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Last year, on the 11th of February to be precise, Nokia’s CEO, Stephen Elop, got up on a stage in London and told the world that the Finnish handset maker was going to throw Symbian under the bus, kill off MeeGo, and bet the future on Microsoft’s Windows Phone. It’s been almost 13 months since…
Another day another rumor about this elusive 7 inch Android tablet from Google that we’ve been hearing about for months. For those who need a quick refresher: Google likes to partner with a company every year and release a device that runs Android completely unmodified. Said device is called the Nexus. The first Nexus was…
Well if JCB can have its own version of the Motorola Defy+, its archrival Caterpillar must have a phone of its own. And that’s exactly what they did at this year’s CeBIT in Germany, launching the CAT B10. As you can imagine, it too (like the Defy+ JCB Edition) is a IP67-certified rugged device that…
RadioShack was quick enough to let us know they will be stocking the new iPad, with sales starting on Friday, March 16. In the meantime you can pre-order Apple’s tablet by purchasing a $50 RadioShack gift card that can be used toward the final purchase. The Shack also reminded us about its Trade & Save…
Sprint and their prepaid brand Boost Mobile have just announced that they’re going to be carrying the LG Rumor Reflex. Is it a smartphone? Nope, it runs some proprietary dumb phone (politically correct term is feature phone) operating system. Does it have any impressive specifications? Ehhh, it has a 3 inch 400 × 240 pixel…
Amazon’s $200 tablet, the Kindle Fire, is about the only thing we can genuinely call a competitor to Apple’s iPad. According to DigiTimes, nearly 4 million of them were sold in Q4 2011, which pales in comparison to Apple’s 15 million iPads, but you have to remember that the Kindle Fire went on sale in…
So you plan to grab the brand new iPad the second it’s out? If you need a special in-wall mount to hold it while you’re not surfing, checking email, photos or whatever you happen to do on your tablet – check out Bracketron’s iRoom iDock. This isn’t a device for everyone; rather it’s made for…
Everyone’s talking about mobile payments these days. Google has its own scheme, mobile carriers their own (Isis Mobile in the U.S.), while big retailers are also teaming-up to get involved in this hot-paced action. And while there’s still no single model that’s been adopted by the entire market, things are moving forward. Some companies offer…
As part of the promotion activities for its “is it a tablet? is it a phone?” device, Samsung is touring shopping centers throughout Europe, demonstrating the Galaxy Note in action. As we speak, British shoppers are able to play with the big phone, while Sammy’s representatives explain them all there is to know about it.…
We gotta give it to Microsoft for trying extra hard to make the world love and, even more importantly, pay for Windows Phone devices. The Redmond giant is in talks with pretty much all carriers, big and small, around the world pitching them to include at least one Windows Phone in their portfolios. Canada’s Videotron…