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Friday 13 May 2011

Sharp Launching Aquos SH-12C 3D [ 13-05-2011 21:21 ]

Author: Irina Turina Source: Pocket-lint Translation by: Paul Smith

Covering Japanese handsets has both its ups and downs. The up part is of course seeing some very cool technology, but then we hit the down part because usually that technology is not available to those of us not residing in Japan. Sadly this is one of those occasions ...

The device in question is the Sharp Aquos SH-12C 3D. The catchy name aside you may notice the 3D part at the end. That's there for a reason. It's a 3D enabled handset. Duh!

The handset is running Android, Gingerbread to be exact, and under the hood you will find a nippy 1.4 GHz processor with 512 MB of RAM to back it up and 2 GB of internal memory. The display weighs in at a hefty 4.2 inches (540x960) and of course there are dual cameras for capturing 3D images (each camera packing in 8 MP by the way). Connectivity wise the usual suspects are present e.g. HSDPA, GPS, Bluetooth, etc.

So if you live in Japan great stuff. For the rest of us time for a sad face. :(

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Appstore Trademark Row: Sony Ericsson, Nokia and HTC Join Microsoft [ 13-05-2011 21:00 ]

Author: Irina Turina Source: Unwired View Translation by: Paul Smith

Apple has registered the terms 'Appstore' and 'App Store' as trademarks, including in the EU. We've already seen that Microsoft are none too happy about Apple trademarking such important terms and now Sony Ericsson, HTC and Nokia have joined in too. The companies, along with Microsoft, have each filed separate requests with the EU to challenge Apple's trademark.

Essentially those challenging the trademark say that the terms are generic and should be allowed to be used by anyone. Of course Apple, for their part, are not in agreement with that. No doubt any of these companies filing challenges would have taken the stance Apple have if they had been first to register the terms, but there we have it. Yet another legal dispute to watch play out ...

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State Of Play Q1: The World's Largest Manufacturers [ 13-05-2011 18:42 ]

Author: Ivanov Konstantin Source: Fierce Wireless Translation by: Paul Smith

It's been a funny old quarter for the major manufacturers and that can be seen no clearer than in some figures released by ABI Research. Q1 was a good quarter for Apple, which as usual, saw the iPhone march ahead and sell more and more. Indeed the iPhone saw a 15% growth rate year on year with 2.8 million extra iPhones having been sold.

It's not all good news though because other players saw some ... well let's be polite and call it difficulty. Nokia, for example, saw handset shipments drop 12% and is facing ever stiffer competition in developing markets. Those devloping markets account for a whopping 77% of Nokia's handset shipments so difficulty there spells trouble for the company as a whole.

LG is another manufacturer to see their growth checked with shipments dropping 20% during Q1. LG did manage to improve its financial situation in Q1 2011 when compared with Q1 2010, but it's still not doing as well as they would like.

For a full breakdown of each manufacturer you can check out the research here.

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