Archive for April 21st, 2010

Dell Thunder explodes Android with 4.1-inch OLED screen, promises Hulu app

It’s like Dell’s making up for lost time with smartphones: while “Lightning” is the company’s answer to Windows Phone extravagance, the Dell Thunder that’s leaking out along side does up Android 2.1 with similar aplomb and a 4.1-inch WVGA OLED screen. There’s a heavily custom Dell “Stage” UI on top, which seems much different (and classier) than what we’ve seen on the Streak or Aero. It apparently ties into Facebook and Twitter for social networking, and taps Swype for a touchscreen keyboard replacement, along with grabbing just a pinch of HTC’s Sense good looks. Dell’s document also claims this has Flash 10.1 for watching web videos, along with a mention of an “integrated web video Hulu app.” We’re not sure how that works, but hopefully it’s everything we ever dreamed mobile Hulu could be. Under the hood we’d guess there’s the same Snapdragon chip that’s powering the Lightning, but we don’t have specific specs. There is supposed to be an 8 megapixel camera, however, and the phone will be sold in AT&T and world-friendly HSDPA versions around Q4 of this year, with an LTE model to follow near the end of 2011. We can hardly wait.

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AT&T posts solid Q1 2010 subscriber and revenue figures

Today AT&T Wireless announced its financial and subscriber results for the first quarter of 2010, showing solid subscriber and revenue growth.

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AT&T’s Q1 results: earnings down thanks to one-time charge, NYC seeing ‘solid improvements’

AT&T’s first quarter results posted this morning look generally quite positive for the company — it saw its highest first-quarter net wireless adds in history (1.9 million) and both postpaid and total churn are at their lowest levels ever, suggesting that subscribers are happier with their service than they have been in recent months, the thought of tantalizing hardware is keeping them around, they’re too worn down to bother switching, or some combination of the above. Net income of $2.4 billion was down a bit year over year — $600 million, to be exact — thanks to a one-time charge related to some tax craziness that only accountants would fully comprehend, but had it not been for that, they’d be looking at having banked $3.5 billion. In other words, the numbers are looking good.

At least the financial numbers are looking good, but what about those dropped calls? AT&T claims that Manhattan — one of the hardest-hit areas in the country, if not the hardest — saw a 6 percent improvement in the first quarter, with the New York metro area improving 9 percent overall. The promised third carrier rollout is claimed to be well underway, and as proof of all this noise, AT&T helpfully provides a pair of graphs — graphs with no perceptible Y-axis units, mind you — showing bigger bars and higher lines in the first quarter than in last. Of course, we still don’t appreciate AT&T bringing its extensive WiFi network into the equation here; it’s still totally non sequitur to the matter at hand, as far as we’re concerned, since even the most extensive WiFi coverage is a drop in the bucket against WWAN footprint. Besides, if these guys can actually meet their proclaimed goal of offering both the fastest and the most reliable 3G data around, it’s a moot point, right?

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Apple reports Q2 2010 earnings, iPhone sales more than double

Apple reported its results for the second quarter of its 2010 fiscal year. The company posted increased revenues and net quarterly profits, and reported a large increase in the number of iPhone units sold.

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