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Cellular South, one of America’s smaller operators, has just announced that they’ll be offering their customers a new Android smartphone running Gingerbread (version 2.3) called the Samsung Admire. Curiously, they failed to mention when it’ll actually become available and how much it’s going to cost. Some public relations people sadly work in offices where lead…
Chinese infrastructure vendor and handset maker Huawei has just announced a new smartphone called the “Vision”. It sports the Qualcomm MSM 8255 processor, which is a 45 nanometer chip that has a 1 GHz Scorpion core and an Adreno 205 GPU. It’s the same chip that’s inside numerous Android smartphones, from the HTC Desire HD,…
According to David Drummond, Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer at Google, there are over 250,000 patents covering the smartphone stuffed in your pocket right now. That sort of bloated figure is due to the ease at which companies can get patents for any vaguely worded document they mail to the United States Patent…
The day has finally come, Clearwire has announced that they’ll switch from WiMAX, the Intel backed 4G standard that no one is supporting, to LTE, which nearly every operator in the world is either in the process of rolling out or has plans to roll out at some point in the future. They didn’t announce…
It’s funny, HTC makes some of the best Android devices on the market, from a specification and build quality perspective, but then they molest Google’s mobile operating system with their Sense overlay because they somehow think that as a hardware maker they understand software better than Google engineers. They then reach out to the community…
There used to be a time when you had to know what bands your operator was using in order to make sure that the mobile phone you were purchasing would connect to the network. These days almost every smartphone, and many feature phones, have quadband GSM/EDGE so you’ll be able to get call, texts, and…
No one could have predicted that the most popular genre of software for smartphones would have been games. When Apple launched the iPhone the App Store didn’t even exist, yet now it’s responsible for a sizable chunk of revenue for developers such as Gameloft. During the first half of 2010, the French gaming company scored…
In the “news that impacts 0% of our readers, but is strange enough to warrant sharing” category, reports from South Korea say that KT, the country’s second largest wireless operator, will immediately stop offering unlimited mobile data to customers using WiBro (the local version of WiMAX) because — and we’re not making this up —…
Marvell is a company you don’t hear about all too often these days. When it comes to the chips that power our favorite mobile devices, there’s a high probability that there’s Qualcomm silicon inside, followed by NVIDIA, and then finally Texas Instruments. That’s due to change according to a rumor from Semi Accurate, who says…
Despite cramped seats, numerous delays, and in some cases overbooking, traveling via the modern marvel of aviation is still the fastest and most convenient way to get to your destination. Creature comforts have been introduced over the past few decades to make the experience more tolerable, things like first class, free booze, priority boarding, and…