Panasonic unveils new digital cordless phonesPanasonic, a leading brand of cordless telephones, has expanded its range of digital cordless phones (DECT) with the launch of four new sleek and smart models in the Middle East. The KX-PRS110, KX-PRW110, KX-PR More… |
Google sells Motorola unit to Lenovo for $3bnGoogle has sold its struggling Motorola handset division to Lenovo Group for $2.91 billion, in what is China's largest-ever tech deal as Lenovo buys its way into a heavily competitive US handset market dominated by Apple Inc. More… |
Nawras to host smartphone festivalNawras, a top telecom provider in Oman and an Ooredoo company, plans to host Oman’s first smartphone festival, introducing a number of offers with value discounts on both plans and handsets. Based around the exciting new Naw More… |
New BlackBerry boss out to prove skeptics wrongJohn Chen, the man charged with breathing life into struggling BlackBerry, says he has no intention of killing the money-losing BlackBerry handset as he looks to turn around the smartphone maker. "I know we have enough ingred More… |
Nokia's turnaround hit by weak phone salesA disappointing set of quarterly sales figures for Nokia's smartphones and basic models raised the pressure on its chief executive on Thursday and took a bite out of the company's share price. Investors are hoping that its More… |
Zain names mobile recycling winnerZain Bahrain, a leading telecom service provider, has named May’s lucky winner of a new handset for his green action of disposing his old and unusable mobile phone safely. Mohsen Yusuf Mohsen won the May prize by participating in the ongoi More… |
Fitch cuts Nokia to junk, outlook negativeFitch Ratings downgraded its credit rating on struggling Finnish handset maker Nokia to junk status due to dwindling market share, and said the outlook remained negative. Fitch on Tuesday cut its rating on Nokia to BB+ from BBB- and More… |
Motorola Xoom available in JordanMotorola's Xoom tablet is now available in Jordan through the Haidar Murad Group (HMG), the company said. The 3G/Wi-Fi version can be purchased from all Zain stores across the country, it said. Running on Google’s Android 3.1 (Ho More… |
Nawras sells top handsetsNawras, Oman’s communications provider, is now offering top-of-the-range handsets at three of the company’s stores in Muscat. The handsets are sold in partnership with Starlink and the collection includes the latest and most popular smart More… |
Fitch cuts Nokia rating to one notch above junkFitch has cut its rating for bonds issued by Nokia to one notch above junk grade and said the outlook for the rating was negative as the handset maker rapidly loses market share. Nokia warned last week that mobile phone sales in the second More… |