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David Meyer, writing for ZDNet UK, wrote this on November 09, 2010: “At the Symbian Exchange & Exposition (SEE2010) in Amsterdam, the handset manufacturer — which said on Monday that it was bringing development of Symbian back in-house — said the first updates would include the addition of split-screen text entry, a QWERTY keyboard that…
Samsung, who many know from their rather large portfolio of Android smartphones and HDTV televisions, is also one of the world’s largest component suppliers. In fact, according to a recent article in The Economist, of the $178 worth of components Apple uses to make an iPhone 4, 25% of that money goes to Samsung. Two…
Verizon Wireless has just passed an important milestone. Only 8 months after turning on their 4G LTE network, they’ve managed to cover 160 million Americans in 117 cities with high speed wireless access. That’s half the population of the United States. The speeds they provide are nothing to laugh at either. In a nationwide test…
Last month the big news in the patent space was the $4.5 billion winning bid for Nortel’s portfolio of 6,000 patents. This week it was obviously Google’s purchase of Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, which includes their portfolio of 17,000 patents and 7,500 additional patents that are waiting to be approved, that showed us yet…
Remember Firefox and how cool it felt to be one of the few people you knew who used a browser other than Internet Explorer? Those days are long gone now thanks to people using either Chrome or Safari, both incredibly more polished and modern browsers, but that hasn’t broken the spirits of the folks at…
Best Buy, one of America’s largest brick and mortar stores supplying consumers with home and portable electronics, videogames, and just about anything else that runs on electricity, is rumored to have taken order of roughly 270,000 units of the HP TouchPad. Despite the new permanent $100 price cut, and the software updates that have gone…
Last week an infographic made by The Economist was floating around on the internet that we didn’t cover because … hey, there’s only so many inforgraphics you can shove in people’s faces before they get bored, right? Anyway, one of the key pieces of data in said graphic was that of the $178 worth of…
According to an anonymous source who spoke to Engadget, AT&T recently installed some 4G LTE equipment inside an as yet to be identified Apple Store. Said equipment pumps out LTE goodness at 700 MHz, which is no surprise, but also on the AWS bands that AT&T said it would use once their acquisition of T-Mobile…
With the back to school season shortly coming to a close, it’s the holiday shopping season that usually brings about the wireless industry’s most exciting devices. Case in point, there’s a rumored smartphone from HTC due to hit T-Mobile on October 26th codenamed “Ruby”. It’s going to be marketed as the “Amaze 4G”, and for…
Apple and Samsung aren’t exactly what you would call the best of friends. Despite Apple paying Samsung millions, most likely billions, of dollars for components every year that find their way inside many of Apple’s portable products, Samsung obviously competes with Apple in the consumer electronics game. Recently Apple successfully managed to get sales of…