Sony’s hurting, Apple’s soaring, and Samsung is doing fine, even as it definitely shows stress from the economy. Aggressive pricing and marketing are leading it to spend more to make more, driving overall profit down 44 percent from a year ago to $850 million.
Its handset division led sales for the whole company, selling almost 52 […]

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Shipping delays have pushed the T-Mobile G1’s Wally World debut back a few days to Nov. 3. (Maybe they were using the G1’s GPS to get there?) Since only 550 of their 4,300 stores getting the G1 makes it kind of a crapshoot if you’re driving around looking for one, Walmart’s site should have a […]

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Qik’s handy video streaming app has been out, in real or test release for the iPhone, HTCs and Nokias, but not Blackberry… until now that is. The company’s just released an alpha version BlackBerry client, working best under the 4.5 OS, and running on Pearl 8120/8130, Curve 8320/8330 and Bold. A version for the flip […]

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This is mighty curious. According to this very legit-looking image distributed to a Verizon customer service call center, Verizon either briefly stopped or planned/plans to stop sales of the Samsung Glyde because of “an issue.” Whether or not they actually went through with pulling the phones is a mite unclear, though the vagueness about the […]

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