Nokia likely to unveil Lumia 610 and 900 phones next week
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Nokia may finally offer a peek at its new Lumia 610 and 900 phones early next week.
Sources told Reuters that the mobile phone maker will show off both Windows Phone handsets in a news conference scheduled for next Monday at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain.
Little is known about the 610 except that it's supposed to be a budget-friendly phone, cheaper than some of the other Lumia handsets. The Lumia 900 has gotten most of the buzz so far, with proud parent Nokia demoing the device at last month's CES.
Nokia's first LTE-based Windows Phone handset, the 900 will sell for $99 with the standard two-year contract. Carried by AT&T in the United States, the phone is scheduled to debut March 18.
Despite the 900's focus on the U.S. market, the sources told Reuters that Nokia will unveil a global version of the phone at MWC next Monday.
Responding to the Reuters report, a spokesman for Nokia told CNET said that the company cannot make any comment on speculation of this sort.
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Whenever it hits the stage, the 900 will be packed with other high-end features, including a 4.3-inch AMOLED screen and a rear camera with a Carl Zeiss lens and dual LED flash.
A front-facing camera is also part of the package along with 16 GB of memory and a long-lasting battery.
Though still a global leader, Nokia has seen its share of the mobile market continue to drop in the face of the iPhone and Android devices. And Microsoft's Windows Phone has been stuck with around a 1 percent share for the past year. Both companies need these new handsets to attract buyers who would otherwise opt for a phone from Apple, Samsung, HTC, or LG.
As Reuters points out, cheaper phones will be a key strategy for both Nokia and Microsoft if they except to carve off a healthier chunk of the market. Beyond the as-yet unpriced Lumia 610 and the $99 Lumia 900, Nokia has been selling the 710 for just $39 to $49, though it's available for free from such retailers as Wal-Mart.
For less budget-conscious buyers, Nokia will soon be selling an unlocked version of the Lumia 800 for a whopping $899. But that's a package deal, which includes not just the phone but also a Purity HD stereo headset by Monster, a Nokia Luna Bluetooth headset, and Nokia's Play 360 wireless speakers.
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T-Mobile USA Wants to Grow Again
Deutsche Telekom aims to return to rising subscriber numbers and earnings growth at it T-Mobile USA unit in the medium turn after a deal to sell it for $39 billion to peer AT&T fell through, the company's chief said on Thursday.
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Chief Executive Rene Obermann said the company expects to invest around $4 billion, or an additional $1.4 billion in its U.S. networks in the coming two years.
He added he expected T-Mobile USA's 2012 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) excluding special items to decline to around $4.8 billion from $5.3 billion last year.
Revenue at T-Mobile USA dropped by 3.3 percent to $20.6 billion in 2011.
Deutsche Telekom as a whole posted a fourth-quarter net loss of 1.3 billion euros ($1.7 billion) as accounting charges on its activities in the United States and Greece failed to offset a cash payment for the collapsed T-Mobile USA deal.
Analysts were looking for a fourth-quarter net profit of 1 billion euros.
Deutsche Telekom stuck to its dividend policy and proposed a stable dividend of 0.70 euros per share.
"Goodwill impairment in the United States and impairments on goodwill and property, plant, and equipment in Southeastern Europe, notably Greece, of approximately 3.3 billion euros ... had a negative impact on unadjusted net profit," the company said in a statement. The impairment charges failed to offset a 2.3 billion euro cash payment from AT&T [T 30.295 0.015 (+0.05%) ] as part of a $6 billion breakup package after the U.S. peer walked away from a $39 billion deal to buy T-Mobile USA.
By proposing an unchanged payout to investors, Deutsche Telekom bucked the trend at other European telecom operators, who have struggled to find growth amid intense regulatory pressure and tough price competition.
On Wednesday, France Telecom cut its dividends and put off a promised share buyback.
Spain's Telefonica trimmed dividends in December and is focusing on paying down debt, while Dutch operator KPN slashed its returns to shareholders via buybacks.
The Bonn-based group said it expects 2012 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) excluding special items to reach around 18 billion euros with a free cash flow of about 6 billion euros.
