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Rogers Wireless’ owned Fido is preparing to spice up its portfolio on January 10th with two hot Android smartphones – Motorola RAZR and Samsung Galaxy Nexus. The first of the two has been officially confirmed by Motorola Canada (via Twitter), while the second one is still in the “rumor phase.” It is said that the…
Spreadtrum is a Chinese company you’ve likely never heard of, yet they’re responsible for 50% of all the TD-SCDMA devices sold by China Mobile, which by the way has over 600 million subscribers. In other words, they’re big, just not well known outside of their home country. So what do they actually do? They’re quite…
Beginning January 16th the people of Chile will have the right to port their existing phone numbers to a new operator thanks to a new number portability law. It’s something that many Europeans and Americans have been enjoying for some time now, so it’s nice to see the practice come to other countries. What makes…
One year after Steve Jobs got up on stage and presented the iPad to the world, Motorola showed off an Android Honeycomb powered tablet at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show called the Xoom. It was ugly, buggy, and boy was it expensive. Now you didn’t have to be a rocket scientist to see that Google…
Analysts from ABI Research have come to the conclusion that WiMAX is officially going the way of the dodo thanks to TD-LTE. They say that by the end of 2016 we’ll see more than half a million TD-LTE cell towers deployed all over the world, with the majority of them being in China. “It was…
When Stephen Elop became the CEO of Nokia back in September 2010, everyone was a bit suspicious as to what he was going to do to the Finnish handset maker. Less than half a year later in February 2011 he got up on a stage in London and announced that Nokia would be getting rid…
Wal-Mart jumped into mobile commerce when it formed WalmartLabs, a division of the company that tests new mobile and social products. This incubator just got bigger thanks to its recent acquisition of Small Society, an iOS app development firm with several recognizable clients like Starbucks, Zipcar and Whole Foods. Small Society will work with the…
We’re all looking forward to new hardware when the Consumer Electronics show starts next week, but don’t expect all the big mobile companies to unveil their flagship products. According to an investor note from JP Morgan Chase analyst Alvin Kwok, HTC will withhold its NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core handsets and announce them at MWC in…
SugarSync, a cloud storage and syncing service that competes with the more familiar Dropbox, updated its apps for iOS and Android today with some new features for media content. The iPhone and iPad get some cool new tools for keeping photos in sync, while Android gets an even more impressive way to sync your videos…
Verizon Wireless CFO Fran Shammo revealed that the carrier activated a record 4.2 million Apple iPhones during the holiday season. The largest carrier in the United States set another record, as the company turned on service for 2.2 million LTE devices in the fourth quarter. Verizon barely missed its lofty goal of 11 million iPhones sold…