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Images of an unannounced Motorola device called the EX225 have turned up on the Bluetooth SIG’s site. They say it’s a 3G phone with a 2.4 inch screen, full QWERTY keyboard, dual SIM capabilities, and that it’s a “product for [the] trendy generation”. The folks at Unwired View, who made this discovery, have blown up…
New numbers from the bean counters at IDC have been released and they show that finally, after the first smartphone, the Nokia 7650, was introduced in Q2 2002, the smartphone category has ended the reign of the dumbphone. The defeat wasn’t really a landslide, 21.8 million smartphones versus 20.4 million million dumbphones that shipped in…
HTC has been sending various members of the press an invite for an event that’s due to take place on the 20th of September in New York City. The invitation reads “Come celebrate in style with HTC“, which makes us think that they’re going to show off the long awaited “Bliss” smartphone. When we first…
The engineers at Marvell have announced the PXA1801, which they claim to be the “Industry’s First Single-chip World Modem” thanks to the ridiculous amount of standards it supports. Their modem does both flavors of LTE, meaning it’ll handle Verizon’s full division duplex LTE and Sprint’s as yet to launch time division duplex LTE network; it’ll…
The differences between Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android are more than just widgets and the quality of apps. Data proves that people who use iOS are more likely to pay for applications, whereas Android folks would rather be cheapskates and have their apps include a barrage of advertising. The British newspaper The Guardian recently released…
Google and Oracle are in a fierce court battle right now over Java, which was developed by Sun Microsystems, who today doesn’t exist since they were swallowed up by Oracle in 2010. Before that acquisition took place, Andy Rubin, who is considered to be the “Father of Android”, was pleading with Sun to make Java…
The mobile industry is foaming at the mouth at this point, waiting for news on what Apple is going to bring to the table with their fifth generation iPhone. T-Mobile Germany even started taking preorders for the iPhone 5, or iPhone 4S depending on who you talk to, because they think it’s going to be…
Over in South Korea images of an LG Android smartphone that’ll be called the “Optimus Note” have surfaced. Similar to the LG Optimus Black, which was “the world’s thinnest smartphone” for about 30 seconds thanks to the release of the downright anorexic 8.5 mm thick Samsung Galaxy S II, the Optimus Note sports a 4…
Facebook has just pushed out version 3.5 of their iPhone app to Apple’s App Store. The changelog says it’s added the ability to tag friends and places in posts, and to share sites you’re exploring in the web browser; note that they mean the web browser inside their app, not Safari. If you want to…
Researchers at Rice University have figured out how to double mobile data transmission rates without the need to increase the number of cell towers that a network uses. To understand how they did it, you need to know how current mobile networks work. The mobile phones of today use two spectrum channels, think of a…