For Cellphones, It’s Hip to Be Square
For cellphones, square is the new black. This season, big handset makers including Nokia, Microsoft and Motorola are betting you’ll want to flaunt cute, palm-shaped devices that look more like compact...
View ArticleGoogle Fails With Web Store Experiment for Nexus One
Google is giving up on web-only retailing for its Nexus One phones and instead promising to get Android into retail stores so customers can touch and play with the devices before buying one. “While the...
View ArticleClive Thompson on the Death of the Phone Call
My phone bills are shrinking. Not, unfortunately, in cost. I mean they’re getting shorter. I recently found an old bill from a decade ago; it was fully 15 pages long, because back then I was making a...
View ArticleA Quick Guide to Windows Phone 7 Handsets
If you want to hop on the Windows Phone 7 bandwagon, you won’t lack for handset choices, promises Microsoft. As part of its launch of the Windows Phone 7 operating system, Microsoft has partnered with...
View ArticleSuper Sales: Samsung Shipped 300 Million Handsets in 2011
Samsung is having a banner year for handset sales, passing the 300 million mark for the first time in company history. Samsung attributes the far-reaching success of the Galaxy S II smartphone as a...
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