Motorola's Photon Q to push the keyboard phone envelope

First Sprint 4G LTE-Enabled Device with Full QWERTY and International ...
Businessweek
26, 2012-- Sprint (NYSE: S), the only national wireless carrier offering truly unlimited data for all phones while on the Sprint network1, and Motorola Mobility today announce Motorola PHOTON Q™ 4G LTE, the next generation of last summer's popular Motorola PHOTON™ 4G. The new device ... Sprint ID, offering an innovative way to personalize an Android smartphone with apps, widgets, ringtones and more all, in a single download; NFC support to share links, apps, YouTube™ clips and more with Android™ Beam ...

Motorola's Photon Q to push the keyboard phone envelope
CNET
Expected to boast fresher features, the Motorola Photon Q's ICS software coupled with access to Sprint's growing 4G LTE network, plus NFC to support mobile tricks such as Android Beam and Google Wallet, make this phone look very compelling. While full ...

Sprint 4G LTE Coming to Four More Cities
Businessweek
Smartphone Games for Disgruntled Office Workers ... First Sprint 4G LTE-Enabled Device with Full QWERTY and International Capabilities, Motorola PHOTON™ Q 4G LTE, Coming Soon. 07/26/2012 11:00 AM ET. *Early Glance: Telecom companies. 07/26/2012 10:35 ... “Sprint, in partnership with our vendors, continues to deploy 4G LTE across the country and we're pleased to soon expand service to customers in these four cities,” said Bob Azzi, senior vice president-Network, Sprint. In today's competitive wireless ...

Motorola Photon Q
CNET (blog)
RIM's ongoing destruction before the fickle smartphone market has left many BlackBerry users disillusioned and disenfranchised. Motorola's ... The Motorola Photon Q is the 4G LTE-compatible successor to the original Motorola Photon. Hesse said the carrier ...

Motorola scores win against Microsoft in German patent ruling
Computerworld
Microsoft sued Motorola Mobility in Germany, alleging that Motorola infringed a patent concerning an "event architecture for system management in an operating system." The patent covers technology for monitoring events, such as battery charge level, alarms ...

Facebook, HTC developing smartphone for 2013 launch: report
ZDNet
The problem facing Facebook is that while its users are moving to mobile platforms such as iOS and Android, the company's ad income is reliant on people using the site on desktop browsers. Its own app hasn't helped redress the balance, so now in order to ...

ZDNet

Why Mountain Lion Just Became the Ultimate Cord-Cutting OS
Wired News
But while the world fawns over updates to Safari and a number of features cribbed from iOS, most people are skipping over perhaps the most significant update of all: AirPlay Mirroring. Don't look now, but Apple just created a formidable cord-cutting platform.

Sprint turns on LTE in four more cities, still no major hubs
CNET (blog)
Sprint announced today that it will bring four more U.S. cities LTE before Labor Day, bringing its count to 19 cities outfitted with the 4G technology by September. Baltimore, MD; Gainesville, GA; Manhattan/Junction City, KS; and Sherman-Denison, TX.

Motorola PHOTON Q 4G LTE official with QWERTY and ICS
SlashGear
This morning it's been made official: Motorola's next QWERTY device, the Motorola PHOTON Q4G LTE, the first LTE Motorola device on its carrier in the USA, complete with enterprise security and Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich. This device does not have the highest definition ... Thissmartphone is UL Environment (ULE) Platinum Certified, aka “the highest level of environmental performance recognized by sustainable requirements established by UL Environment.” You'll be able to work with a lovely five-row ...

Sprint CEO confirms business-centric Motorola Photon Q
CNET
Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse confirmed that the company will sell the Motorola Photon Q and provided an update on its high-end smartphones. The Motorola Photon Q is the 4G LTE-compatible successor to the original Motorola Photon. Hesse said the ...

