More toing and froing in the world of patent wars this week, as Apple hit Taiwanese manufacturer HTC with the legal stick for infringing on iPhone related patents.
In the mobile handset space, volume market leaders like Nokia, Samsung, LG, Motorola and Sony Ericsson are being challenged by RIM, Apple, HTC and Palm, which are significantly eroding their market share with an assault in the smartphone market.
Canadian vendor Nortel continued its impersonation of the cow in Douglas Adams’ Restaurant at the End of the Universe this week, offering up for consumption various bits and pieces of its anatomy with a pacific smile and a batting of its long eyelashes.
Microsoft’s mobile platform is picking up steam this week, as two more vendors to get behind the Windows Mobile 6.5-based devices showed off their wares.
Android gained further traction on Tuesday as the platform’s biggest cheerleader, Taiwan’s HTC, unveiled what it is pitching as a mass market device – the Tattoo.
Taiwanese handset vendor HTC has signed a memorandum of understanding with China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile operator by subscriber numbers, that will see the two firms collaborate on the development of smartphones for China’s home-grown TD-SCDMA cellular standard.
40 leaders who are shaping the industry
Issue 160 August 2009
Top 40 to watch in mobile: MCI presents its list of 40 key industry executives to watch in the mobile sector. Restricting our list to just 40 wasn’t an easy task but we think it gives a good idea of who holds the reins in the mobile communications industry. And it’s not always the CEOs…
Taiwanese handset vendor HTC has been positioned by CEO Chou to play exclusively in the smartphone space. Starting out with Windows Mobile-based products that were re-badged by operators, the firm has more recently staked its claim in the Android arena, bringing to market the first three handsets based on the Google-owned operating system.
During the 1980s an inferno of socio-political debate threatened to raze the great institution of big-haired power balladry to its very foundations. On one side, shaking her hips super-fast to add urgency to her cause was Tina Turner. An avowed individualist and staunch believer in self-determination, Turner’s rallying cry - “We don’t need another hero” - thundered around the steamy-windowed corridors of power.
Taiwanese handset vendor HTC has made the clearest indication yet that it sees its future as being a consumer brand as well as a supplier of white label or operator-specific handsets.
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Indeed I did Wardell. Amended.
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