With less than 12 hours to go until Apple gets on stage and shows off the next version of iOS, Google’s Andy Rubin (pictured above, left), the father of Android, used Twitter to announce to the world that over 900,000 devices running his mobile OS are being activated on a daily basis. That’s 81 million…
Nokia shares skyrocket in Finland on rumors of a Samsung takeover
Are you sitting down? Because what we’re about to tell you something doesn’t make any sense to us whatsoever. Nokia’s stock price is up over 7.5% 11% on the Helsinki Stock Exchange because there’s a rumor going around that Samsung is interested in buying the company. Think about that second. If you were to combine…
Samsung ChatON now on Windows Phone, but will it topple WhatsApp? Probably not.
Text messages cost operators little to nothing to send through their networks, yet they charge some pretty hefty fees for customers to use them. Looking to get around that problem, WhatsApp was born. It’s an application that uses your data connection to send messages and it works extremely well because it runs on nearly every…
Apple fined $2.5 million for saying the new iPad is a 4G enabled device
Apple has agreed to pay $2.5 million worth of fines in Australia because they called their new iPad “4G” capable. While the third generation iPad does indeed come with a 4G LTE cellular radio, said radio can’t connect to Australia’s 4G LTE networks because it doesn’t have the right bands. And in Australia you can’t…
Bloomberg: Microsoft not letting HTC build Windows RT tablets
Microsoft’s next version of Windows, dubbed Windows 8, is going to ship later this year; probably in October. There are going to be two versions of the OS, one called Windows 8 that runs on traditional x86 machines, and another called Windows RT that runs on the ARM architecture. Whereas anyone can go out and…
HTC Desire V: Dual SIM Android 4.0 now a reality, shipping next month
Earlier this year HTC rebooted their brand image with the launch of the One series of devices. The One X being the high end, the One S representing the mid range, and the One V positioned the affordable model. Last month the Taiwanese company announced the Desire C, which looks exactly like the One X,…
Video: So how much slower is Windows Phone Tango compared to Mango?
Anton Nagy from Pocketnow has produced an incredibly informative 18 minute video where he pits Nokia’s new Lumia 610 against the year and a half old LG Optimus 7. The Lumia 610 is the first device on the market to run Windows Phone Tango, which is a version of Windows Phone that supports devices with…
Rumor: HTC One V to land on Virgin Mobile later this month for $200
Announced back in February at Mobile World Congress, HTC’s One V is a “low end” Android 4.0 smartphone with a single core processor that’s targeted at people who want something that’s affordable, yet not a piece of junk. It’s already out in the UK and if you want it it’ll run you roughly $385. That’s…
Sprint finally stops selling iDEN devices
Sprint, like every other operator around the world, owns a finite amount of spectrum. Some of that spectrum is currently being used for iDEN, which was briefly popular several years ago because it came with a “walkie-talkie” feature that annoying assholes loved to use so everyone could hear their conversations. Now that practically no one…
Video: Intel demos a laptop charging a smartphone wirelessly
Computex is taking place in Taiwan right now and it’s the mother of all trade shows when it comes to the PC industry. Intel, whose chips power four out of five personal computers, was at the event demoing several of their latest technologies, but one thing that caught our eye was their wireless charging enabled…