HTC was traditionally a business that manufactured smartphones for other people, providing the technology and design for other brands to sell as exclusive products. However, switching from the Windows Mobile operating platform to Android saw the company develop its position not just as a manufacturer for brands like Google, with the Nexus One, but also [...]
The Ericsson phone company was one of the founding fathers of the mobile industry back in the day, but it wasn’t until their partnership with one of the world’s largest electronics manufacturers that they started to make the kind of phones that mobile customers were demanding. Today, Sony Ericsson have become renowned for some of [...]
Apple recently launched its new iPhone 4, in its usual understated blaze of publicity. With the PR making excited claims that Apple customers finally had more of the features they had been asking for since the last iPhone, and the usual army of Apple fans desperate to be the first to get their hands on [...]
With the launch of their latest iPhone, Apple has once again thrown down the gauntlet to the other mobile manufacturers. Despite it’s army of loyal followers, we’ve already seen that the iPhone 4 isn’t perfect, so could this be an opportunity for another smartphone to rise to the top? One thing’s for sure, it would [...]
Motorola’s first incarnation of the Milestone included a full, slide out QWERTY keyboard in a smartphone packed full of features. However, the slide out keyboard received mixed reactions, and made the phone quite chunky; plus smartphones were moving on and touchscreens were becoming more popular. So the phone has been relaunched as the Motorola Milestone [...]
The LG Optimus is one of a new generation of LG phones that will attempt to try and develop the company’s share of the ever popular smartphone market. The LG brand has always proved popular with mobile users, but can this new smartphone compete with some of the established heavy-hitters in the market?
It’s probably fair [...]
Most people who have a mobile phone will more than likely have had a Nokia at some point in their life, which is an indication of just how big a part of the mobile market the Finnish company are. However, you’d be hard pushed to find many people who would say they have ever had [...]
Unlike the many different Blackberrys before it, the Blackberry Curve isn’t meant to be the kind of smartphone you find at business meetings and conferences. After many years of building a reputation for providing sophisticated smartphones for the business user, the Blackberry Curve is part of the company’s plans to make their phones appealing to [...]
With the wide variety of phones available, it was usually only business types that would actually choose to have a Blackberry, and this was mostly due to its success as a communication device rather than all singing, all dancing smartphone. Blackberry has been trying to extend the appeal of its phones, and the improvements to [...]
The original Samsung Wave was a flagship for Samsung’s own Bada operating platform, and to make sure it showed it off in all its glory, it was jam packed full of features and the best technology. The successor to the Wave, the aptly named Samsung Wave 2, has a slightly different aim, and that’s to [...]
