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Most of us use our smartphones at a healthy rate, occasionally checking email, talking or texting friends, surfing the web, or playing some games throughout a regular day. Some smartphone users, however, obsessively cling to their phones night and day. This smartphone addiction gets so intense that these users are reporting hearing “phantom vibrations” —…
Nokia and Microsoft’s ambitious marketing push in the US is about to begin. After a CES where Nokia CEO Stephen Elop hit not one, but three presentations in one day, the Finnish handset maker is now rolling out new commercials for its first two US handsets- the Lumia 710 and the Lumia 900. The 710 is Nokia’s entry-level Windows Phone handset. It’ll debut…
A couple of days ago we posted a story which had Morgan Stanley predicting 37 million Nokia handsets will ship in 2012. I wrote my concerns about numbers I felt were potentially too optimistic. Well, the folks over at TechRadar spotted a completely different spin on the story, which brings some validations to such a lofty prediction.…
Great news for you Motorola Xoom owners out there. The handset maker has started rolling out Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) updates to both WiFi and LTE versions of the tablet as of yesterday. Everyone knew the Xoom would get the ICS upgrade when Motorola outlined its plan of devices to receive the latest and…
Since 2006, we’ve come accustomed to the usual Apple iPhone rumors as the new year rolls in. Well, the latest “report” claims the Cupertino-based company’s next-generation iPhone will be slimmer than the current iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S models. This has been talked about for months as many have suggested a new redesign of the…
In a Nokia developer newsletter sent out on Thursday, the Finnish handset maker confirmed the Lumia 900 will launch in March. It’s abundantly clear as the newsletter reads, “The Nokia Lumia 900 phone runs Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5. It is the biggest and fastest smartphone yet. And it will become available exclusively through AT&T in March.” It’s nice to know that the handset is…
California, in an effort to be more Eco-friendly, yesterday voted to require handset makers to ship energy-efficient battery chargers starting in 2013. This new requirement includes cellphones, tablets and hundreds of other electronic devices. Of course, such a progressive move was rejected by consumer product makers, but that didn’t matter as the California Energy Commission…
We have good news for those of you out there who were able to grab yourself an HP TouchPad during the fire sale in hopes of one day running Android on it. The folks over at CyanogenMod have been diligently working to resurrect the dead webOS tablet, and their efforts seem to be finally paying off. The…
We prepared a chart showing all devices U.S. carriers announced at the CES in Las Vegas as well as “other notable devices” we think are cool. Moving your mouse over each phone will show a larger image and clicking on it will get you to an appropriate post with more details. Check it out here…
Motorola unveiled a new iDEN Android smartphone in Brazil – i940. Available through the local branch of Nextel, it can be bought in Casas Bahia and Ponto Frio stores for 1,199 reais which translates into about $670. That’s a lot of money for what Moto i940 has to offer. Basically, it’s a rugged, mid-range smartphone…