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Earlier this week we reported on HTC’s $300 million acquisition of S3 Graphics and admitted absolute defeat when it came to conjuring up a theory as to what the smartphone maker was going to do with S3’s expertise in the PC graphics space. Turns out that the acquisition was purely over patents. Winston Yung, Chief…
American consumers have long been ignorant of the true price of their mobile phones. It’s not their fault, it’s operators who have been subsidizing handsets since the beginning of time. When Apple started selling the iPhone 4 unlocked for $650, people kind of sort of began to see the real cost of high end smartphones.…
Remember when push to talk was popular and while walking down the street you’d often hear someone’s phone make that infamous chirping sound before a muffled voice magically started coming out of their pocket? Our younger readers may not remember the late 90s and early 00s, but we sure do. Most people don’t use that…
South Korean handset maker LG is about to enter a world of pain. Yesterday they announced that they’re lowering their estimates for the number of devices they plan on selling during calendar year 2011. When it comes to smartphones, the original goal was to ship over 30 million units, that number is now 24 million,…
Being green is all the rage these days. Buy organic food, recycle the beer cans left over from your house party last night, switch to LED lightbulbs, all in the name of showing your friends that you care about something other than your favorite reality television show. Nokia’s looking to ride the eco-friendly phenomenon by…
In November 2010 at the Symbian Exchange and Exposition, Jo Harlow, Executive Vice President of Smart Devices at Nokia, said that in early 2011 Symbian would be getting an improved user experience, new browser, and split screen text entry. We’d find out 5 months later that this update has a name, Anna. It’s the latest…
HP’s recently launched tablet, the TouchPad, didn’t exactly get the type of reviews the company thought it deserved. Jon Rubinstein, the head of Palm, went so far as to claim that webOS is like Mac OS X, which had a rough start, but then grew up to become the best desktop operating system on the…
As we get closer and closer to the announcement of the 5th generation iPhone, which some are calling the iPhone 5 while others say it’ll be known as the iPhone 4S, rumors start flying out from the four corners of the web from people claiming to have “inside knowledge” from “sources” who know what the…
Apple is due to announce a new iPhone this year, to state the bleeding obvious, and depending on which websites you read you know it’s either going to be called the iPhone 5 or iPhone 4S. Several of the standout features of this next generation iPhone are (again, this is all rumors) an improved 8…
Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system, launched in October of last year, is due to get a major update this fall codenamed Mango. Some of the new features it’ll bring to the table are a new web browser based on the same code used to build Internet Explore 9 for Windows, multitasking support for third party…