola wants a 2GHz Android by year's end, so do we

Looks like we didn't get the full dish from Sanjay Jha's bout of loquaciousness this morning. It turns out Moto's chief of handsets has also expressed his company's intention to bring the wo    

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AT&T offering price protection (or iPhone 4 swap) to recent 3GS buyers

We've been able to confirm some leaked information out of modmyi.com today that AT&T is doing us a solid by extending price protection for recent iPhone 3GS buyers by just a little bit. If you purc    

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Financial Times: US antitrust regulators plan to investigate Apple's mobile advertising practices

There's not a lot of details on this at the moment, but the Financial Times is reporting that US antitrust regulators plan to investigate Apple's mobile advertising practices to see whether they unfai    

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Garmin-Asus planning another nuvifone for AT&T?

It takes a little bit of creative dot-connecting to follow our thought process here -- but we think we're onto something, so do us a favor and lend us an ear for a second. Garmin-Asus, of course, kicked of    

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UK's O2 to impose 3G data limits for iPhone 4 users

It seems like the entire United Kingdom (at least those who aren't out partying it up with Patsy Kensit at the Met Bar) has emailed us in the last two minutes to clue us in on the fact that O2 has posted i    

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iPhone 4 coming to Three UK, pre-orders starting June 15

And just like that, the UK has turned into a veritable treasure trove of carrier choice. Three has just announced that it too will be carrying Apple's latest iPhone starting from June 24, expanding on the    

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New iPhone to trigger explosive growth in mobile gyroscope market, says iSuppli

Monday's introduction of the iPhone 4 is set to trigger explosive growth in the market for gyroscopes used in mobile phones, as a flood of competitors vie to emulate the feature, iSuppli believes. The rese    

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O2 offers early iPhone 4 upgrade amnesty in bid to retain customers

Would you look at that. Following in the footsteps of AT&T, O2 has today announced it'll allow current customers to pay off the remainder of their contracts at a discounted rate when they re-up wit    

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