January, 2011

• 26 January

  Samsung announces Android

  

  Samsung’s global family of Galaxy S Android smartphones is growing. Today the cell phone maker announced four more members: Samsung Galaxy Ace, Samsung Galaxy Fit, Samsung Galaxy Gio, and Samsung Galaxy Mini. We won’t get a chance to see the new global devices until Mobile World Congress next month in Barcelona, Spain, and the phones …

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• 26 January

  Moto Atrix 4G and Xoom due next month, Droid Bionic to follow in Q2

  

  If you read CNET’s coverage of CES, you’d know I’m pretty excited for the company’s new Atrix 4G and Droid Bionic. So I was even more interested today when Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha announced potential release dates for the dual-core Android handsets. Jha dropped the news during the Q&A session that followed the company’s fourth-quarter 2010 earnings call this …

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• 26 January

  Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc goes up for pre

  

  Sony Ericsson’s super-slim Xperia Arc floated our boats at CES this year, and now it’s available to pre-order in the UK from online retailer Play.com. The news isn’t so good though on its SIM-free price and release date. According to Play’s listing (spotted by Xperia Blog), the Android phone is due for release on 1 April — we assume it’s …

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• 26 January

  T

  

  T-Mobile Samsung’s Galaxy Tab is now selling from T-Mobile for a new low of $249 after a $50 rebate. The only catch? You’ll still have to opt for a two-year contract. The price of the Galaxy Tab through T-Mobile is a significant drop from the $399 it originally cost when it made its debut in November. But the data plan …

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• 26 January

  Motorola feels pressure from Verizon iPhone

  

  Motorola is bracing itself for a slowdown in smartphone sales in the first quarter as the Apple iPhone goes to Verizon Wireless. During the fourth-quarter conference call with analysts and investors on Wednesday, Sanjay Jha, the CEO of Motorola Mobility, said the company saw a slowdown in sales during the fourth quarter due to anticipation of the iPhone at Verizon. …

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• 26 January

  Android to enable in

  

  Android users can’t make iPhone-style in-app payments yet, but that will change soon. At least, that was the promise from Google’s Android group manager, Eric Chu, speaking at a social games conference in San Francisco. Chu said Android was supposed to get the feature towards the end of last year, but Google couldn’t get enough responses from app creators on its …

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• 25 January

  Verizon keeps unlimited data plan for iPhone

  

  NEW YORK–Verizon Wireless will keep its $30 unlimited data plan for the iPhone, Lowell McAdam, chief operating officer of Verizon, said today at the company’s quarterly investor meeting. The Wall Street Journal first reported McAdam’s comments ahead of Verizon’s quarterly earnings conference call this morning. And the company confirmed it here at an event for investors and analysts. But the …

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• 25 January

  Survey: Developers dig the iPad, Android tablets

  

  The growing wave of tablets is spurring mobile app developers to put the devices at the top of their priority lists, according to a new survey. An IDC and Appcelerator survey of app developers (PDF) found that interest in Android tablets shot up 12 points over the past three months with 74 percent “very interested” in developing for the Google …

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• 25 January

  Verizon’s BlackBerry 9650 Bold and Curve 3G gets OS 6

  

  RIM BlackBerry Bold 9650 (Verizon Wireless) CNET If you’re a Verizon customer, you can now finally upgrade the BlackBerry 9650 Bold and the BlackBerry Curve 3G to the latest BlackBerry 6 operating system. The update will be available today by 5 p.m. PT, and you can either update over the air or via the BlackBerry Desktop Manager on your PC. …

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• 25 January

  Huawei wins restraining order against Motorola

  

  Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei Technologies won the first round of a legal battle against Motorola this week. An Illinois federal district court granted the Chinese manufacturer a temporary restraining order that prevents Motorola Solutions from disclosing confidential information about Huawei’s technology to Nokia Siemens Networks, which has announced plans to buy Motorola’s wireless networks business. Motorola announced in July …

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