What is a mobile phone?
| A portable electronic telephone that, in addition to the standard voice function, may offer many services like SMS for text messaging, email, packet switching for access to the Internet and MMS for sending/receiving multimedia content. Most mobile phones connect to a cellular network of base stations, which is why they are more commonly called cell phones. The base stations in turn connected to the public switched telephone network (PSTN). |
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| 2012-02-10 | Nokia raises stakes with Windows Phone Nokia raises stakes with Windows Phone |
| 2012-02-02 | Nokia Siemens slashes Germany, Finland workforce Nokia Siemens Networks is currently in talks with labor unions in its Germany and Finland sites about slashing more than 4,000 jobs. |
| 2012-01-25 | IC sales recover in December, says analyst The rebound in chip sales was attributed to the Chinese personal and tablet computer production and technology production recovery in Thailand. |
| 2012-01-24 | IHS: Nokia Lumia 900 brings Windows Phone back to life IHS: Nokia Lumia 900 brings Windows Phone back to life |
| 2012-01-20 | Samsung merges Bada, Tizen Samsung Electronics Co. is looking into merging its 'bada' mobile phone operating system with Tizen, an open-source platform that is supported by Intel Corp. |
| 2012-01-19 | Microsoft's final keynote talks next-gen computing, smartphones The company is set to emerge fully from behind the WinTel duopoly and compete toe to toe in the smartphone, entertainment and mobile computing arenas. |
| 2012-01-19 | Audio processor incorporates MEMS microphones ST's Smart Voice device integrates an acoustic processing core with a tunable 10-band equalizer, a peak limiter, and gain and volume controls for mobile devices. |
| 2012-01-18 | ARM CEO not sold on Medfield ARM's CEO said that Intel's design wins were the result of forcing designs that were not originally intended as mobile phone designs into a power and performance that was "roughly good enough for mobile phones." |
| 2012-01-12 | LG, VMWare demo virtualization on Android phone LG, VMWare demo virtualization on Android phone |
| 2012-01-10 | Huawei makes inroads in the smartphone market The company's newly branded "Ascend" is designed for the midrange to high-end mobile phone segment. |
| 2012-01-09 | Mobile phone use boosts VoIP subscription Mobile phone use boosts VoIP subscription |
| 2012-01-03 | Top smartphone trends of 2011 As we begin the new year, it is worth recording some of the more significant episodes that left their mark on the mobile market in 2011. |
| 2011-12-22 | Narrow win for Apple HTC has until April 19 to stop violating a patent on making a phone call or a calendar entry by tapping on a phone number or date. |
| 2011-12-13 | Panasonic joins smartphone race Panasonic is the latest company that is entering the smartphone arena as it expands its smartphone business in Europe next year. |
| 2011-12-06 | Proxy sol'n cuts 3G phone power use by 70 Proxy sol'n cuts 3G phone power use by 70 |
| 2011-11-10 | MediaTek, Facebook team-up targets emerging markets The mobile IC platform provider will embed Facebook in its smart feature phones using MediaTek Runtime Environment. |
| 2011-10-31 | Nokia rolls Windows smartphones The launch of Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 marks Nokia's attempt to recapture its glory days as a top mobile phone player. |
| 2011-10-28 | Sony ousts Ericsson in handset JV With Ericsson out of their mobile phone joint venture, Sony is seen to secure a wide range of IP cross-licensing agreements and ownership of five patent families relating to wireless handset technology. |
| 2011-10-04 | Choosing audio amplifiers for portable devices Read about the various means of improving audio in mobile phone and portable audio systems, many of which use a processor with integrated analog audio outputs. |
| 2011-08-01 | Smartphone sales to cross 1B by 2016 According to IMS Research, sales of smartphones will exceed 420 million devices in 2011, accounting for about 28 percent of the global handset market. |
| 2011-07-28 | Intel, Samsung, others license chip-to-chip spec Intel, Samsung and other mobile vendors have licensed the Chip-to-Chip Link specification which was developed by Arteris and Texas Instruments. |
| 2011-06-22 | Zoosh tech seen as alternative to NFC Naratte's Zoosh technology transmits information via ultrasound with the aid of mobile devices' speakers and microphones, thus enabling such apps as phone-to-phone and phone-to-POS payments. |
| 2011-06-14 | 16-channel EL driver offers high voltage output Supertex has released a dimmable 16-channel EL lamp driver designed to deliver high-voltage output to EL lamps for backlighting cellular phone keypads and other mobile devices. |
| 2011-06-08 | Taiwan bans mobile phones for students Taiwan bans mobile phones for students |
| 2011-06-02 | Nokia's lackluster profits cast doubts on its Windows strategy Nokia expects its second quarter sales to be substantially lower than previously expected, casting further doubts on the company's push into handsets running the Windows Phone OS. |
| 2011-05-26 | Three companies to launch Windows Phone 7 smartphones Three companies to launch Windows Phone 7 smartphones |
| 2011-05-17 | In-Stat: Internet tops most needed phone apps In-Stat: Internet tops most needed phone apps |
| 2011-05-09 | Lack of multicore support delays Nokia dual-core shift Microsoft's move to take out multicore support from its Mobile Phone 7 OS, focusing it on a single-core Qualcomm chipset could limit Nokia's dual-core shift. |
| 2011-05-04 | Samsung, Apple step up pace in cellphone race Apple and Samsung both posted record cellphone shipments in the first quarter to tighten their hold on the fourth and second spots, respectively, on IDC's Top 5 cellphone vendors list. |
| 2011-04-04 | Growing mobile phone use pushes base station deployments Growing mobile phone use pushes base station deployments |
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