Cell Phones

Apple’s head of iPhone engineering Mark Papermaster leaves Sun, 08/08/2010 - 09:54 by Priyanka As per several media reports, Apple Inc.’s senior vice president of hardware engineering division, Mark Papermaster, has left the company. Comments Read more	UAE intends to ban BlackBerry services Fri, 06/08/2010 - 14:52 by Sophie Anderson The United Arab Emirates as well as countries like Lebanon, India and Algeria are contemplating a ban on the use of Blackberry phones to send and receive messages. Comments Read more	Google’s Android phones catching up with RIM, Apple in smartphone market--report Tue, 03/08/2010 - 09:49 by Priyanka According to the latest research report released by The Nielsen Company Monday, Google’s Android-based cellphones are catching up with the top players like RIM and Apple in the smartphone market and have also managed to outsell iPhone in the United States. Comments Read more
Apple removes antenna videos from its website Mon, 02/08/2010 - 09:56 by Priyanka Apple has removed the antenna issues tests video page from its website, which was created solely to show the world that the antenna issues are not unique to their device but are shared by other smartphones too. Comments Read more	Citigroup urges iPhone mobile banking customers to upgrade app Tue, 27/07/2010 - 10:08 by Priyanka Citigroup on Monday urged its customers, who engage in online banking through their iPhones, to immediately upgrade to the newest version of Apple’s mobile-banking application for iPhone. Comments Read more	Apple adds Motorola Droid X to ‘Smartphone antenna performance’ web page Mon, 26/07/2010 - 09:58 by Priyanka Apple seems to be in no mood to end the iPhone’s “death grip” saga as on Friday it added another smartphone, this time Motorola Droid X, on its web page titled 'Smartphone antenna performance' created specifically to highlight that antenna issues are not unique to iPhone 4. Comments Read more
Nokia Siemens to buy Motorola’s wireless network for $1.2bn Tue, 20/07/2010 - 10:04 by Priyanka Motorola Inc. and a Finnish-German joint venture Nokia Siemens Networks announced in a joint statement on Monday that Nokia Siemens is buying Motorola’s wireless network equipment unit for $1.2 billion. Comments Read more	Reception problem shared by whole smartphone industry--Jobs Mon, 19/07/2010 - 09:52 by Priyanka Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs on Friday in a news conference organized to address Apple iPhone 4’s antenna issues ended up igniting a fresh issue when he said that reception issues are not unique to iPhone and plague rest of the industry too. Comments Read more	Droid X promises to give iPhone 4 a run for its money Sat, 17/07/2010 - 14:50 by Sophie Anderson The Motorola Droid X launched Thursday proves that smartphones are indeed a rage and that long queues outside stores, hype associated with the launch and, stock out situations on the first day of the release are not associated with the iPhone only. Comments Read more
Gizmodo, Gawker to cooperate with authorities investigating stolen iPhone prototype Sat, 17/07/2010 - 10:29 by Priyanka According to several media reports on Friday, Gizmodo, its parent company Gawker Media and Editor Jason Chen has agreed to fully cooperate with the authorities investigating the stolen iPhone 4 prototype case. Comments Read more	Consumer Reports does not endorse iPhone 4 Wed, 14/07/2010 - 16:40 by Sophie Anderson It has been almost a month since the iPhone 4 was launched with much fanfare. Enormous hype was created before the arrival of the gadget. The newest version of the iPhone 4 was welcomed by loyalists who made long serpentine queues outside stores several hours before it was unveiled. Comments Read more	The 1 Thing People are Missing About the iPhone 4 Tue, 13/07/2010 - 12:03 by Chris Hill Rob Pegoraro is a technology columnist at The Washington Post. We recently interviewed him on our Motley Fool Money radio show and talked with him about Apple* (Nasdaq: AAPL) vs. Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) and got his take on the iPhone's reception problems. Below is an edited transcript of that discussion.* Comments Read more