Carriers Want Their Share of Billions in Apps Revenue

By Dragan Petric | 3/4/2011

In his latest column, our European correspondent Dragan Petric explains how wireless carriers around the world are trying to get a cut of the billions of dollars currently funneling through mobile software stores.

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Nokia Dropping Symbian and MeeGo, Going with Windows Phone 7

By Ed Hardy | 2/11/2011

In a dramatic change of strategy, Nokia announced a plan this morning to make Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 its default operating system. In the future, Nokia will stop developing operating systems and concentrate on smartphone hardware.

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Nokia May Put Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 on Its Future Smartphones

By Grant Hatchimonji | 2/10/2011

Nokia and Microsoft apparently aren't far from teaming up in an attempt to compete with the dominance of Google and Apple in the smartphone market, according to an unconfirmed report from an inside source.

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Nokia E7 To Begin Shipping this Week

By Ed Hardy | 2/7/2011

The Nokia E7, which was originally scheduled to launch late last year, is finally going to start reaching customer's hands this week. This business-oriented device is going to run Symbian^3 and sport a large display and keyboard.

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Are Smartphone Cases Really Necessary?

By Ed Hardy | 1/28/2011

Brighthand's Site Editor has always carried his smartphone around without any kind of a case, but a recent mishap has caused him to reconsider this. So he's looking for reader opinions: are cases worth the extra expense and bulk?

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Smartphone Success Starts with Strong Mobile Management

By Tim Scannell | 12/21/2010

There are many advantages for businesses in arming their employees with smartphones, but the process of deploying them requires careful planning or they can become a liability.

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Nokia Might Be Considering Using Microsoft's Windows Phone 7

By Ed Hardy | 12/20/2010

An unconfirmed report asserts that Nokia is considering putting Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 on some of its upcoming devices. This would be a major reversal for the Finnish company, which has been adamant that it's not going to use any operating system but its own.

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IDC Predicts Mobile App Growth Rapidly Rising in Coming Years

By Grant Hatchimonji | 12/18/2010

Apparently there will continue to be "an app for that" in the coming years, as the market-research firm IDC recently released a forecast predicting that revenue from mobile software sales is still growing at a shockingly fast pace.

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Nokia E7 Delayed Until Next Year

By Ed Hardy | 12/14/2010

The release of the Nokia E7, this company's flagship business smartphone, has been pushed back until at least January. A last-minute discovery of a hardware problem is apparently to blame for the delay of this Symbian^3-powered device.

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Nokia X7 Apparently Headed for AT&T

By Ed Hardy | 12/8/2010

An unconfirmed report indicates that Nokia's next multimedia-focused smartphone is going to be released by AT&T. Images of a Nokia X7 with the this carrier's logo have appeared on the Web.

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Analysts Debate How Much Mobile Shopping Is Happening

By Jacqueline Emigh | 12/7/2010

How many consumers are really using smartphones and/or tablet PCs as shopping tools this holiday season? Mobile commerce is already hot right now in places like the East and West coasts, some researchers say. Still other note that mobile sales accounted for just a small percentage of all Black Friday online sales this year.

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Most Popular Smartphones of November 2010

By Ed Hardy | 12/3/2010

Each month, Brighthand publishes a list of the smartphones that readers have shown the most interest in during the preceding four weeks. October's list includes new devices running the Android OS, Blackberry OS, and Windows Phone 7.

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