Sentences with phrase «handset business as»

BlackBerry Ltd. said on Tuesday it will stop making its Classic model, raising further doubts about the future of the smartphone pioneer's money - losing handset business as the company shifts its focus to software.

Not exact matches

BlackBerry Chief Executive John Chen last month expressed confidence the company's trimmed - down handset business can turn a profit by a self - imposed September deadline, even as some analysts urge the company to ditch the unit.
Even as it pivots to focus more on software and services, the company that gained fame for its smartphones is not giving up on its handset business — yet.
Another business line makes handsets for companies such as Nokia Corp..
Excluding our handset business, high velocity is performing very well, as evidenced by year over year gains in set - top box, point of sale, printing, and automotive.
And of course that margin, where we are as a handset business, is much better than what we're getting here today.
When Apple made a phone, it turned out it wasn't really competing in the handset business; it was Get the latest slate of new MTV Shows Jersey Shore, Teen Wolf, Teen Mom and reality TV classics such as Punk'd and The Hills.
New Delhi: Finnish handset maker Nokia Tuesday said it is consolidating its business to focus on handset business and will exit from mobile money service as it does not form core of handset business.
The E7 ships with an 8MP camera whilst running from the latest Symbian ^ 3 OS, as featured on the N8, C6 and C7 only with more business focussed features than those other handsets.
The Palm global business unit was responsible for webOS software development and webOS based hardware products, such as the Palm Pre and Pixi handsets.
Nokia's E7 is the latest handset in the communicator series and the first model since 2007, whilst arriving with a 4 - inch AMOLED touch screen display, with the same ClearBlack technology as their C6 handset only with the largest screen Nokia has built into a mobile phone.The E7 arrives running the latest Symbian ^ 3 OS, featured on the N8, C6 and C7 with a more business focussed set of features than those other handsets and a slide out Qwerty keyboard with 16 GB of internal memory.
It looks great and sounds great, even the loudspeaker is respectable and the handset feels sharp and responsive — just as a «business» phone should.
These BlackBerry handsets were found as far back as 2002, where businesses could synchronise corporate email such as Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino and Novell GroupWise servers with these devices — and at a time when access to the internet on the phone was still very much a distant dream, to most.
The design is the biggest change you'll notice, as it steps closer to the form factor of the Curve 8900, a handset that's been incredibly popular both in business and among consumers.
As seen its name, this Acer handset is a dual SIM smartphone that ideal for business users or those... Read more...
There is no second camera for video calling, perhaps something we would have liked given its business credentials, however as no Windows Phone 7 launch handset has this we can't call Dell out for not featuring it.
Microsoft paid $ 7.2 billion for Nokia's handset business (the deal hasn't closed quite yet) and, as a result, has more control over the destiny of Windows Phone hardware.
Of course, launch details have absolutely zilch to do with how the phone's features or performance, but we mention it to highlight one important aspect of the business: with the exception of Nokia, phone manufacturers aren't betting on Windows Phone handsets as a major source of revenue.
«Our HUAWEI nova 2 is one of the most sought - after products among young consumers as a result of its innovative aesthetics and superior usability,» said Kevin Ho, president of handset business, HUAWEI Consumer Businesbusiness, HUAWEI Consumer BusinessBusiness Group.
Under this MOU which covers both OEM and ODM projects, the global consumers of France Telecom - Orange can look forward to a portfolio of handsets, mobile broadband devices and tablets created through Orange and HUAWEI's collabourative product development efforts, joint investments in technology and innovation as well as exploration of new business models underpinned by co-marketing and sales activities.
But this policy review itself is timely as there's a shift in the U.S. handset business.
While it might seem like a letdown compared to upcoming flagships that have processors with higher specs, it's a logical choice for BlackBerry, as their handsets are geared more for business and enterprise, and won't require more powerful processors to run efficiently.
If you're looking for a premium handset that costs as much as it feels good, and are interested in business - type features like the rumored Windows Ink support, you'll likely want to wait for the Surface Phone.
After acquiring Nokia's handset business, Microsoft Devices would soon unveil the successor of the Nokia X which is speculated to be called as Nokia X2.
«I don't really view them as a player,» said Matthew Thornton, a former analyst with Avian Securities who covers the handset business.
According to Lenovo CFO Wong Waiming, Motorola's handset business will be the only part of Motorola that sells to Lenovo, just as the Chinese company readies to establish itself in the US smart - device industry.
Even as Lenovo took on the handset business, Google retained the majority of the Motorola Mobility patent portfolio, in addition to the company's team working on more outlandish products.
Now, as Nokia is set to depart its mobile handset business to Microsoft, the Finnish giant is in plans to focus only on its industrial businesses and navigation - centric HERE.
Moreover, in the total workforce reduction, the company is set to cut as many as 12,500 jobs from Nokia handset business.
After the completion of acquisition of its handset business by Microsoft, Nokia has announced the appointment of Rajeev Suri as President and CEO of Nokia Corporation.
However it isn't business as usual with these new handsets, they reveal a change in tack to accelerate Huawei to the top.
Finnish networking and handset business, Nokia, has issued a white paper providing details as to how the company believes the mobile industry should do its part to reduce carbon emissions.
As for internals, Huawei's VP of handset business and consumer business Bruce Lee confirmed to Hardware Zone that the Huawei Mate 10 will be powered by the Kirin 970 chip.
Microsoft filed a lawsuit against Samsung in a New York federal court in August of last year, as Samsung allegedly breached the collaboration agreement signed between the two companies by refusing to pay royalties after Microsoft acquired the handset business of Nokia back in September 2013.
The Beijing - based conglomerate is quite new to the smartphone business, as the company introduced the first three handsets Le 1, Le 1 Pro and Le Max last year in China.
While it might not come as a surprise to some Windows phone fans, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has confirmed that he was originally against Microsoft's decision to acquire Nokia's handset business in 2013.
The new move will not only change the operational structure of Nokia handset unit but also result some major changes in the top - level management of both the companies as former Nokia President and CEO Stephen Elop will now report to Nadella and serve as executive vice president of the Microsoft Devices Group to oversee an expanded devices business that includes Lumia smartphones and tablets, Nokia mobile phones, Xbox hardware, Surface, Perceptive Pixel (PPI) products and accessories.
A concept image for Samsung «s foldable smartphone, dubbed as «Galaxy X,» shows that it's a touchscreen handset that can be folded out into a large tablet, as pointed out by Business Korea.
TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited (TCT) aims to transition from the «number four handset manufacturer in North America to a tier one portfolio brand» with this «business update», trusting BlackBerries to work as «building blocks of our new growth strategy.»
Celebrated as the start of a new direction for HTC — but in addition to the handset business, not in place of it — the RE Camera was a little plastic action camera that looked like an asthma inhaler, but done in typical HTC fashion, with bold colors and some solid glossy plastic.
As Alex Dobie pointed out in this smart piece, it seems that OnePlus plans to depress its handset prices indefinitely, even if it takes a loss on the hardware, to further other aspects of the business.
As Nokia's handset business is now in hands of the software giant, the Finnish team might also be working with the company for developing the fitness band.
As Microsoft is now owning Nokia's handset business, the software giant is set to give importance to its own services across Nokia devices.
Probably not, so LG could still get a piece of that business, as Apple needs Samsung to remain focused on the current version of the «all - screen» iOS handset for the time being.
As expected, Samsung has exhibited robust performance in the second quarter of this year with the handset business being the clear winner.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z