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Angry Birds started off as a sleeper application when it first released on iOS, then in no time it exploded onto everyones handset, later accounting for half a billion downloads. That’s why we knew Angry Birds Space would be an instant hit. Well, that prophesy has come true, as Rovio said it had hit 10…
Earlier today I published a piece highlighting some benchmark numbers from HTC’s One X, the version with Qualcomm’s S4 Snapdragon inside. For those of you who don’t know this, there are two One X variants. The Europeans and the Asians are going to get the version of the One X with a quad core NVIDIA…
In case you haven’t yet thrown your hard-earned cash at Apple for the 3rd-generation iPad, AnandTech may just have discovered one more tick for the “Pro” column of your pros and cons list. While the overall battery life for the new iPad falls between 8.5 and 9.3 hours depending on whether you have the LTE or…
The wildly popular photo sharing application Instagram is finally on its way to Android. We knew Instagram was coming to Android some weeks ago, but no one had a clue when the application was going to release. Well, the good news is the photo sharing company has put up an opened registration page for Android…
NVIDIA’s marketing department is desperately trying to convince the world that their quad core Tegra 3 chip is the pinnacle of human achievement. The thing is, it isn’t. The Tegra 3 uses four ARM Cortex A9 chips. Qualcomm’s new S4 Snapdragon on the other hand uses a pair of custom made Krait cores that deliver…
Chances are that if you’re reading this you know what a SIM card is; it’s that tiny little piece of plastic that you shove inside a phone so that it can connect to a wireless network. The smallest SIM card standard currently on the market is the microSIM. Apple was the first to use it…
AT&T’s Windows Phone portfolio is going to grow by two on April 8th. The first device, the Nokia Lumia 900, we covered earlier today. It’s basically the Lumia 800, but with a 4.3 inch screen and 4G LTE connectivity. Not bad for $99. The second device though, the HTC Titan II, is a beast. It…
Microsoft’s latest Windows Phone advertising campaign, “Smoked by Windows Phone“, is an interesting little idea. Some Microsoft marketing guy will give you a task to perform on your smartphone. The adman will perform the same operation on his Windows Phone. Both of you then simultaneously try to achieve this arbitrary goal while being recorded for…
Though rumors of the Nokia Lumia 900 landing on AT&T on April 8th for $100 have been swirling for a while now, CNET has received an official confirmation straight from the mouth of an AT&T spokesperson that this rumor is true. Those of you waiting to get your hands on Nokia’s flagship Windows Phone device…
Canada’s Rogers Wireless said it has no plans to offer LTE services through its sub-brand Fido, though things could change or are changing as we speak. When Fido employees click on the screen to activate/upgrade a customer the option of “LTE Voice and Data Sharing Bundles” pops up. That, of course, doesn’t prove anything though…