TS2R Wireless News: Thinner iPhone 5 Batteries, Nokia Bing Maps, iBooks 2 & New Samsung Chips

TS2R Wireless News from Wireless and Mobile News:

Full news stories today include, Motorola Xoom sold-out, Transformer Prime GPS update, Verizon 4G LTE network expansion, tablet spending and TurboTax mobile apps.

Here's the news that is too short to report:

  • A new Apple patent filing suggests a thinner battery on iPhones of the future.
  • Microsoft has added Nokia branding to Bing maps.
  • Google reported that there are now 250 million Android smartphones/tablets.
  • Apple claims to reinvent textbooks with iBooks 2 for iPad.
  • Samsung announced that it started producing embedded multi-chip package (eMCP) memory for use in tntry- to mid-level smartphones.