Smartphones

This CES was full of surprises -- from Microsoft announcing Windows on ARM, to both AMD and Intel coming up with solutions no one had seen coming, to Nvidia building a Super ARM blended graphics/processor chip. And the TV company making most of the announcements wasn't Panasonic, Sony or Samsung -- ...

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Verizon Trots Out Its LTE Litter

Verizon aims to populate its nascent 4G LTE wireless network with nearly a dozen new devices over the next six months, the company revealed Thursday at its press event at the Consumer Electronics show. It showed off four smartphones, two tablets, two small notebook computers and two mobile hotspots....

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Motorola Unleashes an Android Onslaught

Motorola launched a salvo of mobile devices Wednesday at its press event at the Consumer Electronics show, including a new tablet device running Android 3.0, aka "Honeycomb." The launch comes a day after Motorola Mobility split into its own company, a move that the market reacted favorably toward Tu...

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Samsung Shows Off Svelte New Smartphone

A couple of weeks ago, talk surfaced of a super-thin and super-bright phone in the works from LG. Despite whatever happens with the so-called "LG B," it won't be the only handset around with a bright smile and the thin waistline. At Samsung's CES event Wednesday, Omar Khan, CSO of Samsung Telecommun...

You'll see the weird, the wacky and the wonderful at this week's CES 2011, in addition to the standard array of bread-and-butter high-tech consumer electronics advances. One of the items to be displayed is what's claimed to be the world's first consumer 3D camera that can recognize gesture-based app...

Verizon Wireless will reportedly unveil the HTC Thunderbolt 4G Android smartphone at the Consumer Electronics Show, to be held in Las Vegas next week. This could be one of several new Android devices for the carrier's 4G LTE network. LTE devices will be available by mid-2011, and the lineup will con...

Eying what could be a substantial business advantage, enterprises are racing to make their workforces mobile. Salesforce.com's ongoing love affair with the Apple iPad extends beyond equipping its executives with the device to singing its praises at every opportunity. Mercedes-Benz distributors are g...

Windows May Get an ARM Twist

Microsoft may unveil a version of its Windows operating system that runs on the ARM chip platform at the Consumer Electronics Show to be held in Las Vegas in Jan., according to anonymous sources who said the software will be tailored for battery-powered devices such as tablet computers and other han...

South Korea's LG Electronics on Thursday unveiled the LG Optimus 2X, a smartphone with a dual-core processor. This uses Nvidia's Tegra 2 processor, making for faster, smoother Web browsing and a better multitasking experience, LG said. The Optimus 2X will be released with Android 2.2; it will be upg...

The U.S. Army wants to start issuing smartphones as part of each solder's basic equipment, the Army Times reported. It plans to begin fielding smartphones, network equipment and applications in February to the first Army brigade under a combat team modernization program. In addition to smartphones, ...

OPINION

War and Revolution

2011 is looking to be a relatively violent year when it comes to technology and technology companies. As I write this, there are folks calling the attacks by Wikileaks supporters a cyberwar, but I think it is more of a cyber-revolt, and the difference is important. That difference is highlighted by...

BlackBerry device maker Reserach In Motion on Thursday announced that it plans to buy Swedish design house TAT, the firm that designed the T-Mobile G1 Android smartphone's user interface. "The TAT team will remain as a group in their current location and become part of RIM's global software developm...

Microsoft has filed a patent application for a display screen that would dynamically give users the feeling of pushing buttons when they touch it. It filed patent application 20100295820 last week. The patent's for a "light-induced shape-memory polymer display screen" that would give users the sensa...

Samsung and Motorola have dropped three new phones on the market, from an Android number with not one but two Super AMOLED displays to a flip phone that uses an E Ink display. All three are headed to Verizon Wireless stores by the end of the year. The Samsung phones, the higher-end Continuum and the...

Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 is in the wild, and one of the big questions about the launch involves the app ecosystem for the new mobile operating system. Microsoft promised about 1,000 apps on launch day, and it appears the company has managed to cover most of the bases for big-name apps, with offer...

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