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Sprint, America’s third largest operator that’s currently running around Washington D.C. like a chicken without a head trying to stop AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile, just sent out a press invite for an event that they’re calling “Sprint’s Strategy Update”. It’s due to take place on October 7th at 09:30 in New York City and the…
The bean counters at iSuppli have put their thinking caps on, and after analyzing the current trends taking place in the mobile market they’ve come up with the prediction that during the year 2015 there will be 1.03 billion handsets sold, of which 54.5% will be what one might typically call a “smartphone”. To give…
Verizon’s roadmap for the next few months leaked onto the interwebs a little over three weeks ago. One of the devices on said roadmap was the Pantech Breakout, which we knew absolutely nothing about … until now that is. According to an anonymous tipster who sent an image to Android Central, the Breakout will be…
Earlier this month we saw the first live photos of the HTC Puccini, which is not only HTC’s first tablet to run Android Honeycomb, but also one of AT&T’s first LTE devices. Today we’ve got something a bit more juicy, the first live photos of the HTC Holiday, which promises to be AT&T’s first 4G…
Samsung, looking to attract some attention before IFA 2011 kicks off in Berlin and every consumer electronics company known to man starts flooding the inboxes of analysts, bloggers, and journalists with news of whatever shiny toy they’re announcing, has beaten everyone to the punch by revealing two devices today. The first, an update to the…
Group messaging has been on everyone’s radar since SXSW 2011 kicked off in March. How else would bloggers keep each other abreast about which brands are sponsoring (read: supplying an unlimited amount of free alcohol) the get togethers that would have otherwise never happened due to geographical issues? Three months later Apple would announce iMessage,…
There’s no way to put this nicely, USB modems are some of the most boring pieces of hardware in the mobile industry, or at least that’s what I used to believe until I got one that can access a test LTE network in Helsinki, Finland. Two problems that these modems have is that they require…
The BBC, with the help of Epitiro and around 44,600 volunteers who installed an Android application on their smartphone to test network coverage, has come to the conclusion that British operators are deceiving consumers when they make claims that their 3G network covers 90% of the island nation. The more realistic figure is 75% and…
Mozilla, the browser vendor that many credit with providing the first real viable alternative to Internet Explorer back in 2003 with “Phoenix”, which would later be renamed to Firefox, has announced that they’re starting work on a project called WebAPI. The goal is to “have consistent APIs that will work in all web browsers, no…
In early May of this year we got wind of a new HTC device codenamed “Bliss” that would be targeted at the opposite sex, meaning females. Most Android owners are men, and HTC, looking to expand their market, started work on what we think will amount to nothing more than just another Android phone, but…