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Huawei is a smaller handset manufacturer, best known for its battle with the US government over a billion dollar hardware contract with Sprint. Besides networking hardware, the Chinese company makes inexpensive phones for smaller carriers like Leap Wireless and MetroPCS. In 2012, the manufacturer plans to take it up a notch and ship LTE phones with major carriers like Verizon…
Voice control is a growing mobile trend and Nuance is one of the leaders in this field. It has a variety of mobile products including Dragon Go!, a voice assistant that launched on iOS last year and is now available for Android. Dragon Go! is a search assistant that lets you talk to your phone and…
Last week Samsung expanded its portfolio of products to include a new line of wired headsets. The “your sound” line has four new models like the entry-level EHS-60, the active EHS-63, the advanced EHS-70 and the audiophile-quality EHS-73. The EHS-60 “Serious Sound” is an entry-level set of earphones that include background noise isolation, an inline…
This American Life host Ira Glass aired an excerpt from “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs”, a one-man show from Mike Daisey that chronicles his journey to Shenzen, China. Intrigued by a set of iPhone photos taken by a Foxconn worker, Daisey flew to China to meet some of the workers who assemble these coveted Apple devices. Unlike many…
At a press event today at CES, AT&T, Microsoft and Nokia jointly announced the high-end Lumia 900, the first 4G LTE Windows Phone handset from Nokia. It was a star-studded event with Stephen Elop, Steve Ballmer and Ralph de la Vega on stage at the same time. As expected, the Lumia 900 is Nokia’s flagship…
Motorola’s expanding its RAZR lineup with the purple Droid Razr and the Droid Razr MAXX. The purple Razr is self-explanatory, while the Razr MAXX appears to a Droid Razr with better battery life. According to Verizon’s press release, the Razr MAXX is only 8.99 mm thick, has 32 GB of storage, 21 hours of battery life…
Verizon and Motorola teamed up today to finally announce the Droid 4. The carrier is touting the handset as the “thinnest and more powerful 4G LTE Qwerty smartphone” in Verizon Wireless’ lineup and the specs appear to support this claim. The Droid 4 is a razor-thin half-inch thick and sports a dual-core 1.2 GHz processor, 1…
AT&T’s Ralph de la Vega invited Steve Ballmer onto the stage to talk about Microsoft’s upcoming LTE Windows Phone handsets. AT&T will kick off its lineup with the high-end HTC Titan II, one of the first high-speed WP handsets to land in the US. The Titan II is the next version of the Titan, one…
AT&T rounded out its CES presentation with the announcement of six new Android handsets including the: Sony Xperia Ion: a high-end handset that’ll launch in Q2 2012 Samsung Skyrocket HD: another high-end handset in the Galaxy S2 lineup Samsung Galaxy Note, the phone-tablet with a custom stylus/pen. The Note will be available in blue or…
AT&T used its Developers Summit at CES to lay out the advantages of its LTE network and how that’ll help developers. In a comment directed at Verizon, the carrier points out it’s the only one with 4G speeds on both its HSPA+ and LTE networks. AT&T rolled out HSPA+ in 2010 as a stopgap measure while…