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Verizon recently suffered an outage of their 4G LTE network that lasted a little over 24 hours. Not many people complained about it because there are still a limited number of users even utilizing 4G LTE and frankly Verizon’s 3G is fast enough for most basic web surfing tasks. That didn’t stop T-Mobile from taking…
The Samsung Galaxy S II is going to be a hugely popular device because it’s one of the first Android smartphones to pack a dual core processor and because the previous Galaxy S sold over 10 million units in nearly every market in the world. Being that Samsung is a South Korean firm, their home…
Rumors fresh out of Taiwan from Digitimes say that Quanta, who builds nearly all the laptops that are sold on the market, will be manufacturing the next generation Amazon Kindle as early as the second half of this year. Unit shipments are expected to hit roughly 700,000 to 800,000 units per month, meaning Amazon really…
Samsung and AT&T are getting together on Thursday the 5th of May for a “special announcement” that will feature “product demos and executive remarks”. In other words, something is going to come out. We’re hoping that AT&T is going to bring the recently launched Galaxy S II to American shores. That 1.2 GHz dual core…
Nokia has just announced via their official Nokia Conversations blog that they’re going to release a pink variant of the N8. When exactly it’ll hit the market, and more importantly which version of Symbian will be onboard, was not mentioned, which is about as big of a PR blunder as you can make. The images…
Apple’s policy towards iPad App pricing, in particular the bit that mentions you need to purchase your subscription through Apple instead of a publisher, has shaken up a lot of newspaper and magazine organizations. Up until now if you owned a periodical you sold subscriptions to your customers and then delivered a physical object to…
Want proof that the popularity mobile gaming isn’t going away anytime soon? Capcom, makers of iOS hits such as Street Fighter IV, Resident Evil 4, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, and Smurfs’ Village, is going to create a sub-brand called “Beeline” that will be “expanding the company’s presence in the burgeoning ‘freemium’ smartphone space.” This is…
The bean counting analysts at IDC have just released their tally up of first quarter mobile phone sales, and they’re impressive, but not if you’re in the list of top 5 handset makers. Just how many phones were sold during the first 3 months of this year? About 371.8 million or roughly 2,870 phones per…
Qualcomm has just announced that Peter Chou, CEO of HTC , Jon Rubinstein, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Palm at HP, and Stephen Elop, CEO of Nokia, will be giving keynotes during the two day Uplinq event scheduled to take place next month in California. What’s going to be talked…
Samsung Russia has just announced 3 new dual SIM feature phones that will be hitting the market later this month. First up is the E1182 which has a 1000 mAh battery that promises to deliver 11 hours of talk time and 620 hours (~ 25.8 days) of standby time, and it also packs an FM…