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At some point during the summer, owners of Nokia hardware running Symbian^3 will get an over the air software update to a newer version of the operating system called Anna. It’s got rounded icons, an easier to use and faster web browser, and a lot of little tweaks that should noticeably improve the user experience.…
Straight from the salt mountains of Chile, we have a juicy rumor to report. Unnamed sources speaking to the folks over at Semi Accurate are saying that Texas Instruments is in the process of selling their OMAP division and that AMD is one of the few companies that couple potentially be the buyer. While most…
While we can sit here and have an argument about how useless it is to have a physical QWERTY keyboard on today’s modern smartphones, we’re just going to sidestep that debate and acknowledge that there is a sizable minority of people who will never, ever, give up the sensation of feeling a plastic key depress…
In late June Skype accidentally posted posted a video to their YouTube channel that showed off Skype for the iPad. Several hours after they noticed their folly, the video was pulled. Looks like the same thing just happened with the actual app. Just a few short hours ago Skype posted “Skype for iPad” in the…
Take a stroll to your local Best Buy and walk down the wireless aisle. Notice how most every smartphone on the market today looks the same? Hard angles, giant slabs of glass, no real differentiation until you hit the power button and see what sort of horrific changes the operators and handset makers put on…
Last week we reported on the monumental announcement that LightSquared is going to let Sprint build their 4G LTE network to the tune of $9 billon, along with $4.5 billion in “credits” that Sprint can use to pay LightSquared for access to said network, with the additional clause that Sprint can not use more than…
Nokia has just announced the 500, their first 1 GHz smartphone. It’s going to run the latest version of Symbian, known as Anna, have a 3.2 inch screen with a resolution of 640 x 360, 5 megapixel camera, quadband GSM/EDGE support, and pentaband (850/900/1700/1900/2100 MHz) 14.4 Mbps 3G support, meaning it’ll effectively have high speed…
Some of you may not know this, but Verizon is two separate companies. There’s Cellco Partnership, who is more commonly known as Verizon Wireless, and as the name implies is responsible for the smartphones, dumbphones, and portable hot spots that use their ever expanding network, and then there’s Verizon, period, who is leading the wired…
Spectrum, quite possibly the most expensive invisible thing you can buy, is absolutely crucial for the wireless industry to function. The Chief Executive Officers of six American operators (AT&T, Cellcom, Sprint, T-Mobile, U.S Cellular, and Verizon Wireless) recently sent a letter [PDF file] to President Obama asking if he could get the Department of Commerce’s…
Just under 3 months ago we reported, with great enthusiasm, that the CEO of NXP Semiconductors, Rick Clemmer (pictured above), predicted that by the end of this year over 100 million mobile phones with near field communication (NFC) support would ship. Today we’re sad to say that the company has revised their estimate, and that…