AT&T Fires Up 4G LTE Network in Florida, Mass.
PC Magazine
AT&T this week continued its 4G LTE rollout, firing up its ultra-fast network in parts of Florida and Massachusetts, and expanding coverage in several other areas. AT&T turned on its 4G LTEnetwork in Miami, West Palm Beach, and Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Android Hackers Show Off New Ways To Break Into Your Phone
Huffington Post
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Hacking experts have demonstrated ways to attack Androidsmartphones using methods they said work on virtually all such devices in use today, despite recent efforts by search engine giant Google to boost protection. Experts showed ...

Smartphones become the new credit cards
Boston.com
Google Inc. offers Google Wallet, which lets you pay by tapping an Android phone against a terminal. There's also LevelUp, a Boston-based company whose smartphone app pays your bill by displaying a bar code. And Square Inc., the company that lets ...

Nokia scraps phone software to conserve cash -sources
Reuters
HELSINKI, July 26 (Reuters) - Finnish cellphone maker Nokia has ditched the software it was developing to compete with Google's mass-market Android phones, three sources with direct knowledge of the company's plans said, in its latest move to slash costs. Loss-making Nokia was hoping ... Nokia last year dumped its own smartphone software platforms in favour of Microsoft's Windows Phone, which has so far had a limited impact, in part due to the high prices of phones using it. "The important factor for Nokia is ...

Samsung Doubles Global Smartphone Lead Over Apple
PC Magazine
But as Apple admitted during a Tuesday earnings call, many iOS fans are currently waiting for the next-gen iPhone, so while sales might be sluggish in the next month or two, they should skyrocket once the "iPhone 5" makes its debut. Still, Juniper noted ... Juniper said other Androidrivals "continue to fall short," like HTC with 11.6 million smartphones sold and Motorola, which has been "distracted by the Google acquisition" and lacks a strong Western Europe presence, Juniper speculated. Nokia, meanwhile, shipped ...

Motorola Solutions profit falls [Chicago Tribune]
Businessweek
Smartphone Games for Disgruntled Office Workers .... July 25-- Motorola Solutions Inc . saw its net earnings drop sharply in the second quarter from a year earlier, but raised its full-year sales outlook and increased its quarterly dividend.

MetroPCS sees 4G rollout by end of third-quarter, shares up
Reuters
N) handily beat analysts' estimates for its second-quarter results, boosted by growth in service revenue, and said it expects to largely complete its 4G LTE rollout by the end of the current quarter. Shares of the company were up 33 percent at $8.36 in morning ...

Fitch: Motorola Solutions' 'BBB' IDR Unaffected By Expectations For Lower Cash ...
Businessweek
Smartphone Games for Disgruntled Office Workers .... 25, 2012-- Fitch Ratings stated today that the ratings for Motorola Solutions , Inc. (Motorola Solutions; NYSE: MSI) are unaffected by Fitch's expectations for lower cash balances from incremental share repurchases and increased cash dividends. Motorola Solutions' board of directors authorized an incremental $2 billion stock buyback program with no termination date and increased the annual common dividend to $1.04 (approximately $300 million) from $0.88 per ...

Samsung's Smartphone Sales Trounce Apple's
InformationWeek
"While the Galaxy S III has been a phenomenal success, Samsung has leveraged its global brand strength and the popularity of the Android OS to drive sales of smartphones in all price tiers," reported Juniper. "RIM continues to struggle to cope with the ...

Google's neato 3D city view arrives on iOS today
CNET
That same feature rolled out to users on Google's Android in late June. iOS users are getting those same 14 regions, including Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, Boston and others. As Google adds more 3D cities to its database, both those platforms ...

Nokia scraps phone software to conserve cash: sources
Reuters
HELSINKI | Thu Jul 26, 2012 9:35am EDT. HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finnish cellphone maker Nokia has ditched the software it was developing to compete with Google's mass-market Android phones, three sources with direct knowledge of the company's plans said, in its latest move to slash costs. ... Nokia last year dumped its own smartphone software platforms in favor of Microsoft's Windows Phone, which has so far had a limited impact, in part due to the high prices of phones using it. "The important factor for Nokia is ...

