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The latest phone shipment numbers are out from IDC and you have a few familiar faces at the top but the rise of ZTE and the lack of Motorola and Research In Motion from the top five gives us some interesting fodder to talk about. The IDC report said Nokia is still the dominant phone…
We all know that the Verizon iPhone will be a big hit but how many units will it sell? Well, at least one analyst is saying that this will be huge: 19 million feature phone users may switch over to the Apple smartphone on Big Red. Analyst William Power of R.W. Baird & Co. got…
We know that the Motorola Atrix 4G will be hitting AT&T in late February but we haven’t heard much about the price yet. We’re expecting it to retail for the standard $199 with a new, two-year contract but it appears like Costco will be undercutting AT&T and offering the superphone for $150. This is according…
We all know that the HP/Palm Feb. 9 event will unveil webOS tablets but we haven’t heard when these devices will actually ship. New CEO Leo Apotheker told the BBC that the company will ship the products announced a few weeks after the introduction. “HP will stop making announcements for stuff it doesn’t have. When…
I own an Apple iPad and I like the device but I don’t think it’s “magical” or “iconic” and feel like many of its early apps weren’t that good. As developers get used to the larger screen size and use cases, we’re starting to see cool, useful programs like the Appetites iPad cookbook I saw…
If you thought Research In Motion couldn’t make BlackBerry Messenger any more addictive, you’re wrong, as leaks suggests the next version will include gaming. Reports suggest that the BlackBerry Messenger 6 will include some form of social gaming. Not much is known about this but it likely will include either games within the Messenger system…
While MacWorld is nowhere near the powerhouse it used to be when Apple used this show to unveil the original iPhone years ago, there are still a few cool things to be found at the show like the SkySafari iPad app which lets you use your iOS device to control a telescope. The SkySafari iPad…
Microsoft had a great second quarter with $19.95 billion in revenue and $6.63 billion in profit but the company hasn’t exactly been crowing about the success of Windows Phone 7 and that may not be a great sign for the just-launched smartphone platform. The company has already said that it has sold 2 million Windows…
The upcoming Mobile World Congress trade show will bring a bunch of new handsets and some of the pieces are starting to fall into place. Today, we’re getting a look at an unnamed HTC Android phone with Verizon branding that should be revealed in just a few, short weeks. Not much is know about this…
Yeah, we’re still clamoring for 4G LTE but a recent tech demonstration out of Korea shows that the next-next generation of mobile broadband will be crazy fast. A recent test of LTE-Advanced showed this technology can get up to 600 Mbps. If you don’t know, LTE-Advanced is the next generation of mobile broadband after Long-Term…