The best phone of the best phones » announcements http://the-best-phone.com History of mobile phones news Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:16:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 AT&T Getting Samsung Captivate Glyde http://the-best-phone.com/2011/10/11/at_amp_t_getting_samsung_captivate_glyde.html http://the-best-phone.com/2011/10/11/at_amp_t_getting_samsung_captivate_glyde.html#comments Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:28:00 +0000 admin http://the-best-phone.com/?p=34314 We have heard many rumors regarding the Samsung Captivate Glyde. As you can see below, the gimmick is running on Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS. The Captivate Glyde is heading to AT&T and will be released around Q1 of 2012.

The device features a 3.5-4-in, QWERTY slider, an 8 megapixels camera, and Samsung’s Sense UI. No words on pricing yet.

[via AndroidCommunity]

]]> http://the-best-phone.com/2011/10/11/at_amp_t_getting_samsung_captivate_glyde.html/feed 0 Several citizenry, including the leadership system architect, left field P.A. Semi after the Apple acquisition http://the-best-phone.com/2010/02/02/several_citizenry_including_the_leadership_system_architect_left_field_p_a_semi_after_the_apple_acquisition.html http://the-best-phone.com/2010/02/02/several_citizenry_including_the_leadership_system_architect_left_field_p_a_semi_after_the_apple_acquisition.html#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:10:00 +0000 admin http://the-best-phone.com/?p=10298 The most exciting part of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s iPad, for me at least, is the A4 mainframe interior. It’s “custom”, but what does that really mean? The mobile manufacture, like the PC industry, takes the best components from here, there, everywhere, slaps them together and then sells it to you. Unlike the PC industry however, the mobile industry slaps together licensed intellect property of system cores and then puts all those cores on a unity custom chipping, hence the name “system on a chipping”. Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM), Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN), Andrew Marvell, Freescale, they all do this, and so does P.A. Semi, which is wherefore Apple purchased them in April 2008.

Designing a organization on a chipping isn’t the easiest matter in the world to do, the expertness is hard to find, so it didn’t come as a shock to me when I read in The New York Times that several P.A. Semi engineers left after the Apple accomplishment and created their own startup called “Agnilux“. The name is derived from agni – Sanskritic language for fire and lux – Latin for light. Mark Hayter, who was the Vice President of Hardware and a System Architect at P.A. Semi from July 2003 to June 2008, and a Hardware Architect and Senior Engineering Manager at Broadcom (NSDQ: BRCM) from December 2000 to May 2003, and a penis of the inquiry staff at D.E.C. from January 1994 to January 1999, is the Chief Operating Officer and a System Architect at Agnilux. In shortstop, he is a rock star and he left field Apple to do his own thing. That’s interesting it it of itself.

“From what we rich person seen so far, Apple’s merchandise seems to push-down storage up evenly with the competition” — James Dean McCarron, Chip Analyst at Mercury Research. I came to a similar decision when I looked at the iPad versus the Lenovo Skylight. The Skylight uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, clocked at 1 gigahertz, and has a 10 inch blind, keyboard, built in 3G, and 4 GB more repositing than the base modelling iPad, yet it costs the same price. Both products ar due to hit the market in Mar/April.

One more thing …

Building a system on chip, like I said earlier, isn’t the easiest matter to do. It takes around 2 days to design, test, and then green goods a chipping, so the A4 you’re eyesight come out in the iPad this Spring was a project that began as soon as P.A. Semi citizenry got their Apple employee badges printed. A draw has been said about the A4 is and isn’t, and I frankly don’t believe any of it. I’m wait for the iPad to come out, be torn apart, and for one of my favorite chipping research group, Prismark, to publish their results. They mission a lot for their research, so I’ll probably rich person to get it from a friend of a friend if you know what I mean value.

]]> http://the-best-phone.com/2010/02/02/several_citizenry_including_the_leadership_system_architect_left_field_p_a_semi_after_the_apple_acquisition.html/feed 0 SNL Kagan: Mobile River game industry revenue nears $540 million in the U.S. in 2009 http://the-best-phone.com/2010/01/30/snl_kagan_mobile_river_game_industry_revenue_nears_540_million_in_the_u_s_in_2009.html http://the-best-phone.com/2010/01/30/snl_kagan_mobile_river_game_industry_revenue_nears_540_million_in_the_u_s_in_2009.html#comments Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:17:00 +0000 admin http://the-best-phone.com/?p=10121 SNL Kagan has released a new survey suggesting that mobile game publishers grossed nearly $540 million in top-business revenue in the U.S. in 2009, up at a 12% CAGR from $382 one thousand thousand in 2006.

SNL Kagan has also ranked the leadership mobile game publishers by U.S. receipts from third base-after part 2005 to fourth-quarter 2009. In case you’re wondering, the big top four publishers are EA Mobile River, Gameloft, Glu and Namco Bandai.

They’ve also found that while profitability varies by publisher, the overall edge for the industry is on the ascension. According to SNL Kagan, the U.S. mobile game manufacture’s EBITDA margin has grown from negative 19% in Q3 2005 to an estimated 17% in Q4 2009. Unsurprisingly, publishers with libraries of classic game hits or those that develop popular games using their own intellect prop wealthy person the most financial success.