Analyst polled by Reuters are looking for an adjusted 2012 EBITDA of 18.4 billion euros, with individual estimates ranging from 18.1 billion to 18.9 billion euros
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BlackBerry PlayBook 2.0 OS
BlackBerry PlayBook 2.0 OS I want to love the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and its new Version 2.0 operating system released Tuesday . After all, the PlayBook OS will be the basis of Research in Motion's future BlackBerry smartphones' BlackBerry 10 OS, and it has a clean, simple, inviting design. Also, you can now access your email, calendar, and contacts using native clients without having to bridge via Bluetooth to a BlackBerry smartphone, one of the most inane limits of the original BlackBerry PlayBook OS.
To be sure, PlayBook OS 2.0 offers solid enhancements, a few of which even outclass the competition. But overall, the operating system and its apps are too limited; it's passable as a sort of business communications appliance but not quite up to snuff with what a "real" tablet can deliver, as any iPad or Android tablet owner can tell you. Competing iPads and Android tablets offer much more functionality, and they're easy to use. They don't confuse simple with simplistic, as the BlackBerry PlayBook sometimes does. And they don't have the too-small (7 inches), too-ugly (a heavy black slab) form that characterize the PlayBook; RIM has not yet updated the actual hardware.
If you want a reminder of all that was wrong with April 2011's original PlayBook OS and the still-current hardware, read my original BlackBerry PlayBook review. Here, I focus on what's new in the PlayBook 2.0 OS.
Pleasant business apps that don't always work right
You may rejoice that the BlackBerry PlayBook now lets you access email, calendars, and contacts directly, over a Wi-Fi connection. That means you don't need a BlackBerry smartphone to use the PlayBook -- except you probably still do. I was able to connect to my corporate Exchange account and my personal IMAP account, but I didn't get all my email as I did when I tethered to a BlackBerry Bold.
For example, the PlayBook won't sync messages older than 30 days, so some messages -- like my folder of standard reference info sent via email -- are permanently out of the PlayBook's reach. Of course, over time, your folders build up any history you want to retain, so that's a small ding. The PlayBook 2.0 OS doesn't let you create or edit folders, as iOS 5 does, and continues that annoying longstanding RIM BlackBerry "feature" of leaving a copy of a message in your inbox even if you move it to a folder (casting doubt as to whether the message was actually moved, and preventing you from keeping a clean inbox).
A bigger issue was that in syncing to my IMAP account, the PlayBook saw none of its folders, a problem I didn't have on the Bold. In the PlayBook OS, you can't specify IMAP or POP for email accounts, as you can on other PC and mobile OSes. An obscure error message when I checked my personal account's settings suggested that the PlayBook could not connect via IMAP, instead defaulting to POP. There is no way to say for sure. What I do know is that I've never had this issue with any other OS that supports IMAP, whether PC or mobile. Other reviewers have noted syncing problems as well.
You can add Twitter to the Messages app that handles your email, but all you get are your Twitter direct messages, a nice option if you use direct messaging as a parallel email system, but not if you want to post or even read tweets. For that, you'll need a dedicated Twitter app. Sadly, the Twitter "app" included with the PlayBook is a link to the Twitter site, and it doesn't even log you in with the Twitter credentials you set up in your Messages account. Even sadder is the reason for using the Web app: There is no native Twitter app for the PlayBook. In fact, PlayBook app selection in RIM's App World app store is sparse.
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iPhone 5, iPad 3 To Use New Qualcomm Gobi Chipset?
Semiconductor behemoth Qualcomm has released a new chipset as part of its Gobi family of mobile broadband modems.
The fifth generation chip supports TD-SCDMA, TD-LTE, LTE on FDD and TDD networks worldwide and embedded GPS capability, plus HSPA+ and EV-DO, thus providing the widest support in the market yet.
Qualcomm noted in a press release that the chip is compatible with leading operating systems such as Windows 8 and Android, which hints at a possible tablet or smartphone based on the forthcoming Microsoft operating system.
Gobi v5 also works hand in hand with Qualcomm's own Snapdragon dual and quad core processors and, surprise, surprise, with x86 platforms; but there could be more.
As 9to5mac notes, the chipset could well be powering the next iPhone 5 or even the forthcoming iPad 3, which would allow Apple to release either device worldwide rather than having different iterations for multiple territories and network operators.
Apple has been a loyal user of Qualcomm chipsets for all its iPad and iPhone products except for the AT&T iPad, and there's no apparent reason why Qualcomm would not power Apple's first 4G LTE mobile devices.
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