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Let’s be honest, Windows Phone isn’t exactly a success. Everyone in the media says that it has incredible potential, that it’s beautiful, and that it’s the freshest take on a mobile smartphone operating system they’ve ever seen, but has that praise translated into actual sales? No. It hasn’t. Anyone remember the Palm Pre? Anyway, for…
Earlier this month at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas we saw Nokia unveil their first “real Windows Phone” for the U.S. market, the Lumia 900. It’s basically the Lumia 800, but with a larger 4.3 inch screen, front facing camera, and AT&T 4G LTE connectivity. Those of us living on the other side…
Orange and the Wikimedia Foundation are teaming-up to provide more than 70 million Orange customers in Africa and the Middle East (AMEA) with free mobile access to Wikipedia. The goal of the partnership is to “make knowledge more easily available to Orange mobile customers,” while getting some press love along the way. And since it’s…
Mobile VoIP provider Vopium updated its iPhone app, allowing users to top-up their accounts via in-app payments, instead of having to enter credit card details for calls to non-Vopium users (i.e. mobile phones and landlines). In addition, version 2.1 also comes with presence indication of Vopium contacts for push-notification-based calling. This feature is said to…
Remember the Vintage Camera app we talked about a month ago? Well since then it has hit and surpassed 3 million downloads in the Apple AppStore, which is an impressive figure. Moreover, the free version has reached the #1 most downloaded app of all free apps in iTunes Japan and iTunes Thailand during Christmas holidays,…
All those iOS and Android users are not enough for Taptu – they are now going for the select Bada users as well, namely folks with Samsung Wave M and Wave 3 smartphones. As far as I know this is the first time a decent social news reader is launching on Sammy’s proprietary platform and…
Epson launched the iProjection app for iOS-based devices, allowing users to wirelessly display documents and photos to Epson projectors. Available as a free download, the application is compatible with a number of file formats, including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Apple Keynote, Adobe PDF, and JPEG and PNG image files. And aside from working with local…
Think tablets are selling like hot cupcakes? Check out Ultrabooks, those super-thin laptops that look like the MacBook Air. According to Juniper Research, shipments of these devices will grow at three times the rate of tablets over the next five years. However, tablets volume will remain higher, with 253 million shipped in 2016, compared with…
Nokia may not be doing so hot in the smartphone market, but when it comes to feature phones they’re still kicking ass and taking names. The Finnish handset vendor has just announced that they’ve sold 1.5 billion feature phones running their proprietary S40 operating system. The 1.5 billionth device was purchased by Mayara Rodrigues, age…
While we already figured the Samsung Galaxy S III would be announced during Mobile World Congress next month, a tweet from Eldar Murtazin has further confirmed this, along with a few specs of the handset. HD resolution, 12 mpx camera, sw tweaks, android 4 – i like my new phone. Eager to see official announcement…