In the latest development in the on-going saga that is the Qualcomm-Broadcom patent dispuute, Qualcomm rejected Broadcom’s offer to settle a patent dispute with a $6 royalty for each affected phone. The patent, which involves technology to extend battery life, has been bypassed by Sprint. The wireless carrier has implemented a software patch to bypass…
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Neonode N2 getting prepped for launch!
Remember that Neonode N2 touchscreen phone that was supposed to compete with the iPhone? Well, with the iPhone already passing the half million unit mark, Neonode had better get going! We’re hearing that the launch of the Neonode N2 is slated for this summer – possibly launching on July 15th 5th! The company’s global launch…
Look Ma, Chinese can make thin phones too!
You’ve read that right – Chinese handset manufacturers can make thin phones. The one we’re presenting you today clearly confirms that — this device (we’re still not aware of its name) is only 7.8 mm thick. One of the Samsung’s thinnest handsets, X828, measures at 6.9 mm, meaning that the Chinese phone is only 0.9…
Fast typing on an iPhone is easy?
It takes some (short) time to get used to its onscreen keyboard, after which typing on the iPhone seems easy. YouTube’s user “swrtswrt” even thinks that “people who can’t type fast on iPhone are retarded.” Possibly… Then again, my thumbs are not exactly as thin as his… 🙂 [Via: Gizmodo]
Simple phone concept
Here’s an interesting phone concept that prides itself with the popular easy-to-use mantra. As you can see from the photo bellow, it doesn’t have too many buttons, meaning it aims to be positioned as a stylish feature phone. As I’m all into features, I’ll pass this one. Still, I can imagine some people, especially ladies,…
iPling – first iPhone-only location-based social networking service
It didn’t took much time for the first iPhone-dedicate social networking site to launch. Basically, iPling adds a “location twist” in the mobile social networking and targets iPhone users only. The new service is designed to allow iPhone users to discover and communicate with people who share similar interests (i.e. love Apple). Registering is free,…
World Poker Tour cellphones by Sony Ericsson
Here’s something for all you guys and gals who like to gamble and at the same live outside the U.S. — as online (and I guess mobile) gambling is prohibited in the States. PhoneHouse France has been selling limited edition Sony Ericsson K750i handsets branded by World Poker Tour logo – K750i WPT. The phone…
iPhone in numbers – Up to 500,000 units sold during the weekend!
It’s likely that Apple has met even the highest sales forecasts. Here’s the brief recap of iPhone numbers: Apple have sold 200,000 iPhones on the first day – Bloomberg 500,000 iPhone were sold over the weekend, most of them 8GB models – Piper Jaffray (via: Crave) As of Sunday afternoon, 2,700 iPhones have been sold…
iPhone is powered by 620MHz ARM CPU! What are the Symbian OS handset makers doing?
No wonder iPhone works so fast …
Users report iPhone activation problems; AT&T promises to fix them!
Hope you’re not one of the iPhone owners that reported an activation problem. Apparently, many people have complained of having a problem activating their brand new iPhones. According to AT&T, their servers just couldn’t handle the volume of activation requests. Talk about being ready… Anyway, people are angry and now AT&T is there to suck…