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When Lenovo purchased IBM’s PC division back in 2005, many diehard ThinkPad enthusiasts wondered what the then unknown Chinese company would do to the ThinkPad brand. The name itself, ThinkPad, has always stood for highly engineered notebook computers that only come in one color, black, and are also more durable than your average notebook computer.…
Say you’re one of the millions of people who purchased Apple’s latest tablet device, the iPad 2. Chances are you want to protect your investment, especially since your little toy set you back a pretty penny. There’s always the official “Smart Cover” that uses magnets to stick itself to the side of your iPad, but…
Amazon has just announced that they’ve launched a version of their Kindle application that’s optimized for devices running Google’s Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system. For the 17 of you who own such devices, we’re pretty sure you’re jumping up and down right now. In all seriousness, Amazon is hitting it out of the park with…
Roughly 4 weeks ago we reported on a rumor that said LG was going to launch a device called the “Optimus Big” that would take the same NOVA LCD technology found in the anorexic 4 inch Optimus Black and bump it up to 4.3 inches for those of you who absolutely need to carry as…
There’s a new iPhone coming out this year, that much is certain. We also know that it’s going to pack the A5 chip that’s inside the iPad 2, meaning the next iPhone is going to have a dual core ARM Cortex A9 processor along with some serious graphics horsepower. What we don’t know, which is…
Nokia has just posted their Q1 2011 financial results [PDF document] and there’s a lot of numbers to go through, so let’s just dive right in. The Finnish handset maker has reported net sales totaling 10.4 billion Euros, which is up 9% year on year, but down 18% compared to Q4 2010. Profits came in…
One of the best features of many of the Android running smartphones on the market is the ability to populate your address book based on the social data in your Facebook account. It’s been speculated that Apple always wanted to do the same thing, but instead opted not to; we now have proof that Facebook…
Selling infrastructure gear is no easy task. Operators get to pick and choose who they want to build out their networks, and often go with different vendors for different parts of the network just so they can save some money. Fierce competition from the Far East players, we’re looking at you Huawei and ZTE, has…
The high end flagship smartphones that have been coming out over the past few months come with enough processing power inside that many folks who just do basic web surfing and shooting out emails can get by on them as their primary computing device. The problem however when trying to do that is the small…
Sprint is America’s third largest operator and the proposed merger of AT&T and T-Mobile has them running scared. Dan Hesse (pictured above), Sprint’s current CEO, doesn’t want to see the deal go through, and he’s doing everything in his power to make sure that the U.S. government doesn’t put his company in a position of…