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Nokia’s PureView camera technology captured the hearts of the tech bloggers at Mobile World Congress last week. The camera technology featured in Nokia PureView results in images far better than we’ve ever seen in a camera phone, especially in the standard 5 to 8 megapixel output modes that occur when PureView mode is engaged. Interestingly,…
Apple hit its 25 billionth downloaded app over the weekend and the company announced both the winner and the app on Monday morning. The app was Where’s My Water? Free, a popular puzzle game from Disney. The winner was Chunli Fu of Qingdao, China who will receive a $10,000 iTunes gift card. This promotion shows…
TeliaSonera was the first operator in the world to launch a 4G LTE network. We’re talking December 2009 here, a full year before Verizon turned on their 4G LTE network. Now most people accessing said ridiculously high speed network have thus far been doing it via USB modems, but that’s just officially changed. TeliaSonera has…
Windows Phone fragmentation, for all intents and purposes, doesn’t exist. If you bought the first Windows Phones to roll off an assembly line back in 2010, then chances are you’re running the latest version of the OS. This will change by the time we reach the fourth quarter of this year. Let’s start with Tango,…
OnlineMBAprograms.org prepared a neat dark infographic to illustrate the true cost of making all those Apple products. And while we’re sure other OEMs have similar programs, the Cupertino giant is now one of the biggest companies in the world and is thus getting all the media attention, good and bad. Here are the highlights: The…
In its latest Digital Consumer Report, Nielsen talks about users’ responsiveness toward ads. The research has found that tablet and smartphone owners in Germany, Italy and the UK are more likely than Americans to make a purchase online via PC after viewing an ad on their tablet or smartphone. Of all nations surveyed, Italian device…
The brand new LG Optimus L3, you know the entry-level Android smartphone that actually doesn’t look like a cheap Chinese toy, is heading to Europe with select markets getting it by the end of this month. After European consumers got to taste this low-end device, the next stop is Russia, followed by Asia. If you’ve…
Aside from new phones, HTC also used Mobile World Congress to unveil new APIs, part of its HTC OpenSense SDK. The new set of developer tools includes Beats Audio API, Lockscreen API, Mobile Device Management API and soon a HTC MediaLink HD API — using which developers are able to enhance the audio experience of…
File this under “rumors,” cause we don’t have this officially confirmed, but it seems next T-Mobile myTouch devices will be made by Huawei, as illustrated by the image above. It is said that the Magenta carrier will be adding two Gingerbread phones, U8680 and U8730, both with a WVGA touchscreen with one of them also…
Google has something called the Nexus program whereby every year they partner up with a hardware maker and release one device that runs Android the way Google thinks Android should be run. It started with the Nexus One, then there was the Nexus S, and now we have the recently launched Galaxy Nexus. Rumor has…