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Yesterday Nokia announced Belle, their forthcoming update to Symbian, along with the first three devices that will (hopefully) be shipping by the end of this quarter with Belle onboard. The cheapest of those three devices, the Nokia 600, comes in at around $260 before taxes and subsidies. Today Nokia announced two new devices, the 100…
The government of South Korea is quite happy that Samsung, their prized possession, will now be getting some legal assistance when it comes to dealing with their Android related court battles, but at the same time they view Google’s recent $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola as grounds to start work on their own mobile operating…
Update: Plenty of videos added to the bottom of this article! As we expected, Nokia just announced Symbian Belle, the successor to Symbian Anna, which as of right now is a whopping 5 days old and is still in the process of being rolled out to various territories. Back to Belle, the user interface gets…
Earlier this year we got wind of the codenames for the next two versions of Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system: Tango and Apollo. It’s been widely speculated that Apollo will be Windows Phone 8 and that Tango will be a small update similar to the NoDo update that Microsoft issued earlier this year. Thanks to…
Dish Network, a company you typically associate with satellite based television, has 40 MHz worth of spectrum that’s currently sitting unused. They’ve asked the Federal Communications Commission if they can use said spectrum to build out an LTE-Advanced network that will cover the United States. No dates were mentioned as to when said network would…
When you sit down and think about how many companies have come out with tablets running Google’s Android operating system, it’s kind of funny that HTC isn’t one of those said companies; the Flyer doesn’t count since it runs the smartphone version of Android, not Honeycomb. Anyway, earlier this summer we got a peak at…
Just yesterday we reported on the official announcement of the LG Optimus Sol, which we think is one of, if not the most, boring Android phones to ever grace this planet. How is it possible then that the same company can come out with devices like the E906 running Windows Phone Mango? Said smartphone sports…
Nokia’s Developer site was recently defaced by Indian Hacker “pr0tect0r AKA mrNRG”. He wasn’t there to steal data, instead he just just wanted to point out how little security Nokia was using. In a statement on the site, he says: “LOL, Worlds number 1 mobile company but not spending a dime for a server security!…
Verizon Wireless, in a public relations stunt that we hope they’ll never pull again, issued 21 separate press releases naming cities that will get access to their 4G LTE network on September 15th. Let’s get this out of the way: Kalamazoo, Michigan; Saginaw, Michigan; Las Cruces, New Mexico; El Paso, Texas; Wichita Falls, Texas; Austin,…
Nokia’s Facebook page has a funky countdown timer that’s set to hit zero at around 08:45 in the morning (New York time) on Wednesday, and it says “It’s time to try something new on Symbian”. The folks at Engadget noticed that the filename of said countdown timer is “belle_fb_TeaserMain”, and it doesn’t take a rocket…