Facebook, HTC Said to Work on Phone for Mid-'13
Businessweek
Facebook Inc. (FB) (FB), owner of the largest social network, is working with HTC Corp. to build its own smartphone for release as soon as mid-2013, people with knowledge of the matter said. The companies had intended to release the ... While Facebook already has applications that run on Apple's iOS devices as well as Google Inc. (GOOG) (GOOG)'s Android mobile operating system, it is looking to embed its features deeper into mobile devices to grow advertising revenue. While that would put Facebook into direct ...

Facebook Phone Rumors Return Ahead of Quarterly Earnings Report
PCWorld
Bloomberg's report follows an article in May from The New York Times that said Facebook was working on a smartphone due out in 2013. The Times also reported Facebook hired a team of former Apple engineers to help build the device. Bloomberg also ...

MetroPCS sees 4G rollout by end of 3rd-qtr, shares up
Reuters
July 26 (Reuters) - Mobile phone service provider MetroPCS Communications Inc handily beat analysts' estimates for its second-quarter results, boosted by growth in service revenue, and said it expects to largely complete its 4G LTE rollout by the end of the ...

Samsung smartphone shipments estimated at 52M, doubling Apple's iPhone
Apple Insider
A new estimate pegs Samsung's smartphone shipments for the second quarter of calendar 2012 at 52.1 million, which would be twice the 26 million iPhones Apple sold during the same period. Samsung has not publicly disclosed its smartphone shipments for ...

Apple iPhone 5 and why my next smartphone may be...an iPod
Computerworld (blog)
These connected devices don't need to be called iPhones. They just need to run iOS. EveryAndroid phone isn't called Android, after all. Saadi said: "Apple needs to protect the iPhone brand. I believe Apple should develop a new family of connected devices ...

Sprint's LTE Rollout Stymied By “Uh, Birds” As It Plans To Activate Four New ...
TechCrunch
When asked about how confident the carrier was about meeting its goal of 12000 live LTE sites by the end of the year, Sprint Networks Operations President Steve Elfman pointed out a particularly peculiar stumbling block. “We've got several hundred ... In addition to the 15 markets that have already been graced with SprintLTE, users in Baltimore, MD, Gainesville, GA, Manhattan/Junction City, KS, and Sherman-Denison, TX will soon be able to put those Galaxy Nexii and EVO 4GLTEs to good use. [via Engadget] ...

TechCrunch

Motorola Photon Q confirmed for 2012 LTE launch
SlashGear
Motorola's Photon Q Android smartphone will go on sale later in 2012, it's been prematurely confirmed, an LTE smartphone for the US market. The QWERTY slider format is an underplayed one in the smartphone segment, with touchscreen-centric candybars ...

SlashGear

Sprint's Motorola Photon Q LTE is coming 'very soon' (update ...
By Daniel Cooper
The Photon Q is believed to be the Android 4.0-running QWERTY-slider you can see in the image above, but now that the company's head has let the cat out of the bag, we expect more details to roll around very shortly. ... LIBERTYVILLE, Ill.--( BUSINESS WIRE)--Sprint (NYSE: S), the only national wireless carrier offering truly unlimited data for all phones while on the Sprint network1, and Motorola Mobility today announce Motorola PHOTON Q™ 4G LTE, the next generation of last ...
Engadget

Wi-Fi Hotspots Banned From 2012 Olympic Games [VIDEO]
By Neha Prakash
Wi-Fi banned from 2012 Olympic games. ... They might have banned the wifi hotspots, but we are not seeing the tweets slow down https://zoomph.com/Events/london2012/default.aspx · July 26, 2012 08:18:02 Reply 0 Flag this comment ...
Mashable » US & World

iOS, Android enterprise survey: iOS is No.1, Android interest slumps
By Brad Reed
When asked by Appcelerator and IDC which mobile platform was best-positioned to win in the enterprise long-term, 53% of app developers pointed to iOS while 37% chose Android. This is a big shift from a year ago when a similar survey ...
BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech

