EA is getting set to release one of 2012’s most highly anticipated games, Mass Effect 3, on March 6th. They will already dominate the PC, Xbox 360, and PS3 scene when the game is released, and they may also dominate your iOS device when Mass Effect Infiltrator is released on March 6th, too. During an…
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Samsung won’t be holding a press conference at MWC 2012
Recently, Samsung said it would not use the Mobile World Congress event to launch its flagship Samsung Galaxy S III and now it’s walking away from its headline event as well. In a move that may be more upsetting to the tech press than consumers, Samsung told PC Magazine that it won’t hold a press conference…
Mobile devices now responsible for 8.5% of all web traffic, Nokia phones dominate
One could argue that you don’t need a personal computer to function in today’s world. You can do pretty much everything anyone would ever want to do on the internet with just a mobile phone. That was Nokia’s message back in 2007 when they launched the N95 and told people to refer to it as…
Leak: LG Miracle, it’s a run of the mill Windows Phone that supposedly has NFC
Thanks to Microsoft’s insistence on controlling the system specifications of smartphones using their Windows Phone operating system, whenever anyone announces a new Windows Phone it’s kind of … well, boring. LG’s Miracle is a perfect example of this. This unannounced device was just leaked by the folks at Pocketnow, who say it has a 4…
Sprit announces fourth quarter 2011 earnings, 1.6M net subscribers and $1.3B loss
Sprint announced its quarterly earnings today and the news is mixed. On the plus side, Sprint added 1.6 million net subscribers, which is its best quarterly result in six years. It now has a total subscriber of about 55 million, an all-time high for the wireless carrier. The company sold 1.8 million iPhones in the…
End of an Era: Nokia to stop making phones in Finland, factories to be moved to China
Half a decade ago when I first started covering Nokia’s every single move, there were debates in many online forums about whether or not someone’s new Nokia smartphone was better just because it was “Made in Finland” instead of “Made by Nokia”. The former signaled to people that what they were using was not only…
Nokia starts rolling out Symbian Belle, Mac users left out in the cold
Yesterday evening Nokia announced that users of Symbian Anna devices can now update to the newest version of the operating system, Symbian Nokia Belle (see video below). Seeing as how I got my girlfriend a pink Nokia N8 for her birthday last autumn, I told her to rush over to my place with her smartphone…
Sony “Xperia Sola” trademark caught at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Even though it broke up with Ericsson, Sony plans to keep using the Xperia brand and has already announced first Sony-only-branded products at the CES – Sony Xperia ion and Sony Xperia S. Now the Japanese company has filed a trademark for “Xperia Sola” at United States Patent and Trademark Office, with that term (patent…
LG’s upcoming Optimus Vu has a 5-inch screen with 4:3 aspect ratio
LG is teasing us with a new, still unannounced device. Called Optimus Vu, it’s an Android smartphone with a huge 5-inch screen. However, there’s something special about that screen – it has a 4:3 aspect ratio which is kinda strange, prompting us to think about compatibility and how many of the existing apps will render…
LG hires Edward Norton and Daria Werbowy to promote LG Prada 3.0
LG and PRADA hired actor Edward Norton and Ukrainian/Canadian model Daria Werbowy as the faces of the global advertising campaign to launch the PRADA phone by LG 3.0. According to the official press release, both Norton and Werbowy “embody the core values behind the PRADA phone by LG 3.0” – stylish looks and smart functionality.…









