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New Millennium Research Council (NMRC) commissioned a survey [PDF file] of 1,008 Americans during the second week of October and found that an estimated 24.6 million consumers, or 1 in 5 people who currently have a mobile phone on some sort of 1 or 2 year contract, are either planning to or considering switching to…
Qualcomm, the firm most commonly associated with the Snapdragon platform that powers many Google Android devices and literally every Windows Phone 7 device, is rumored to have spent $55 billion acquiring New York based Sandbridge Technologies. They specialize in what’s known as “software defined radios”, or in plain English: they make processors that can connect…
Highly regarded analyst firm Gartner has issued their Q3 2010 smartphone figures and the results shouldn’t really come as a shock to anyone. The smartphone category, pioneered by Palm, perfected by Apple, and made available to all social classes by Nokia, is on the up and up with over 80 million shipping during the third…
Motorola announced that the Motoroi X, which we also know as Verizon’s Droid X, is heading to Mexico. Specs wise, the Motoroi X is identical to its Droid brother, except that it’s a GSM as opposed to CDMA-based device. In other words, expect the same huge 4.3-inch WVGA touchscreen, 3G (HSPA) and WiFi connectivity, 8-megapixel…
Want the Samsung Galaxy S in white? You know it’s still not widely available, but it’s coming and our friends from Korea can already get it. What about the rest of the world? Samsung is still quiet on the availability date(s), but those living in the UK can grab the device now. British retailer The…
Analyst firm Juniper Research is predicting that with all the LTE networks launching around the world, revenues coming in from the new high speed cellular networking technology will reach $100 billion by the year 2014. They also say that a majority of that revenue will come from enterprise laptop and tablet users, and that consumer…
In an ever dull landscape of low-end feature phones we have a news item to share. I’m sure not many of you care to know, but MetroPCS has added another entry-level clamshell to its portfolio. The model name is Samsung Contour aka r250. As you can imagine, this is a super-basic device, boasting two screens…
Although it’s already offered in the UK unlocked, Vodafone still has to add the HTC Desire Z to its portfolio. From what we’re hearing (actually seeing from a banner above), the QWERTY keyboard equipped device is set to hit the Big Red’s offering any time soon. Users will be able to grab the Desire Z…
Samsung should consider itself one lucky company to have such a dedicated hacking community for one of its products. The product we’re talking about here is the i8910 HD, which by some standards is still the best Symbian S60 device out there — for instance, it has a bigger screen than the Nokia N8 and…
Namco doesn’t want to miss the Windows Phone 7 boat; hence the gaming company unveiled a slew of titles for Microsoft’s new mobile platform. Among the games that will be (or already are) available from the Windows Marketplace Mobile, we find: Flight Control – The popular iPhone original which Namco already brought to other platforms.…