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Every iPhone until the iPhone 4S has come out in either June or July. For reasons we may never come to understand, today’s iPhone, the iPhone 4S, came out in October. That thew a lot of people off, and we have numbers to prove that: iPhone sales in Apple’s fiscal Q4 2011 came in at…
Finland, Finland, Finland, country where I want to be! No seriously, I’ve called this place home since July 2007. Two things that Finland doesn’t have that most of the world does: Starbucks and RIM’s BlackBerry smartphones. Is that really a bad thing when you think about it? Anyway, things are going to change in April.…
Despite Nokia Siemens Networks laying off 17,000 employees, that doesn’t mean that the company has stopped innovating. Today they’ve announced that they’re going to perform the world’s first public demo of HSPA+ Multiflow at Mobile World Congress later this month. So what the hell is it and why should you care? Right now your smartphone…
LG has just announced three new Android smartphones under their new “L-Style” brand name. One of them we’ve already known about for a while now, the L3. It has a 3.2 inch screen with a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels, runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and should go on sale as early as next month.…
Qualcomm’s got a new hardware platform coming sometime in Q2 of this year called the S4. It’s going to show up in a lot of Android smartphones, so we were delighted when the folks at AnandTech published their early benchmarks of the new chip earlier this morning. Before we get to the numbers, let’s talk…
Thanks to sites like the FCC and the Bluetooth SIG, devices that aren’t yet announced sometimes end up being inadvertently leaked. The latest of such leaks is the Nokia Lumia 719. According to the Bluetooth SIG it has the exact same specifications as the Lumia 710, and it’s meant for the North American, South American,…
So we heard Panasonic is preparing to enter European smartphone market, but up until this point we didn’t have a single device to show you. Enter Eluga, the Japanese company’s first Android device “made for export.” It’s a thin (7.8mm) phone with a 4.3-inch qHD (540×960 pixels) touchscreen, that’s also pretty durable — IP57-certified against…
ZTE will use Mobile World Congress to announce two solid smartphones, PF200 and N910, both of which offer LTE connectivity while running the latest version of Android (Ice Cream Sandwich). The first of the two rocks a 4.3-inch qHD touchscreen, 1.2GHz chipset (dual-core?), 8-megapixel rear-facing camera, 1080p front-facing camera, UMTS-based 3G (in addition to LTE),…
Samsung decided to rush a bit and announce two new phones before Mobile World Congress – GALAXY Ace 2 and GALAXY mini 2. First of the two is a better device, sporting a dual-core processor clocking at 800MHz, 3.8-inch WVGA touchscreen, HSPA and Wi-Fi connectivity, 5-megapixel rear-facing camera with auto-focus and flash, VGA front-facing one,…
With Mobile World Congress just around the corner, we decided to share some information about the mobile industry’s biggest event. More precisely, we wanted to share what we think are the 5 things mobile enthusiasts should know about it. Let’s roll, shall we? 1. Mobile World Congress is by far the biggest industry gathering in…