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Let’s set the scene: June 23, 2007, the first generation iPhone has been out for less than a month, Nokia issues a press release announcing that they’re going to blow an undisclosed amount of money (rumored to be $97 million) on a web service no one has ever heard of: Twango. See, Nokia isn’t a…
There’s a tiny company in Norway that’ll forever remain in my heart, Opera Software. Back in August 2005 they released a beta version of Opera Mini, a browser that let anyone with a feature phone surf the internet. What made this possible was server-side rendering technology. Instead of a device grabbing all the HTML, JavaScript,…
Walmart, Target and some two dozen other retailers don’t like the fact that Google and/or major carriers (through Isis Mobile) will get to “control” mobile payments. According to The Wall Street Journal’s report, retailers want to get an upper hand in this fast-moving space. Unfortunately we don’t have all the details at the moment, but…
Guess who’s moving to higher realms of the smartphone market? Alcatel! No they’re not out with a quad-core device, not even a dual-core one, but a decent single-core model with a 4.3-inch WVGA screen and Qualcomm’s processor clocking at 1.4GHz. In addition, the newly announced One Touch Ultra 995 also packs a 5-megapixel camera on…
Samsung Galaxy S Advance, you know that Sammy smartphone that sits somewhere between the original Galaxy S and Galaxy S II, has been spotted at the FCC, where the government-employed engineers got to play with it before it’s potentially introduced to the U.S. market. We say “potentially,” since the fact that some device gets FCC’s…
If you don’t care to have the latest and greatest piece of technology and would rather prefer form over function high-end specs, Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S is one of the phones to consider buying. This is especially true now that it’s available for 199 GBP on PAYG from Dial-a-Phone. You’ll have to also get…
Aside from all the new phones, LG also unveiled a new wireless charger at Mobile World Congress – WCD-800. Designed in the shape of a cradle, it allows users to position their phone vertically to make video calls and send text messages, or horizontally to watch movies while charging. As with other wireless chargers, you…
The LG Optimus, arguably the most forgettable device at Mobile World Congress, is going on sale today in South Korea. It’s going to cost 999,900 won, which comes out to roughly $885. That’ll get you a 4:3 aspect ratio 5 inch display that pushes 1024 x 768 pixels, a dual core 1.5 GHz Snapdragon processor…
Samsung’s ridiculously large 5.3 inch Galaxy Note has thus far been sold in just two different colors: classy black, and gorgeous white. Today at CeBIT, which is kind of like the European version of the Consumer Electronics Show, the folks at Engadget spotted a pink Galaxy Note dummy unit. When they asked Samsung whether or…
Android applications hosted by Google and available in the Android Market normally have to be a maximum of 50 MB in size. Today that changes … kind of. The APK file you upload to the Android Market still has to be 50 MB in size, but now Google is giving developers 4 GB worth (in…