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When iOS was just starting out, many in the industry pointed at the lack of support for Adobe Flash as one of the key pain points that will hinder adoption of Apple’s new mobile operating system. What many failed to realize is that the only devices on the market that could even support Flash were…
Does anyone remember their first Nokia and how it used to have a model number that seemed like a random string of 4 digits? That changed back in 2005 with the introduction of the Nseries, then several years later with the Eseries, and more recently there’s been the Cseries and Xseries. Just as we’ve started…
On May 10th at the 2011 Google I/O conference, the search engine company announced that they were activating over 400,000 Android devices every single day. Today, via a tweet from Andy Rubin, the father of Android, pictured above wearing glasses, we now know that number is up to 500,000 per day, and more importantly it’s…
When it comes to enabling retailers to conduct transaction using near field communication (NFC) based technology, ViVOtech is a company that’s always being brought up by analysts and the media. According to Bloomberg, roughly 8 out of 10 NFC scanners deployed in the United States are made by ViVOtech. It shouldn’t surprise you then to…
Nokia announced “Nokia Money” back in late August 2009 and with it the promise to deliver a service that would let anyone with a mobile phone send and receive money using nothing more than a text message or phone call. Here we are, several days before the start of July 2011, and the Finnish handset…
Ericsson, the world’s largest provider of infrastructure equipment, has once again proved their technical know-how by showing off LTE-Advanced in Sweden. Using 60 MHz worth of aggregated spectrum by bonding 3x 20 MHz channels they were able to feed a van that was driving around the city of Kista with a 8×8 MIMO antenna about…
Opera Software, founded in 1995, has done so much for the web, yet has received hardly any recognition. They introduced the first browser with tabs, the first browser with gesture support, the first browser with a homepage that lets you quickly jump to your favorite websites, and most importantly they invented Opera Mini. While many…
In September 2010 Nokia got a new CEO, Canadian born and bred Stephen Elop. His appointment was controversial because of his former role as the Head of Microsoft’s Office Division. Questions began to arise as to whether or not Nokia would switch to Windows Phone and if Elop was nothing but a mere Trojan horse.…
In a few short days the first half of 2011 will come to a close and if you had to ask us about one particular technology that dominated the mobile landscape during that time, we’d probably say dual core smartphones. For the second half of this year we expect Android tablets to be the talk…
For all the bleeding edge smartphones we cover on a near 24/7 basis thanks to our international staff, it’s the mid range devices that actually ship in the largest quantities and have the most fans. One upcoming handset has us really excited because it’s actually something we would enjoy using; say hello to the Motorola…