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Morgan Stanley’s Patrick Standaert published a note today to investors saying that the research firm surveyed 150 handset retailers in 5 European countries and found that for every Nokia N8 sold Apple sold 6 times the number of iPhones. Despite that terrible ratio, Patrick recommends people pick up Nokia’s stock because it’s incredibly undervalued. He…
Web analytics firm StatCounter has teamed up with the folks at Pingdom to produce a series of charts and compile a set of data about which smartphone platforms are popular and where. The data collected turns over some of the assumptions I had, such as RIM’s BlackBerry platform. You’d think it was the most popular…
One whole year after TeliaSonera launched LTE in Sweden and Norway they’ve finally brought it to the country I call home: Finland. The service works using the 1.8 GHz and 2.6 GHz frequencies, which are not in line with European Union recommendations. The EU says that they’d like to see the entire continent using the…
Text messaging, arguably the best way to get in touch with people since it’s cheap, instant, ubiquitous, and doesn’t require the immediate attention that a phone call demands, will soon be a lot cheaper for T-Mobile customers who have friends and family overseas. For some strange reason, probably due to back room deals, every operator…
Good news for our Samsung Galaxy S ownin’ readers on a T-Mobile UK contract. The carrier has started rolling out Android 2.2 Froyo updates and you should be able to make your device up to date either over the air or using Samsung’s Kies software. If you opt for the former, make sure you’re in…
If you’re one of a lucky few with AR.Drone unit, you’ll be glad to know that now it can used for more than flying around your house (or that’s a mansion). Parrot, the company behind the super-cool product, launched AR.Pursuit, an augmented reality game that is made to add extra fun to your AR.Drone experience.…
A good thing can happen when government intervenes. Take roaming in Europe for instance. Before European Commission interfered, customers were paying hefty prices for calls and messages when travelling to another country. Market forces are not as efficient in an environment with 3-5 players holding a majority of the market. That said, we’re glad to…
Two men have been arrested on suspicion of trying to enter US military bases in Oahu, Hawaii. No the two are neither terrorists nor Wikileaks volunteers (as far as we know), but T-Mobile USA contractors who were just trying to fine-tune the carrier’s HSPA network. Their foolishness comes from the fact they wanted to enter…
If Lonely Planet can do it, so can Time Out. Yap, they’re going for the iPhone and iPod Touch users, as well, and their apps are $1 cheaper when compared to their Lonely Planet counterparts – $4.99 vs $5.99. The first batch of apps released include travel guides for 4 cities — Barcelona, Berlin, Buenos…
German divisions of T-Mobile and Vodafone unveiled their LTE plans and prices — actually German division of T-Mobile is their main/home office. First comes the Big Red carrier which plans to offer a Samsung dongle with tiered monthly plans costing between 42.50 and 72.50 EUR. The top rate provides users with up to 30GB of…