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Nokia has bet its future on Windows Phone, so how has its Lumia lineup been doing so far? Well, according to a report from Bloomberg, Nokia has sold roughly 1.3 million units through the end of last year. Nokia released the Lumia 800 and the 710 last year – roughly six months after it signed…
It’s been a while since we’ve heard the name Notion Ink being thrown around but it’s resurfaced with the promise of the Adam II. No real details for the upcoming tablet have been released, other than the fact that the Indian company has partnered with Texas Instruments to run the show and that the device…
If you thought the current crop of cameras in smartphones are good, then you probably can’t wait to see what the next generation of devices will have with the just-introduced image CMOS sensors from Sony. The main appeal of the new back-illuminated CMOS image sensors is that it will be able to fit into even…
Musician Lukáš Kmit was in front of a crowd at an Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Presov, Slovakia playing his viola. In the middle of his performance, a Nokia phone ringer went off and Kmit paused. Rather than berate the embarrassed audience member like the conductor of the New York Philharmonic, Kmit decided to have some fun by playing the ringtone back…
One of the most fascinating trends is that of collaborative consumption – the idea that peer-to-peer marketplaces can disrupt existing markets while improving consumers’ choices and pocket books – and companies like RelayRides and Getaround are are using mobile apps to help in the process of renting other people’s cars. I recently used the Getaround…
In an effort to make location-based services more relevant, Sony will include Russia’s GLONASS system (alongside American GPS) in its future Xperia phones. Heck, two new devices announced at the CES — Xperia ion and Xperia S — already come with this capability. The idea is simple – more satellites mean better positioning. So instead…
Sony will most definitely unveil new device at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. One of the phones that could be announced is the ST25i aka Kumquat, and we’re happy to report we have the first leaked photo of the device to share. As you can see from the image above, this baby is…
The basic check-in service is not good enough for Foursquare – the company needs to expand to actually start making some serious money. As part of their newly rolled Explore feature, they’ve teamed-up with SinglePlatform to deliver pricing menus for more than 250,000 local businesses across 13,000 markets in the U.S. Whether it’s a spa,…
You may’ve heard about Jotly, a new mobile app that lets you rate everything. Yes that’s right everything – not just food, sights, movies or books – everything, including girls on the street, after-noon weather and every single tree in a park — EVERYTHING! Up until this moment it was available for the iPhone users…
AppTech’s new ReconAge Android app rocks. Relying on a proprietary technology developed in partnership with Cognitec Tecnologia Brazil and data processing specialist BrScan Tecnologia, it can recognize the approximate age of anyone using the phone’s built-in camera to Available as a free download, the application is made to demonstrate the power of this patented technology…