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Phone Makers Scramble to Stand Out

Niraj Sheth and Yukari Iwatani Kane — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:00:20 +0000

By Niraj Sheth and Yukari Iwatani Kane, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal

The smart-phone wars are heating up. Handset makers are releasing a wave of new devices backed by a flood of advertisements, as some fight for survival in the fast-growing but increasingly crowded market.

Companies such as Motorola Inc. (MOT), Palm Inc. (PALM) and HTC Corp. are hoping new phones will help them reclaim market share from the reigning iPhone and BlackBerry. To do that, they will need a mix of impressive devices, shrewd pricing and aggressive marketing, analysts say.

Motorola has bet its future on a lineup of new phones that run Google Inc. (GOOG) software. On Wednesday, it is expected to unveil a highly anticipated device dubbed the Droid on the Verizon Wireless network. Verizon (VZ) has been touting the phone in TV ads attacking the iPhone.

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Android Phones Proliferate

Marisa Taylor — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:57:39 +0000

By Marisa Taylor, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

Until this summer, U.S. consumers interested in owning an Android-powered cellphone were limited to T-Mobile’s G1. But the Google (GOOG) operating system is appearing in a slew of new handsets by HTC, Samsung, LG and Motorola (MOT).

The specs for Samsung’s newest Android phone, the I5700 Galaxy Lite, leaked in an online video that made its way around the Web Tuesday. The lower-cost, touch-screen device will have 1 GB of memory and a 3.2-megapixel camera. Its predecessor, the Galaxy I5700, also running Android, has 8 GB of memory and a five-megapixel camera. It launched in Europe over the summer.

Also Tuesday, HTC introduced its fourth Android mobile phone, the Tattoo, which will be available in Europe in October.

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Won’t Someone Build an Android-Based Anti-iPhone?

Harry McCracken — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:01:02 +0000

By Harry McCracken, Blogger, Technologizer

So T-Mobile’s G1 has been unveiled. It looks neat–and it looks like the most serious rival to the iPhone yet, though the BlackBerry Bold could be a contender once AT&T starts selling the darn thing. What the G1 doesn’t seem to be is transcendent–a phone that’s as impressive as the iPhone, but in different ways. And the world could use such a phone

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T-Mobile Lifts Bandwidth Cap for Google Phone

Saul Hansell — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:00:43 +0000

By Saul Hansell, Blogger, New York Times Bits

T-Mobile raised some eyebrows Tuesday when it disclosed that buyers of its highly touted new Internet phone, the HTC G1 that uses Google’s Android software, would face restrictions if they exceeded 1 gigabyte of cellular data a month. That’s no problem for people who simply check their email. But heavy users of photos and online video–just the sort of thing that the super fancy G1 is meant for–might find that limit a problem.

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