Toshiba’s most recent fiscal results (the first of its 2012 financial year) show that while the company pulled in $16 billion in turnover, it slumped to a $154 million loss for the last three months. While its “social infrastructure” unit (power plants, LED light bulbs and radiation detectors) generated a $107 million profit, the consumer electronics and white-goods sectors continued to lose sales. The company attributes the loss to further restructuring costs as well as pointing an accusatory digit toward the European financial crisis and concerns about power generation capacity in Japan. Despite the gloom, the company says that it still expects to hit a target of $81 billion turnover and $3.8 billion profit before March 2013.
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AT&T has a spanking new smartphone for the masses, especially those with a heart for the environment. We are talking about the Pantech Renue, which is made out of 67% recyclable components, now how about that? It will not just decompose by itself if you leave it in the box though, far from it. The Pantech Renue was specially designed to be able to withstand everyday wear and tear, and the best thing about this smartphone would be the relatively cheap price of just $69.99 a pop – albeit with a new 2-year contract and after a mail-in rebate, of course.
Asus’ Nexus 7, the Google tablet that has certainly made its fair share of waves over the past few weeks, looks set to be on the receiving end of its fair share of accessories, no thanks to a leak of presentation files that have somehow managed to sneak and make a way to Nordic Hardware. Nordic Hardware, not wanting to be selfish, decided to share this bit of news with the rest of the world, and some of the accessories include the already known Smart Case clone, a $20 Travel Cover which has already started to lurk around Asus and Google websites. Not only that, there is also a higher class leather Premium Cover version that will more or less cost double the amount. Why not throw in a cradle into the set as well? This $50 Nexus Dock sports an extremely simple wedge design and has all the relevant audio outputs. Bear in mind that these should arrive sometime later next month as summer winds down to make way for autumn.
It took Apple just 5 years to move a whopping 250 million iPhones around the world, clearly happy that they are residing in the pockets of many people in the streets regardless of age, religion, culture or creed – instead of languishing on the store shelves like other devices from various manufacturers. This is no mean feat, considering how Apple never really had any experience with the smartphone market in the first place. As for the amount of moolah that was generated for Apple by the iPhone since 2007, we are talking about over $150 billion dollars in terms of sales, and this figure had certainly gone a long way in helping Apple being the most valuable company in the world.
Here is yet another smartphone to have arrived on the FCC’s doorsteps – the Huawei Ascend G 302D. The “G” here signifies “Gold”, and it is rather strange to have something denoted as a premium precious metal being relegated to the budget range of smartphones. Ah well, I guess it is not too big of an issue to grapple with after all, as there are far more baffling things on earth to figure out. Just what else have we managed to uncover about the Huawei Ascend G 302D by the FCC? For starters, this will most probably be a 4″ device, and it should more or less run on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, considering how the capacitive keys do seem to point in that particular direction.
Apple and Samsung are currently slugging it out in the court just like how Bane and Batman battled, and will Apple be Samsung’s reckoning? Who knows? All we know is, Samsung has a keen eye for the future of the tablet market, and their tablet roadmap pointed towards a new 11.8-inch tablet that is slated for a release this year, where it has been slapped with a P10 nickname. The display is what we are interested in, where it sports a resolution count of 2,560 x 1,600 pixels, which are massive – clearly placing it in the realm of Retina-like Display crowds. Connectivity options on the Samsung P10 tablet include Wi-Fi and LTE, but apart from that, details are as scarce as money in Greece’s pocket. We are interested to know what Samsung’s plans for the tablet market are though, especially when there is an upcoming event in New York City in a fortnight’s time, not to mention IFA happening later in the month.
Apple and Samsung have come to a head and locked horns good and proper in the courtroom, and there are plenty of lawsuits and injunctions being thrown about from left to right and to one another. Well, one development that should be duly taken note of would be the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit extending the temporary stay of Judge Lucy Koh’s preliminary injunction against the 