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News coming of Taiwan suggests that Apple’s third generation iPad will have a battery that’s both thinner and lighter than the battery used in the current iPad 2. Said battery will also have a longer “service life”, which we assume means it’s able to go through an increased number of charge cycles before giving out…
Late last month we saw several speed tests done in the Chicago area on AT&T’s as yet to be officially launched 4G LTE network. The results of those speed tests were disappointing to say the least, but we gave AT&T the benefit of the doubt since we know it’s not fair to judge something that…
At a recent press meeting held by NVIDIA, CEO Jen-Hsun Huang claimed that by 2015 the company’s mobile chip division will grow by an order of magnitude to roughly $20 billion. Huang says that two out of every three Android tablets on the market have an NVIDIA chip inside, which would be impressive if it…
Samsung has accidentally confirmed the existence of the next Nexus device by uploading something called a “user agent profile”. Mobile phone makers create said files so developers and websites know the capabilities of the device a user is using to access their content. While it doesn’t provide a complete spec sheet, it does give some…
One day in the not too distant future we’ll look back at 2011 and the Nokia N9 and wonder what would have happened if the world’s largest mobile phone maker decided to bet their future on MeeGo and not Windows Phone. The N9 is a smartphone that many technology journalists have had a chance to…
Some pretty insane rumors are floating around the internets right now. People who have spoken to MeeGoExperts and NetbookNews say that Samsung is looking to take over MeeGo development, which was originally lead by Nokia, but sadly progress has recently slowed to a crawl after the Finnish handset maker decided to focus on Windows Phone.…
In what’s probably going to be deemed the ultimate use of crowdsourcing, Nokia is asking the internets to create the next version of their infamous ringtone. Said ringtone will be used in several models due to come out in 2012, and Nokia claims it will be preinstalled on over 100 million devices. If Nokia selects…
Deutsche Telekom, better known as T-Mobile, has told Bloomberg that they’ve recently started accepting preorders for the next Apple iPhone, but want to emphasize that they have absolutely no idea when it’ll come out, how much it’ll cost, or what new features the fifth generation Jesus Phone will bring to the table when it hits…
At IFA 2011 in Berlin, Nokia’s booth featured all the company’s latest handsets, specifically the recently announced 701, 700, and 600. On one of the 700 models at the show, a video was being looped that showed a Nokia handset we’ve never seen before. It looks like it runs Belle, the latest upgrade to Symbian,…
Google is huge in America, it’s big in Europe too, but for some strange reason they’re barely even considered a player in Asia. The most popular search engine in China, known as Baidu, recently took a note straight out of Google’s playbook and announced a new mobile operating system. The thing is though, unlike Android,…