Moto punts Pebl-like music phone

Motorola has launched the Pebl-inspired U9 music phone that was forecast way back in July. The compact curvacious sliderphone sports a bright 1.5in OLED external display to give it that MP3 player feel. Continued

Comment Nokia to use Intel’s chipset in WiMAX devices The announcement that Nokia would use Intel chips in its forthcoming WiMAX devices was hardly unexpected, given that the two giants have been working together for more than two years in this area. Continued

Which is it? It becomes increasingly hard to work out where the control point in handset design is. Once we all thought it was the hardware, then it was the operating system, and just as we start to think that it s the service layers above the operating system, then it s all in the network, an finally Apple comes along and tells us it s the hardware all over again. Continued

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Interview TI predicts market surge Rumors of the demise of Texas Instruments’ (TI) Hollywood mobile TV chip are exaggerated, according to Yoram Solomon, director of strategic marketing, industry, and standards at the company. Continued