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Filed under “oh look, another bloody Apple rumor”, we’re hearing that Apple may be buying their baseband for the next generation iPhone from Qualcomm. The baseband is the part of a mobile phone that talks to mobile networks; think of it as a modem. Qualcomm has historically been the number one provider of baseband chipsets…
Nokia’s upcoming N8, the first 12 megapixel device and Symbian^3 device to come out of Finland, is due to come out in a matter of weeks after a long 5 month wait from when it was first announced back in April. In that span of almost half a year, Nokia has provided image samples and…
Mobile television failed to take off for numerous reasons, the primary one being a lack of support from studios, operators, and broadcasters to invest in the infrastructure needed to transmit the signals that are compatible with mobile phones. Qualcomm is notorious for peddling their MediaFLO technology to countries who don’t know any better, only to…
Earlier this year British chip design firm ARM said that a new architecture, code name Eagle, a successor to the Cortex A9, would be unveiled this year and today I’m happy to introduce to you the Cortex A15. Available in configurations that range from a single 1 GHz processor to a quad core 2.5 GHz…
Well, it’s not that surprising, but T-Mobile officially announced the G2 Android phone and this baby rocks HSPA+ speeds. The device, of course, is the followup to the world’s first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1. It will launch with Android 2.2 and from the looks of the press release, it appears that it will be…
We thought HP had shifted their resources from making Android tablet in favor of pushing out a WebOS tablet as fast as possible, but it looks like an HP Android tablet will be making an appearance sooner than later. The first pictures of HP’s Android tablet, the Zeen C510, have surfaced, and reveal a heavily…
I had some time over the long weekend to swing by the Bell store and compare the Super LCD screen on the HTC Desire to the iPhone 4’s retina display and the Super AMOLED screen on the Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant I9000 (nope, it’s not the Vibrant y’all have in the U.S., but it’s the…
Speculation has been running rampant about the BlackBerry Torch 9800 for AT&T not doing very well in sales. Today, Fred Devereux, President of Wireless Operations in the US West for AT&T, gave the impression that the carrier was a little disappointed and somewhat surprised in BlackBerry Torch sales. Funny, I’m not all that surprised about…
Quite a zinger has been given to Google today for their Android mobile operating system, by none other than Verizon Wireless. Verizon will apparently be shifting to Bing as the default search provider for all upcoming Android phones from now on. The whispers that Verizon will be using Microsoft’s Bing search engine exclusively on all…
It’s nice when marketing on Twitter gets at least somewhat clever, and T-Mobile just got a little creative by tweeting a message about the T-Mobile G2 in binary code for us. It was easy enough to translate, thanks to the vast selection of binary translators online, and the message clearly reads, “G2newscmngsoon”. So hold on…