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Motorola has a phone on their website that shouldn’t be there, the Atrix HD. We’re going to assume that AT&T wanted to announce thing thing on their own terms, but hey, at this point we’re glad that Motorola took the initiative and let us know everything their is to know about their first smartphone to…
Two days ago we saw a leaked image of an unannounced Samsung device called the “GT-B5330” hit the internet. Today it’s been made official. Say hello to the Galaxy Chat. It’s an Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich device with a physical QWERTY keyboard, a 2 megapixel camera, and a ridiculously depressing 3 inch screen that…
Last month Google announced an incredibly affordable 7 inch tablet called the Nexus 7. It’s going to hit the market later this month for just $199. Not only that, but it’s also going to come with a $25 for you to spend on whatever you can find in Google’s Play Store. If you’re an American,…
Foxconn, the Chinese company that manufactures consumer electronics for an incredible number of clients, most famously Apple, has just announced that Terry Cheng, their CEO, will resign due to health reasons. He’s leaving on July 31st. Terry only became the CEO of Foxconn in January of this year, so it’s pretty crazy that he’s leaving…
Sources familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal that Apple may start to mass produce a 7-inch tablet this fall. Component suppliers are allegedly prepping to start producing the tablet in September. An earlier report from the Wall Street Journal said Apple was testing a smaller iPad and this latest leak suggests the…
Qualcomm is what’s known as a fabless company. Their engineers sit in front of computers all day designing chips that someone else then has to physically make. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, better known as TSMC, has been making Qualcomm’s chips since the beginning of time, but these days they’re having issues feeding Qualcomm’s demand. What’s Qualcomm…
Last month Microsoft announced two tablet devices, one called Surface, the other called Surface Pro. These are the company’s first computers and to many they represent the start of a new era at Microsoft. Before the Surface tablets, people thought of Microsoft as a software company. Every two to three years they’d pop out an…
Last year was a bumpy ride for Nokia fans. In February the company’s CEO, Stephen Elop, told the world that Symbian was going to be taken behind the barn and shot in the back of the head. The future, according to him, was going to be Windows Phone. Nine months later, in November, the Lumia…
Rumor has it that Amazon is going to announce the second generation Kindle Fire on the last day of this month. For those of you who don’t know what the Kindle Fire is, it’s a $199 7 inch tablet that runs a highly customized version of Google’s Android operating system. Many people consider the recently…
SK Telecom has just announced that they’ve become the world’s first operator to launch a multicarrier LTE network. What the hell does that mean? Here’s our best attempt to explain the news in plain English. Say you like drinking those ridiculously sized sodas that you can get from 7-Eleven. It’s a hot summer day and…