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IDC on the retail route: Should carriers close their brick-and-mortar stores?

On May 14, 2010, Google announced plans to overhaul its strategy to sell its Nexus One smartphone. After realizing disappointing sales through its online store and the decision of Sprint Nextel and Verizon Wire    

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Pico projector LED costs to drop 10% in 2H10

The cost of LEDs used as light sources in pico projectors is expected to drop by 10% in the second half of 2010, and Taiwan-based LED players expect to enter the supply chain for built-in pico projectors for ha    

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In pictures: Exploring ZTE's handset design center

SHANGHAI--How does a major handset maker go about designing its products? And where does that activity take place? Such locales are typically kept away from prying eyes, but this week ZTE--the world's seve    

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Mallinson: A golden age for mobile broadband and smartphones

Mobile phones are the fastest-growing consumer product category ever. In 2008, sales of 1.2 billion devices generated an astounding150 billion in revenues. But mobile device vendors and other players in the mar    

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Breaking down the rumors of iPhone 4G: Q&A with Digitimes Research senior analyst Ming-Chi Kuo

A fan of Apple or not, one cannot deny that over the past few decades, the company has introduced products that have changed the way we go about our everyday lives. With the iPhone 4G expected to be unveiled in    

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Nexus One starting to show up in third party retail channels, commands big money

If you want to know what Google meant by "more retail availability" for the Nexus One when it talked about spiking its first-party phone store, take a good, hard look at our brave new world here. Inde    

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LG flexible display patent application includes fever-dreams of future devices

We're still a ways out from real-world applications of flexible displays, but LG is preparing for the future: it's just filed a patent application that details changing a flexible display's touch    

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Under settlement, AT&T to unlock phones - but not the iPhone

According to the terms of a proposed class action settlement, AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) will be required to provide the codes to unlock just about any of the phones it has sold during the past decade--exce    

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ZTE eyes U.S. handset market as part of worldwide growth strategy

SHANGHAI--ZTE remains undaunted by its larger global handset competitors, and a key executive said the Chinese handset and equipment vendor continues to believe it can become one of the world's top three h    

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US$250 to become benchmark price for entry-level smartphones

Open and low-cost chip platforms have enabled prices of smartphones offered by Taiwan-based vendors to drop to retail prices of US$250, about the same as that of touch-panel feature-phones being offered on the    

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