Nokia used its Conversations blog to unveil the new white Lumia 800. Under the hood, the handset is identical to the cyan, magenta and black version which launched late last year. On the surface, you will get a snowy white casing that nicely accents the curved black display. According to Nokia, this isn’t some cheap…
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Samsung Galaxy S III to land in May with 7mm thin profile
While we may not see the Samsung Galaxy S III at Mobile World Congress this year, some more details about the highly anticipated handset have been revealed that may make your geeky mouth water. Or not. With the prospects of a quad-core Galaxy S III, the expectations for the handset are already pretty high. We…
Android, iPhone account for over 90 percent of smartphone sales
Google and Apple’s mobile operating systems continue to dominanate, as Android and iPhone accounted for over 90 percent of smartphone sales, according to the latest research from The NPD Group. The little green robot garnered 48 percent of the smartphone market during last quarter, while iOS handsets took in 43 percent. The study also shows that…
Verizon and Redbox to launch online and mobile video service
Verizon and Coinstar/Redbox announced on Monday a joint venture LLC company that’ll bring a subscription video service to Verizon customers. Verizon will own a 65 percent stake in the venture and Redbox will hold the remaining 35 percent. Details on the agreement were sparse, but the pair did say the joint venture will mix both online…
Super Bowl: Mobile searches up during the game [Infographic]
The Big Game is over and New York Giants fans are probably still celebrating but Google is back to work, dropping some knowledge about what were the popular searches during the Super Bowl. There were a lot of searches about Madonna, Tom Brady and more but what really interests me is the shift to mobile…
AT&T’s throttling limit as low as 2 GB in some areas?
AT&T announced last year that it will throttle customers on unlimited data plans who use excessive amounts of data. AT&T said it will throttle only the top 5 percent of unlimited users and, initially, this appeared to affect customers pulling down 10 to 12 GB per month. Recent reports from John Cozen, who works for…
Facebook soon bringing ads to smartphones, tablets
Now that Facebook has filed for an IPO, we knew it might lead to some changes for the world’s largest social network. Well, a new report from the Financial Times reports that we could start to see some advertising on its mobile products in the coming weeks. The report suggests that advertising on mobile Facebook…
Watching the Super Bowl on NFL Mobile was 80% successful
Last night, I took the opportunity to check out Verizon’s NFL Mobile app and watched the entire Super Bowl game on my Galaxy Nexus. I’m a cord cutter and don’t have cable so watching it on the small screen was my only option. After watching the game on 4G, 3G and WiFi, I’m happy to say the stream was a resounding success. I’d…
HTC: Our Q1 2012 revenues are going to be down by about 36%, we just have to keep on hustlin’
With hindsight we can pinpoint the exact day when HTC’s demise began: April 12, 2011. That’s the day that the HTC Sensation was announced, the device that on paper was better than Samsung’s Galaxy S II, but in reality was an incredibly disappointing pile of plastic, metal, and glass. Two quarters after the Sensation hit…
Apple A5 has custom noise canceling circuitry on the actual chip itself
One key difference between smartphones running Android and the Apple iPhone is that the former depends on processors from the likes of Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, or NVIDIA, while the latter builds their processors in-house. Now this wasn’t always the case. The first few iPhones used off the shelf chips designed and manufactured by Samsung, but…









