Mobile Market Archive

  • Apple finally enters the world’s biggest mobile market: China to get the iPhone in October

    Apple finally enters the world’s biggest mobile market: China to get the iPhone in October

    Major Chinese news portal 163.com is reporting [Google machine translation] that Apple has finally signed a deal with China Unicom to bring the iPhone 3G to mainland China in October. This is huge news for Apple, which is now to enter a market with around 700 million mobile phone users, the biggest in the world (US: around 270 million). Following months of negotiations between Apple and China Unicom, "industry insiders" are reportedly expecting an official announcement to be made by the country's second biggest mobile telecommunications company tomorrow in Hong Kong.

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  • Garmin Nuvifone coming in Q4, just in time for people to still not care

    Garmin Nuvifone coming in Q4, just in time for people to still not care

    In January of 2008, Garmin announced the Nuvifone. They were a bit light on details at the time (Who would offer it? How much would it cost?) but promised that it would be on the shelves by the third quarter of the same year. Well, that quarter passed. Then the next one. Jump forward a few [...]

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  • Why Intel’s Processors Aren’t Big on Cellphones

    Why Intel’s Processors Aren’t Big on Cellphones

    Under the hood of most netbooks lies a tiny Intel Atom chip. Intel’s low-power processor has fast become the silicon of choice for tiny computers — but not cellphone makers. Until last week’s Nokia-Intel partnership, most handset makers showed almost no interest in the world’s biggest maker of PC processors. Meanwhile, Intel rival ARM, whose chips [...]

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