Finally, the troupe’s analyst Gospel According to John Fletcher noted that the landscape has changed dramatically in the past tense two days with app stores and smartphones representing a new and fasting-maturation frontier…

[Via: CellularNews]

]]> http://the-best-phone.com/2010/01/30/snl_kagan_mobile_river_game_industry_revenue_nears_540_million_in_the_u_s_in_2009.html/feed 0 Windows Mobile River 7 confirmed for entry at Mobile World Congress http://the-best-phone.com/2010/01/28/windows_mobile_river_7_confirmed_for_entry_at_mobile_world_congress.html http://the-best-phone.com/2010/01/28/windows_mobile_river_7_confirmed_for_entry_at_mobile_world_congress.html#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:58:00 +0000 admin http://the-best-phone.com/?p=10031 Windows Mobile fans should have understanding to get excited for the Mobile World United States Congress show next month in Barcelona, Kingdom of Spain. The world’s largest mobile-related trade appearance will apparently be where Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) volition finally take the wraps off its supposedly revamped Windows Mobile 7 operating organization, according to the troupe’s chief financial officer Peter Klein. In just a few weeks, Microsoft will appearance the worldly concern the new version of Windows Mobile River, which is expected to bring Microsoft mobile operating organization into the capacitive touchscreen geological era.

WM7 should bring with it a completely overhauled user interface that centers more on finger inputs and easy-to-navigate controls rather. Compared to the impossibly tiny buttons and incredibly frustrating fare-based interfaces of past WinMo versions, WinMo7 should be an impressive refresh, and could spring Microsoft a chance at competing with Android and iPhone. We know that WM7 volition support Zune functionality and will documentation multi-touching. There’s also talk of Windows Mobile 7 having minimum hardware requirements that bring tears of joy to our eyes – 1Ghz processor, 800×480 touchscreen, 3G, WiFi, and GPS.

Microsoft has been steadily losing smartphone market contribution to the likes of the iPhone and the many high-remainder Android phones that ar gunning for the top of the smartphone tilt. Mobile River World United States Congress may very wellspring be the turn-around point for Microsoft’s ageing mobile OS.

Keep it tuned to IntoMobile, as we’ll be bringing you live, in-astuteness coverage of MWC from beautiful Barcelona!

[Via: Electronista]

]]> http://the-best-phone.com/2010/01/28/windows_mobile_river_7_confirmed_for_entry_at_mobile_world_congress.html/feed 0 Motorola accidentally leaks 1.3.8 update to some CLIQ users http://the-best-phone.com/2010/01/28/motorola_accidentally_leaks_1_3_8_update_to_some_cliq_users.html http://the-best-phone.com/2010/01/28/motorola_accidentally_leaks_1_3_8_update_to_some_cliq_users.html#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:44:00 +0000 admin http://the-best-phone.com/?p=10030 Motorola is reported to rich person accidentally leaked an update for its Motorola (New York Stock Exchange: MOT test) CLIQ today. According to Eric Zeman over at PhoneScoop, the 1.3.8 software update was available for about 15 proceedings, before departure backrest into concealment. The leaked update follows an functionary CLIQ software system update that improved battery liveliness, touchscreen truth, and cellular connectivity on the Android-powered smartphone shoemaker’s last calendar month. We have no idea what this rumored update entails, or even if the alleged leak was in fact pushed out to some 600 users, but it’s interesting that Motorola themselves net ball the software system slip out.

Have you been blessed with this rumored update on your Motorola CLIQ? Let us know what differences you’re seeing in the comments below!

[Via: PhoneScoop]

]]> http://the-best-phone.com/2010/01/28/motorola_accidentally_leaks_1_3_8_update_to_some_cliq_users.html/feed 0 Mozilla Firefox for Android advent in February? http://the-best-phone.com/2010/01/28/mozilla_firefox_for_android_advent_in_february_.html http://the-best-phone.com/2010/01/28/mozilla_firefox_for_android_advent_in_february_.html#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:19:00 +0000 admin http://the-best-phone.com/?p=9968

After Maemo, Firefox Mobile (aka Fennec) is about to conquer another Linux-based platform – Android. This is not to say something’s legal injury with the built-in Webkit-based web browser, quite the reverse, but as you know – more choices are always welcome.

According to Camp-firefox.de, the first usable beta of Firefox Mobile River for Android may be out in February. After getting all the experience from Maemo, we tin only promise the “path to the first release candidate” North Korean won’t take too long. We’ll certainly reputation as soon as it hits the Android Market. Stay tuned…

[Via: Unwired View]

]]> http://the-best-phone.com/2010/01/28/mozilla_firefox_for_android_advent_in_february_.html/feed 0 Lumosity.com launches Lumosity Brain Trainer for the iPhone http://the-best-phone.com/2010/01/27/lumosity_com_launches_lumosity_brain_trainer_for_the_iphone.html http://the-best-phone.com/2010/01/27/lumosity_com_launches_lumosity_brain_trainer_for_the_iphone.html#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:34:00 +0000 admin http://the-best-phone.com/?p=9946

Brain-training gaming destination Lumosity.com is joining the iPhone raceway with an app called… guessing… Lumosity Brain Trainer. The new application promises to deliver a “complete encephalon grooming experience in a mobile format.”

