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Two years ago (February 2010) ST-Microelectronics and Ericsson created a joint venture appropriately called ST-Ericsson. The goal they set out to achieve was to sell an integrated solution to handset vendors that consisted of an application processor, a graphics processor, and a complete wireless stack. Now last month I published a report highlighting the fact…
It’s been a while since I’ve switched to the iPhone full time and it’s mostly been a great experience but I still think that the standard e-mail client is kind of a mess, particularly for Google-backed accounts. The folks at Sparrow are trying to fix this with a new iOS mail app and while it’s…
Vietnamese site Tinhte.vn has the new iPad and put the tablet device through its paces. The latest tidbit of information to come from the group suggests iPad apps are growing in size . The team writes (Translated from Vietnamese), “For example Keynote was previously only 115MB but its latest version is 327MB. Numbers is up…
The new iPad is being well received for its new Retina Display and its lightning-fast support of 4G LTE but don’t try and make FaceTime calls over that 4G because the Apple video calling service is still limited to WiFi. According to the Verge, when you connect try to make a FaceTime call over 4G…
When AT&T announced they were going to buy T-Mobile, everyone freaked out. America needs more competition, not less, and apparently the government came to the same conclusion when they told AT&T to piss off and leave the nation’s fourth largest operator alone. Now AT&T was so confident that the deal would go through that they…
Canadians have mobile networks that are 4G LTE enabled, but said networks are using AWS spectrum, meaning spectrum in the 1700 MHz and 2100 MHz bands. There’s nothing wrong with AWS spectrum, but there’s something special about spectrum in the sub 1 GHz range. It penetrates walls easier, so you get better signal coverage inside…
Marko Ahtisaari, son of the former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, is Nokia’s Head of Design. According to Reuters, he recently told the Finnish publication Kauppalehti Optio that he’s spending a third of his time working on “a tablet for the cellphone maker, which would stand out among hundreds of iPad-challengers.” What exactly can he do…
When Google announced the Samsung Galaxy Nexus back in October of last year we were taken aback by their decision to equip it with a 4.65 inch display. Then last month at Mobile World Congress we saw HTC announce the 4.7 inch One X and LG announce the 4.7 inch Optimus 4X HD. This is…
Verizon is the nation’s largest 4G wireless carrier and it’ll remain in the number position for the foreseeable future. The carrier said earlier this week that it intends to double its LTE footprint in the upcoming year. Currently, Verizon offers LTE in 203 markets across the US. This number will expand to 400 by the…
Mobile social messaging service textPlus is going beyond iOS and Android powered devices with a brand new app made for Windows Phone. Still in beta, the Windows Phone app too (just like iPhone and Android versions) provides users with a free phone number to start texting their friends on textPlus at no cost worldwide and…