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With the huge successes of the iPad 3, it’s hard to believe Apple wants to change their formula too much. Still, rumors of a 7-8″ iPad mini continue to make their way around the internets. Today’s rumor comes from NetEase, a Chinese-based net portal, which claims the iPad mini is real, and that it will…
Apple’s new iPad (3rd gen) path to world dominance expands to 21 more countries in April, including 12 new markets this Friday. Customers in South Korea, Brunei, Croatia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Malaysia, Panama, St. Maarten, Uruguay, and Venezuela will be able to get their hands on the new iPad on April 20th. Colombia,…
Sprint’s going to launch a 4G LTE network this summer that’ll initially cover five to six cities. By the end of the year, Sprint expects to cover over 123 million Americans, and by the end of next year they expect that figure to climb to 250 million Americans. To put that number into some perspective,…
Last Monday, Easter Monday, AT&T started selling the Nokia Lumia 900 in the United States. According to The Wall Street Journal, who quotes Paul Roth, President of Retail Sales at AT&T, sales have “exceeded” expectations. What were those expectations in the first place? We’ll never know. Some people point to Amazon’s best sellers list as…
Windows Phone hasn’t exactly been a success, and it’s not very hard to see why. Despite Microsoft working their ass off for the past two years, their mobile OS just isn’t up to snuff compared to Android or iOS. We think this will change when Windows Phone 8, codename Apollo, comes out later this year.…
Three days ago I posted a Twitter conversation I had with Eldar Murtazin, Editor in Chief of Mobile-Review, where he said that he was going to be in London on May 2nd for what might possibly be the unveiling of the Samsung Galaxy S III. Now, thanks to Tweakers.net, we know for a fact that…
Motorola’s announcement the Droid RAZR in October 2011 was awkward at best. Less than 24 hours later, on a stage half way around the world, Samsung showed off the Galaxy Nexus. Not only did the Nexus have better hardware specifications, but it also ran the latest and greatest version of Android. Then, just a few…
A few days ahead of schedule, Nokia released a software update that’ll address the data connectivity issue plaguing some Lumia 900 handsets. The update is available through the Zune software on the PC and the Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac. If they prefer not to apply the update, Nokia confirmed that customers still have…
Chevron WP7 announced on Friday that it closed its Windows Phone 7 unlocking service. Run by Rafael Rivera, Chris Walsh, Long Zheng and the Windows Phone team at Microsoft, Chevron WP7 sold 10,000 unlocking tokens to Windows Phone owners in the two months it was active. The Chevron WP7 project let owners unlock their device,…
Verizon Wireless has announced that its expanding its 4G LTE network to nine new markets, which are heavily concentrated in California. The areas that’ll be getting LTE include Bakersfield, Fresno, Modesto, Monterey, Sacramento, Salinas, and the San Francisco Bay area in California. The only outlying area is Reno, Nevada. All these locales will get LTE…