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Earlier this year the FCC, in a 3 to 2 vote, said that AT&T and Verizon have to offer smaller operators the ability to roam on their data networks on “commercially reasonable” terms and conditions. Verizon, last Friday, filed an appeal to that decision, saying that the FCC is over regulating the market and that…
When the first Amazon Kindle was released back in November 2007, no one thought that it would become the huge success that it is today. Amazon’s philosophy of letting you read a Kindle book on whatever device you own, whether it be one of their dedicated electronic ink readers or your smartphone, has helped propel…
Nokia has one more MeeGo, formerly known as Maemo, device in the pipeline before they thrown the operating system under the bus. Depending on who you ask, it’s either going to be called the N9 or N950, implying it’s a successor to either the N8, the best cameraphone on the market that sadly failed to…
At the Reuters Global Technology Summit today Jen-Hsun Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA, told reports that in roughly 2.5 years Google’s mobile operating system Android will overtake Apple’s iPad in terms of market share. You can spin that either way, as a good thing for Apple, who with the iPad will be so successful that…
The bean counters at iSuppli are talking screens today, more specifically the AMOLED (active matrix organic light-emitting diode) type that Samsung uses in both generations of their Galaxy S Android powered smartphone, along with Nokia in their high end multimedia and enterprise devices. According to iSuppli there were 49.4 million AMOLED displays shipped in 2010…
Earlier this week we wrote about Samsung’s new 10.1 inch 2560 x 1600 pixel resolution screen and while it got us pretty excited about how much sharper future tablets are going to be, what we were really waiting for was Toshiba’s announcement of a new 4 inch screen that does full 1280 x 720 pixels,…
AT&T is set to launch a 4G LTE network this summer, about half a year after Verizon launched their 4G LTE network. While we don’t know what sort of speeds AT&T plans to offer, we do know that they’re going to have to surpass the 15 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload speeds that most…
Eldar Murtazin, Editor of Mobile Review and a man who is widely regarded within tech circles as someone with an extraordinary amount of inside information, dropped a bomb on his personal blog today. He claims to have knowledge that Microsoft is in talks to purchase Nokia’s handset unit and that the deal may close by…
Ofcom, think of them as the British version of the FCC, recently commissioned a study to find out what advantages 4G LTE offered compared to earlier 3G networks. Higher speed and lower latencies are something TeliaSonera users in Scandinavia and Verizon customers in America already know a thing or two about, with many going so…
The idiot savants more commonly referred to as branding people that work at each of America’s major wireless operators like to invent seemingly cool and highly creative names for products that otherwise get called something boring like “Nokia 6210” in Europe and Asia. Samsung’s original Galaxy S fell victim to these overpaid derelicts when it…