In other words, they ar mobile-izing their website, and allow users to running their advancement using the so called “Brain Performance Index” (BPI) to give an “integrated assessment of brain function improvement.”

The diligence is free and comes with 35 daily training sessions of 7 encephalon games designed to enhance cognitive abilities including storage, processing speed, aid, flexibility, and problem solving… AppStore link is here.

]]> http://the-best-phone.com/2010/01/27/lumosity_com_launches_lumosity_brain_trainer_for_the_iphone.html/feed 0 Motorola Zeppelin to Show up at Mobile River World United States Congress? http://the-best-phone.com/2010/01/27/motorola_zeppelin_to_show_up_at_mobile_river_world_united_states_congress_.html http://the-best-phone.com/2010/01/27/motorola_zeppelin_to_show_up_at_mobile_river_world_united_states_congress_.html#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:24:00 +0000 admin http://the-best-phone.com/?p=9952

Motorola (New York Stock Exchange: MOT)’s next Android, computer code-named Zeppelin, whitethorn be unveiled at the Mobile World United States Congress next month in Barcelona. The Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin package includes a 3.1” HVGA display, Wi-Fi, GPS, HDMI out, 3.5mm headphone jackass, and 5 megapixel photographic camera with flash, all surrounding a juicy sum of Android, wrapped in a thick bed of motoblur. This picture looks distinctly different than what we saw of the Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in PRC, but either there volition be some case changes depending on where it’s launching, or Moto’s gone with a new look since those initial models. MWC is obviously focused on European wireless, but there were rumours that the Zeppelin would be advent to the U.S., and could be a nice choice for those who were looking for something a little drum sander than the droid.

[mobil.cz via Engadget]

]]> http://the-best-phone.com/2010/01/27/motorola_zeppelin_to_show_up_at_mobile_river_world_united_states_congress_.html/feed 0 U.S. jitney and truck drivers banned from texting and driving http://the-best-phone.com/2010/01/26/u_s_jitney_and_truck_drivers_banned_from_texting_and_driving.html http://the-best-phone.com/2010/01/26/u_s_jitney_and_truck_drivers_banned_from_texting_and_driving.html#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:51:00 +0000 admin http://the-best-phone.com/?p=9925 It’s scary to think about drivers of twelve-ton vehicles pickings their eyes off the road to send out a textual matter content from behind the wheel, which is wherefore the US is making it illegal throughout the US. The federal government has officially banned American English truckers and bus drivers from texting while drive. US Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said that the new practice of law takes effect immediately. So, you can thrust with a little more peace of head, starting today.

The new practice of law is aimed at persuading fleets of the scariest vehicles on the route to thrust safer. Drivers that prison-breaking the new law (and get caught) will facing fines of up to $2,750 for each offense. The fine is significantly greater than that levied against small vehicle motorists in states where texting and driving is prohibited. It makes sense, though, because bigger vehicles pose a greater danger to other drivers. With some 200,000 accidents a class estimated to be caused by texting, it’s sobering to think how many of those could be big-rig trucks and buses.

Do you tactile property safer knowing that truck and jitney drivers have been banned from texting? A draw of motorists ar simply ignoring their state’s texting and drive laws anyway.

[Via: Reuters]

]]> http://the-best-phone.com/2010/01/26/u_s_jitney_and_truck_drivers_banned_from_texting_and_driving.html/feed 0 The Timbaland ‘Morning After Dark’ video recording has 2 Nokias in – but which 2? http://the-best-phone.com/2010/01/24/the_timbaland_8216_morning_after_dark_8217_video_recording_has_2_nokias_in_8211_but_which_2_.html http://the-best-phone.com/2010/01/24/the_timbaland_8216_morning_after_dark_8217_video_recording_has_2_nokias_in_8211_but_which_2_.html#comments Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:30:00 +0000 admin http://the-best-phone.com/?p=9773

Well if you’re anything like me, you probably vigil music videos a little too carefully at times – granted, some of you might be looking at the lovely ladies that tend to appear in these vids – me, I’m looking for Mobile devices! The likes of Nokia (New York Stock Exchange: NOK), Motorola (NYSE: MOT), and a few other famous names have been tightly linked to medicine videos, since the Mobile became an object of desire – and what better means to promote it, than stick unity (or more) in a music video!

Now in past tense months, I’ve commented on other medicine videos having more than unity device in (The Game’s ‘Cameraphone’ running, deed. Ne-Yo springs to head), but in this lawsuit it’s all devices from one maker – Nokia.

If you mouse click this linkup then you’ll be taken to Timbaland’s official web site, and you can watch the video – 10 points to the first base person that comes back and lists the devices out correctly – only exact answers volition do…

… GAME ON!

[Morning After Dark is a single from Timbo's latest album 'Shock Value II' - checkout out the Timbaland official website here]

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