Spain’s Telefonica this week became the first carrier to launch handsets running Mozilla’s Firefox OS. Even if it fails to gain any real market share, the HTML5-based platform will influence how… Read more »
The first commercial Firefox OS handset, the ZTE Open, will become available to Spanish consumers on Tuesday. The question now is whether operators’ stated support will materialize as promised. Read more »
Samsung reportedly dominated the booming smartphone market in China during the first quarter of 2013, according to estimates from Strategy Analytics. But while the Galaxy lineup has been crucial to Samsung’s… Read more »
Roughly half a dozen new mobile operating systems will come to market over the next 6 to 12 months. Many of these look to be more sophisticated than the older ones… Read more »
Intel and ZTE announced a strategic collaboration last month and already have a new product. The ZTE Geek smartphone uses Intel’s latest Atom chip promising more speeds and better battery life… Read more »
Intel announced a slightly upgraded Atom chip at Mobile World Congress and ZTE has already decided to use it. That’s good news for Intel for a number of reasons. Read more »
Nokia reportedly is looking to diversify its lineup with affordable smartphones and feature phones targeted largely at emerging markets. That strategy should include increased focus on the Asha handsets that have… Read more »
Nvidia has scored a design win for its latest Tegra chip. ZTE will use both the Tegra 4 and Nvidia’s modem in its next smartphones due out in 2013. Read more »
GoSmart Mobile will focus on the budget-conscious voice centric user. There are data plans, and one of them is even unlimited, but you won’t get access to T-Mobile’s full HSPA+ network… Read more »
IDC reported its smartphone sales data for the final quarter of 2012 and if I gave you three guesses as to who increased sales the most from the year ago quarter,… Read more »