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Who was the first North American operator to launch a 4G LTE network? If you said Verizon, you’d be wrong. That honor goes to MetroPCS, one of the smaller regional operators with a little under 9 million subscribers. Their first device 4G LTE device was a Samsung feature phone that we won’t even bother mentioning.…
Dear Google: Today started out like any other day. After opening my eyes and wiping the drool off the edge of my lips I reached for my iPhone and began what I call “the cycle”. First, open up “Sunrise Sunset Lite“, a neat little application that uses my current location to calculate when dawn and…
According to The New York Times there’s this guy, Joseph Holmes, who is an award winning photographer. One of his recent projects involved touring the streets of New York City and pointing his lens at people ferociously focused on their mobile devices. He calls his 20 photo Flickr set “Texters”. Now it isn’t up to…
It wasn’t that long ago that photos taken with camera phones were absolutely horrible. Nokia aimed to change that with the introduction of the Nseries brand, and some would say that the N95, launched back in early 2007 with a 5 megapixel sensor and Carl Zeiss optics, was the first real smartphone you could confidently…
Anyone remember the significance of 9.9.99? That was the day Sega launched their last hardware console in America, the Dreamcast. Despite featuring an extraordinary amount of brilliant titles, graphics that were never before seen on a dedicated gaming device, and an onboard modem so you could actually use the thing to connect to the internet,…
There’s an odd group of people living among us, a part of society that for one reason or another wants to modify their mobile phone with custom software, often at the risk of losing their warranty. Within this group the number one reason you’ll hear justifying their need to roll out their own bits is…
Last month we wrote about a device launched in Turkey called the Huawei Sonic, a smartphone that we thought was special because it was cheap (less than 200 Euros) and featured near field communication (NFC) support. Would it come over to American shores we began asking ourselves … turns out the answer is yes. Thanks…
Apple’s iPhone 4 launched in June of last year on AT&T and has proven to be one of the most popular mobile phones, smart or not, to ever hit the market. Many will have different reasons for picking it up, some need to wipe the drool off their face after taking a look at the…
Ask any mobile developer what’s the current hot topic in the wireless industry is, and he’ll likely tell you the ensuing battle between mobile applications and mobile websites. With the former you can offer a rich user experience that better integrates with the capabilities of the respective platform it’s running on, while the latter can…
Before the advent of capacitive touch screen technology, many devices on the market came with the resistive variant that required strong physical presses. Such devices, usually personal digital assistants, better known as PDAs, came with an accessory called a stylus. Show one to a teenager and they’ll laugh that such a concept existed, but Apple…