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Google Drive has been one of the top conversations around the internet ever since we first got a glimpse of 5 GB free storage and a launch in April. Of course, at this point, such a prediction can only be classified as a rumor, because the search giant has yet to make things official. Now…
AT&T announced its quarterly earnings Tuesday morning and the company continues to record impressive gains in wireless revenue and smartphone sales. The wireless provider posted total wireless revenues of $16.1 billion, up 5.4 percent year over year. Wireless data revenue also exploded – up $1 billion or 19.9 percent from the same quarter last year.…
Samsung has released an Android app called “SAMSUNG mobile UNPACKED 2012“. It’s basically a direct channel to Samsung’s marketing people for hardcore phone geeks who want to know everything about what the South Korean handset will announce during their press conference on May 3rd in London. We’re not joking, the app will feature press releases,…
Two months ago, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, LG announced a 5 inch smartphone called the Vu. It’s a direct competitor to the Samsung Galaxy Note, except for a few crucial things. First, the Vu’s screen has an aspect ratio of 4:3, whereas the Galaxy Note does 16:10. What does this mean in practice?…
Fitch Ratings, one of the handful of companies that people pay attention to when it comes to investment advice, has downgraded Nokia’s credit rating to junk status. What does this mean? When Nokia wants to borrow money to do things like build a factory or make a large order from a component supplier, the interest…
ST-Ericsson, as the name implies, is a joint venture that was setup between STMicroelectronics and Ericsson back in February 2009. You’ve probably never heard of them, and for good reason too. There’s no nice way of saying, so here it goes: They move at a snail’s in an industry that demands them to run like…
File this under “rumors” cause this doesn’t come from the official channels. However, we do believe Sprint wants to hurry with its LTE network launch and to offer some solid devices to its users. Apparently, Now Network will launch its version of the HTC One X, EVO 4G LTE, on May 18th, with interested folks…
Not everyone craves for a smartphone. Or at least not everyone wants to pay a premium for all the benefits smartphones bring. Rather some folks are equally satisfied with a QWERTY keyboard equipped feature phone that will allow them to keep up with their buddies without committing to expensive monthly plans. For those folks, AT&T…
Samsung announced the winners of its Galaxy Note S Pen App Challenge, in which developers used the Samsung S Pen SDK to integrate S Pen functionality into their apps. Without further ado, here are the winning submissions: Best Overall App – Grand Prize – $100,000 “Monkey Write * Learn Chinese” by Chiu-ki Chan (Square Island…
Jamie Townsend, an analyst with Town Hall Investment Research, has issued a report that says the Nokia Lumia 900 on AT&T is selling at a run rate of about 1 million units for Q2 2012. What exactly does that mean? Jamie is basically saying that if the Lumia 900 keeps on selling at the same…