Windows malware found in iOS App Store app | TUAW - The ...
By Kelly Hodgkins
It is not a threat to iOS or Mac OS X users. If, by chance, you already purchased the infected app, most anti-virus programs should detect the infected file and remove it safely from any Windows system. Users that haven't downloaded the app ...
TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Hacking Conference Exposes Multiple Android Security Holes ...
By Chris Chavez
Last night, we told you guys about a security hole in Android that was to be revealed at a security conference called Black Hat 2012. Well today, corporate and government security technology experts from all over gathered in Las Vegas, ...
Android Phone Fans

App developer says Android is “designed for piracy,” open-source ...
By Chris Smith
An app developer stated that the Android ecosystem is "designed for piracy," and the open-source business model is not lucrative for app developers. ... Speaking at LeWeb 2011 in Paris, France he said that in six months from then, therefore in mid-2012, developers will chooseAndroid over iOS as the main developing platform, and port their apps from Android to iOS than the other way, ... Bloomberg: Facebook and HTC working together on a new smartphone, to debut in mid-2013 ...
Android Authority

Wi-Fi on Planes: Innovation or Invasion
By Joe Brown
Ah the sweet sweet mother's milk of mainlined Internet access. Who can deny what a terrific luxury it is to blast down the Infobahn while soaring through the clouds? I can! Remember what it was like to be unreachable? Here's my Harvey Dent ...
Gizmodo

Podcasts iOS App to Receive Bug Fix Update Later Today [Update ...
By Jordan Golson
Podcasts iOS App to Receive Bug Fix Update Later Today [Update: It's Out]. Wednesday July 25, 2012 11:33 am PDT by Jordan Golson. NewImage After Apple's Podcasts app was released last month, many users had complaints about bugs, ...
MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors...

Motorola Photon Q arriving this fall? | Ubergizmo
By George Wong
The Photon Q is said to feature 4G LTE connectivity, a five-row QWERTY keyboard, an HD resolution display, 8-megapixel rear camera, Android Ice Cream Sandwich, NFC, and global roaming capabilities. Stay tuned and we'll keep you ...
Ubergizmo

MAKE | WiFi-Extending Robot
By Adam Flaherty
A group of students from Northwestern University scratch built this WiFi extending robot, called CommBot, almost entirely from billet aluminum. The bot is controlled via WiFi, comes with a custom tablet UI, runs Linux, and deploys WiFi repeater ...
MAKE

iPad grows lead over Android tablets
By Christian Zibreg
Android captured 29 percent and Windows tablets just one percent, though Microsoft is betting that the upcoming release of Windows 8 and its own Surface tablet will put it back in the game. It's interesting that global Android tablet shipments ...
iDownloadBlog.com

40 Stunning iOS App Icons for Design Inspiration | SpyreStudios
By Jake Rocheleau
There is no denying the popularity of Apple's iOS App Store. There are more developers joining and publishing their apps every week. And the process is moving so quickly that smaller apps with amazing features can get pushed underneath ...
SpyreStudios

HTC plans to release another Facebook phone next year ...
By Robert Nazarian
Although Android was never mentioned in the article, we can only assume this will be based onAndroid and be a completely forked version similar to what Amazon has done with the Kindle Fire. I guess this isn't a shocker that Facebook wants ...
Android News, Rumours, and Updates

Facebook Smartphone on Its Way? - 24/7 Wall St.
By Paul Ausick
While investors breathlessly await the company's first earnings report since its IPO, Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is believed to be prepping a run at the smartphone market. A report from Bloomberg News cites “people with ... The iPhone from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) dominates the market in both revenues and profits, while the Android operating system from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) dominates the software platform market. Samsung Electronics sells more hardware than ...
24/7 Wall St. - Market Wire

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