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Verizon Wireless announced that it will start rolling out Jelly Bean updates for 3 of its Motorola smartphones, including the DROID RAZR HD, RAZR MAXX HD and RAZR M. Again, this is one of those staged rollouts so you may not get your fix right on Monday. Still, there’s no reason for worry – you’ll…
HTC decided that a single Windows Phone device is enough for the US market and will thus focus all its efforts on promoting the better model – 8X. The Windows Phone 8S by HTC (its official name) will be available in other parts of the world while US citizens will have to get it unlocked…
Voiamo launched a new service for world travelers, allowing them to stay connected while not breaking a bank. Dubbed Globalgig, it comes with a small Mobile Hotspot device (pictured above) that makes it easy to get your Internet fix in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. Expansion to other Asian, European Union markets…
We’ve be telling you about Baidu’s mobile plans for quite some time now. Heck we’ve even seen what we thought was the first Baidu phone back in May, but apparently that wasn’t the “real deal.” The official Baidu Cloud Phone is in front of you, set to be unveiled soon in cooperation with China Telecom.…
Google keeps expanding the list of countries that work with Google Maps Navigation, and their latest effort is to reach users in Mexico. The free turn-by-turn navigation has been launched in beta, bringing voice-guided directions in English and Spanish. Voice search is also there with the ability to look for nearby businesses and other points…
Samsung offers quite a few Android smartphones but despite that it manages to release timely firmware updates. How they do it (and even more importantly – why other companies fail to do that) is beyond me, but we gotta praise them for the effort. One of their latest gigs is to bring Jelly Bean update…
We’ve learned to expect a lot from Huawei with the company’s Honor 2 moving the market boundaries, showing us what the next-gen mid-range smartphone will look like. In their own backyard, Huawei recently unveiled the T8830, which is described as a low-end device even though it comes with a dual-core processor. Sure enough, it has…
You’ve probably heard about the “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) schemes that allow employees to bring their own gear to the work. While that’s all nice — companies get to save some cash on buying dedicated devices and employees get to carry only a single device around — there are also some downsides. According to…
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Well that’s interesting. Nokia supposedly has a stable relationship with Microsoft, hence it primarily focusing on churning out Windows Phone smartphones like the new Windows Phone 8-based Lumia 920. A job posting on Nokia’s LinkedIn page suggests otherwise, however. The job Nokia had up for grabs is “Principal Software Engineer, Embedded Linux Middleware at Nokia…