LG Q3 ‘09 Results: Handset Sales up 37% Year-Over-Year

LG has had a record quarter, overall: sales were up 23.5% and profits up 3.8% year over year with all branches taken into account; the mobile communications division in particular saw a 6% quarterly and 37% annual rise in unit sales, totalling 31.6 million, but much of that was from lower-end handsets, like the Cookie , resulting in a dip in the handsets sector’s profit to 8.8% from 11% last quarter and 11.5% last year. Both Korean and North American sales took a bit of a hit, but new European,

Nokia plays musical execs, moves CFO to new Mobile Phones post

Filed under: Nokia There's nothing quite like a dismal quarterly report to shake things up, and that's exactly what Nokia's doing after losing over $800 million in its most recent three-month period. CFO Rick Simonson is being whisked over to a new post as head of the Mobile Phones group -- concentrating on Series 30 and Series 40 handsets -- within the Devices division, while Timo Ihamuotila, who currently leads up global sales, will take over for the CFO position being vacated by Simons

The Motorola Dext is an impressive offering from Motorola

Amazon.de Widgets The Motorola Dext is an impressive mix of Android operations and a full QWERTY keyboard. The phone delivers outstanding responsiveness and functionality. It is the latest offering from Motorola, which has only recently been released. Reviews have been complimentary of the handset with many feeling that its keyboard offers an extra dimension to the phone which other handsets lack. The phone uses the Qualcomm MSM7201A 528 MHz processor and the Cupcake version of the Android oper

New ATT Phones: HTC Pure, Tilt2, Nüvifone G60, Nokia Mural, White BlackBerry Bold

Much like Sprint, iPhone carrier ATT has also added several new mobile phones to their line up over the last several months, including the HTC Pure and Tilt2, the Nokia Mural , Garmin-Asus nuvifone G60 and the White BlackBerry Bold. The guys over at infosyncworld have given a look at all the above handsets and reported their opinion of them, with the main addition to the HTC Pure and HTC Tilt2 being the inclusion of Windows Mobile 6.5. As for the Garmin-Asus nuvifone G60, they

Samsung Omnia HD Omnia Pro B7320 Mobile Phones Launched in India

Samsung has announced two new mobile phones from the Omnia family- Omnia HD and Omnia Pro B7320. The handsets are a part of the same series and designed to perform varied functions for users. The Samsung Omnia HD is designed to be media centric while the Samsung Omnia Pro B7320 is set to rival the BlackBerry 8520.

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