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Okay, I’m convinced. RIM leadership is delusional. CEO Thorsten Heins gave an interview to CBC’s Metro Morning program, where the leader of the struggling smartphone maker made some puzzling remarks about the state of the company. “There’s nothing wrong with the company as it exists right now… I’m not talking about the company as I,…
Ever since the iPhone came out in 2007, people have been asking themselves whether or not phones with physical keys offer some sort of advantage due to their tactile nature. Looking at all the major smartphones that have been announced over the past few years, as well as RIM’s stock price, one would think that…
Samsung’s 5.3 inch smartphone/tablet hybrid, the Galaxy Note, hit the European market in October 2011. We’ll admit it, we made fun of the Note, predicted it would fail, and wrote countless editorials poking fun at Samsung’s management. We were wrong. Dead wrong. Last month Samsung announced that sales of the Note eclipsed 7 million units,…
HTC announced three devices at Mobile World Congress in February of this year. The One X, their 4.7 inch flagship device; the One S, the slightly smaller 4.3 inch smartphone with a serious case of anorexia; and the budget One V, which is a refresh of the 2010 hit, the HTC Legend. Last month we…
Google’s new tablet, the Nexus 7, goes for $199. That means you can buy two of them for the same price as a second generation iPad. Does Apple see the smaller 7 inch tablet form factor as a threat? They’ll never admit to it, but there are reports flying around the internets that the answer…
Google showed off the Galaxy Nexus and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on October 19, 2011. Here we are, nearly nine full months later, and we can finally say that more than 10% of all Android devices currently in use are running ICS. This data, courtesy of Google, also reveals that a whopping 64% of…
Amazon Flow, which up until this point was an iOS exclusive title, is now available for download from Google Play, allowing Android users to join the barcode scanning party powered by Amazon. However, it’s important to add that Amazon’s “default” app can also “handle” barcodes, but Flow comes with a fancy UI that supports augmented…
Yup, we’ve told you that the long wait will finally end and voila… the first beta version of VLC is now available for download from Google Play. The sad news is that not all devices will work with this release, though most new phones will do the job — as long as they’re powered by…
Natasha Lomas from C|Net UK recently had a chance to sit down and talk to Greg Sullivan, Microsoft’s Senior Product Manager for Windows Phone. During their conversation he dropped a nugget of knowledge that can not be ignored. He admitted that work on Windows Phone 8 started before Windows Phone 7 devices even hit the…
Samsung Display has begun conducting business as a newly merged corporation with Samsung Mobile Display and S-LCD corporations, effectively making the new entity the world’s largest display manufacturer with 39,000 employees and seven production facilities all around the world. Oh-hyun Kwon, vice chairman and CEO of Samsung Electronics, was elected CEO of Samsung Display at…