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Every year, like clock work, Apple brings together a slew of technology journalists inside a small auditorium where the walls are coated with a special material made for maximum hyperbole reverberation to announce the next iPhone. We’ve heard so many rumors about the 2011 iPhone that we don’t even know where to begin. The latest…
Let the era of the sub 100 Euros handset begin! Today Vodafone has introduced the “Smart”, otherwise known as the Vodafone 858. For 90 Euros this summer, and that includes tax, you’ll be able to pick up this delightful little smartphone that packs Android 2.2, quadband 2G, 2100 MHz 3G capable of 3.6 Mbps download…
Back in the summer of 2007, when the first generation iPhone was barely two months old, Nokia gave birth to the Ovi brand. Finnish for “door”, Ovi was supposed to be the the umbrella brand that brought together N-Gage (discontinued), Nokia Music (discontinued), Nokia Maps, and the various other online services that would launch between…
ViewSonic is a brand most people attach to the clunky CRT monitors of yore that only high end graphic designers bought because of their fantastic color reproduction capabilities, but recently they’ve also trying to enter the mobile scene. The first tablet ViewSonic launched, the gTablet, came out last November and packed an NVIDIA Tegra 2…
Chinese infrastructure vendor Huawei has been trying to enter the US market for ages, but America’s fear of the People’s Republic of China has kept them out of the market and has driven business to their main competitors: Nokia Siemens Networks, Alcatel Lucent, and the biggest of them all, Ericsson. No one has any issues…
Before the iPad 2 was announced the rumor mongers among us were absolutely convinced that Apple’s second generation tablet would have twice the number of vertical and horizontal pixels, yet maintain the same screen size; effectively a resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels in a 9.7 inch screen. Many pople were expecting a “retina display”…
Near Field Communication technology, or NFC for short, is something we’ve been writing about for as long as we can remember. It’s been in Japan for several years now, albeit in the proprietary Sony FeliCa format, but what it enables is the purchase of goods and services using nothing but a tap of your mobile…
When Nokia’s new CEO Stephen Elop announced that the Finnish handset maker would dump Symbian and MeeGo and make Windows Phone their primary smartphone operating system he broke a lot of hearts. Symbian, as complicated as it may seem to new users, has many fans around the world. MeeGo on the other hand has a…
Matt Hershenson and Joe Britt are two names you’re going to be hearing a lot more often as Google’s Android operating system evolves. They were two of the three people who founded Danger, the company that built the Sidekick for T-Mobile and eventually got sold to Microsoft in 2008. The third cofounder of Danger is…
Japan is home to some of the wildest mobile phones we’ve ever had the pleasure to read about. Every year at Mobile World Congress we spend a few hours at the booths setup by Japanese operators and end up crying like little girls because we know we’ll never, ever, get similar hardware out in Europe…