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In its latest press release, ABI Research talks about gesture recognition technologies saying that they add another dimension to our interactions with machines. According to the research company, 600 million smartphones will be shipped with vision-based gesture recognition features in 2017. To prove its forecast, ABI turns to camera-based tracking, saying that such technology has…
In mid-May we published the “Apple by the numbers” infographic, prepared by the good folks of Sortable. Two months later we have the same information presented in a new form – video infographic (or just videographic), made by Wyzowl. So instead of reading, you can “watch” the data. Again, here are the highlights: Apple’s 12-month…
ZTE, who many people know because of their cheap Android handsets, is also in the business of providing infrastructure equipment to operators. According to Mobile Business Briefing, the company has issued a warning that profits for the first half of 2012 are going to be between 60% and 80% lower than profits during the same…
Apple is going to ship a new iPhone this year and it’s going to run iOS 6. That’s pretty much all we know with 100% certainty. How large will the screen be? What chip will it have inside? Will it support NFC? Will it support 4G LTE? Will the back of the device still be…
Qualcomm, like every other technology company on the face of the planet, hosts an annual event for press and partners. They call theirs “Uplinq”. This year the company is showing off the APQ8064, which is a quad core processor that’s basically a Snapdragon, minus the built-in cellular connectivity. Why is the APQ8064 important? Chances are…
When Apple launched the iPhone 4 back in 2010 it was the first smartphone to require a new smaller SIM card called the “microSIM”. Lots of people complained about the change and thousands of YouTube videos demonstrating how to cut your SIM card down to size with a pair scissors suddenly appeared. Earlier this year…
While the Motorola Atrix HD has only been out for a day at this point, it looks like Best Buy is cutting the price of the already quite affordable handset. Yep, you can grab Motorola’s latest Atrix device for only $50 on a new two-year contract through Best Buy. While we’re still cooking up our…
When Microsoft unveiled the Surface line of tablets a few weeks ago, I almost instantly saw Marin’s projections that Windows 8 will be the only viable iPad competitor coming to fruition. Surface has all the latest hardware found in the current crop of tablets, and adds a fully powered desktop operating system. Today, we saw…
We just announced that the Motorola Atrix HD is available on AT&T over the weekend, and now, it’s already it’s on sale! For $69.99, you can pick up the Motorola Atrix HD, which rocks a 4.5 inch 720p HD ColorBoost display with Corning Gorilla Glass. The ColorBoost display is said to be the highest resolution display…
While it’s been a badly kept secret, T-Mobile officially confirmed that it will indeed be picking up the Samsung Galaxy Note in a recent tweet. And that’s about it. Pricing nor availability were confirmed, but we could imagine it will be landing in Magenta stores (much like its accessories) in the coming weeks. The Galaxy Note is…