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Finland is, without a question in my mind, one of the safest places in the world. When people told me to avoid the Kallio district of Helsinki because it was “rough”, the first thing I did was visit it to see what all the fuss was about. Sure, there were drunk people running around, and…
Tumblr is blogging for the rest of us. You login, pick what kind of content you want to create, and then create it. The company has had an iOS app for what feels like forever, but it isn’t exactly a pleasure to use. You can do everything with the app that you can do on…
An experienced Android user will spend a countless number of hours scouring the internet looking for the best ROM to put on their device. There are plenty to choose from, certainly more than we care to name; one of the more popular ones is called MIUI. People say it’s the best attempt anyone has ever…
T-Mobile’s Chief Technology Officer, Neville Ray, stated the obvious during a presentation in San Francisco last week. Customers who have devices that can achieve a higher throughput will consume more data than customers who are stuck with “slower” speeds. To be more specific, T-Mobile customers with devices that have a 42 Mbps HSPA+ radio consume…
What happens when you take the best selling smartphone of 2011, replace the 800 x 480 screen it originally shipped with with a 720p display, and then slap a QWERTY keyboard on it for good measure? According to TmoNews, you get T-Mobile Samsung SGH-T699. Here is what they know about the device: It’ll ship with…
Six weeks ago we filed a report on an as yet to be announced Huawei smartphone called the M660. Back then all we had was an ultra low resolution press photo of the device. Today we have images of this thing in the wild. It’s still not official yet, but here’s what the folks at…
Microsoft is, at heart, a software company. Sure, they make keyboards and mice, and let’s not forget about the XBOX, but when it comes to devices that run their desktop and mobile operating systems, along with their office suite, Microsoft depends on their hardware partners. According to AllThingsD, those partners are about to get slapped…
LightSquared was supposed to change everything. In the summer of 2010 they announced that they were going to build a nationwide 4G LTE network that they’d then let businesses resell to consumers. To put it another way, they wanted to be a wholesale “dumb pipe”, and the people in charge even used that phrase when…
ARM, the British company that’s responsible for powering pretty much every mobile phone that’s currently in use, has announced a new graphics processor today. Dubbed the Mali-450, it’s being targeted at midrange devices that don’t need the power of the next generation Midgard graphics architecture we should expect to see in 2013 smartphones. While ARM…
Earlier this week Apple showed off the next version of their mobile operating system, iOS 6. It has a ton of tiny features that will probably add up to an impressive update, but there aren’t any stand out features that you can point to and classify as “magical”. Personally, I’m disappointed that multitasking wasn’t addressed…