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Seton Hall University, which is about 15 miles away from New York City, it announcing that the entire class of 2016 will get a Nokia Lumia 900 for “free”. I say “free” because according to Seton’s website, they charge $16,350 per semester to educate full-time undergraduate students. That’s $32,700 per year. Considering AT&T will sell…
Sony Mobile Communications, which less than four months ago was known as Sony Ericsson, hasn’t exactly had an exciting 2012. Their new lineup consists of devices that were clearly designed before the merger was complete, and worst of all their portfolio utilizes chips that were meant to be put into 2011 smartphones, not 2012 flagships.…
When people talk about mobile phone vendors they typically cite three to five companies, but truth is there are many, many more. There’s a countless number of brands in China that most consumers will never hear about because those firms are ultra focused on feeding local demand. Xiaomi is one of those companies. This month…
In case you haven’t heard, Apple held an event yesterday where they announced new personal computers and showed off the next version of both their desktop operating system (OS X 10.8) and mobile operating system (iOS 6). Now new features are what make geeks foam at the mouth, but this writer cares more about optimizations…
What do Linus Torvalds and Nokia have in common? They’re both Finnish. And if you haven’t heard of Mr. Torvalds, that’s OK, but chances are you’re familiar with his work. He’s the guy who wrote Linux back in the early 1990s. Linus moved to America shortly after releasing the Linux kernel, and he’s been there…
In less than a month I’m going to celebrate my five year anniversary in Finland. When I landed here in the summer of 2007 I had no idea I’d stay for this long, but life has a way of throwing surprises at you. Now one of the key survival skills you absolutely must have to…
Dish Network owns 40 MHz worth of spectrum that they want to use to launch an LTE-Advanced network. Before they can do that though, they need to get permission from the government to use that spectrum for terrestrial use. That should happen by the end of this year. They also need to wait for the…
Remember Google Wallet? Announced in May 2011, the goal Google set out to achieve was to get you to pay for things using your mobile phone instead of the piece of plastic you’ve been carrying around for decades. The service launched on one phone, the Nexus S, on one operator, Sprint, and came with support…
There was once a time when mobile phones had just one port, the power port. Then someone figured out it would be easier to drive a car without holding a phone up to the side of your head, and thus the headset jack was added. Phones soon started getting smarter, so another daring individual said…
When it comes to Android versus iOS, most folks in America associate Google’s OS with Verizon, while Apple’s Jesus Phone is seen as something you get from AT&T. That hasn’t stopped AT&T from offering high end Android devices however. The first Motorola Atrix, and the subsequent Atrix 2 that launched just 10 months later, pushed…