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Our Chinese readers better be sitting down right now, we just found out about a new whopper of a device from Motorola called the XT882. What makes this thing special is that inside there’s a dual core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, support for two active SIM cards, and should you want to roam onto a…
Back in February of this year HTC launched an Android smartphone known as the ChaCha. It’s unique for two reasons. First, it’s one of the few Android devices that come in what many refer to as the “BlackBerry form factor”, otherwise known as “QWERTY monoblock” in industry parlance. Second, it has a dedicated Facebook button…
Motorola announced a dual core LTE enabled Android smartphone called the Droid Bionic exactly 5 months ago today; so why hasn’t it shipped yet? Rumors suggest that it’ll hit the market in Q3 and instead of an NVIDIA Tegra 2 powering the new superphone, it’ll feature a Texas Instruments OMAP 4. The delay is also…
Modestie Boutique, located in Sydney, Australia, recently had to pay a fine of $9,992 Australian dollars (roughly $10,700 American dollars) after they fired Sedina Sokolovic with a text message. That’s right, because Modestie Boutique opted to sack someone the humiliatingly informal way, they now have to pay up. Sedina had been working Modestie for about…
The bean counters at iSuppli just released a report that says revenues from devices that utilize wireless charging are set to hit $885.8 million this year, which is an increase of 616% compared to 2010 figures. If you’re having a hard time trying to think of any products on the market that actually even charge…
Michael Hurlston (pictured above), Senior Vice Oresident of Home and Wireless Networking at Broadcom, told journalists at a press briefing held last week in San Francisco that by this time next year 10% to 15% of all mobile phones on the market will feature support for near field communications, better known as NFC. His prediction,…
Back in February when Nokia announced that they were going to dump Symbian, kill off MeeGo, and switch to Windows Phone, their stock price dropped like a rock. Betting your future on an unproven platform, and worst of all telling customers, operators, and partners, that the ecosystem they’re currently invested in will cease to exist,…
When LightSquared was announced back in the summer of 2010, we were excited at their potential to disrupt the wireless landscape in America. Their business model was simple: build the best LTE network that money can buy and then sell access to it to companies who then resell it to consumers. It’s what Clearwire tried…
Nortel, once a leader in telecommunications, went bust in 2009 and since then they’ve been selling off pieces of their vast empire to the highest bidder. One of their key assets, some 6,000 patents in the areas of wireless video, WiFi, internet search, social networking, and WiFi, are currently up for grabs. Google has placed…
Moving content on and off mobile phones has become easier with time. Those of us old enough to remember the days when we had to transfer files using a serial cable know how nice it is having USB on modern handsets. WiFi and Bluetooth have also made file transfers easier, but not all platforms enable…