It's another big news week for the mobile industry. HP is dropping its webOS phones and tablets, Skype is buying a mobile messaging company, Symbian introduces 'Anna' and RIM has three new sociable BlackBerry devices.
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Mark Bridge writes:
Google and Motorola. HP and webOS. Each apparently heading in opposite directions when it comes to strategy.
However, although HP has pretty much pulled the plug on making webOS devices, it's not calling time on the webOS platform.
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Phones 4u and Huawei have announced a partnership that'll see the retailer stocking Huawei’s own-brand Blaze and Vision smartphones by the end of the year. They're the first of the company’s own-brand smartphones destined for the UK.
Both the 1GHz Huawei Vision and the 800MHz Blaze will run Android v2.3; the Huawei Blaze will launch exclusively with Phones4u before becoming available via other retailers.
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Chinese IT and telecoms company Huawei has released its financial results for the first half of 2011.
Sales revenue was up 11% year-on-year to CNY 98.3 billion (around £9.4 million), while operating profit was reported as CNY 12.4 billion.
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Chinese telecommunications manufacturer Huawei has announced a new tablet device called MediaPad.
It has a 7-inch 'HD' screen - promising a higher pixel density than the iPad 2 - and will run the Android operating system on a 1.2GHz dual-core Qualcomm chip.
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