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Opera Mini is a highly popular web browser. Many of you don’t use it because you have a top of the line smartphone and live in a country that has a relatively inexpensive to use high speed wireless network, but you don’t represent the true reality of mobile phone use. In many parts of the…
Microsoft’s mobile strategy is a bit odd. First they sold licenses of Windows Mobile to handset makers. That business model was badly damaged when Google announced Android and said they’d be giving it away for free. What separated Windows Mobile from Android however was the fact that Microsoft also provided drivers so getting a smartphone…
Analyst predictions come and go. We report them, but rarely do a follow up, mostly due to the fact that there are more analyst firms out there than there are gadget sites. The few that matter (Gartner, Strategy Analytics, Canalys, Juniper Research, IDC, we’re sure we’ve left out a few) make predictions so often that…
Nokia’s newest version of Symbian, dubbed Anna, has been many months in the making. At the 2010 Symbian Exchange & Exposition held in November 2010, Jo Harlow, Executive Vice President of Smart Devices at Nokia, said: “In early 2011, there will be things like split-screen text entry, portrait Qwerty and Swype integrated into the UI,…
As operators all around the light up their LTE networks we like to take note of just how fast they are and how much you have to pay to ride the high speed pony express. In Finland TeliaSonera launched an LTE network in November 2010. They price it at 46 Euros per month, no data…
According to Taiwaenese rumor site Digitimes, who has a track record that’s surprisingly accurate, but at times has got things so laughably wrong that our entire office facepalm’d themselves, Intel is on track to make an announcement during the third quarter of this year that they’re going to support Android 3.0 Honeycomb and that the…
Leap Wireless is one of America’s smaller operators. Most people recognize them as “Criket Communications“. They don’t lock customers into 2 year contracts, nor do they insist on credit checks, so they’re prefect for those who want service on a month by month basis. Right now they have a 3G network that uses CDMA technology…
Apple’s lack of credibility in the web services arena is at some point in the future going to bite them in the ass. While the Cupertino company enjoys ridiculously high margins thanks to their hardware sells for a premium, and the nice bit of pocket change they score by getting 30% from each sale of…
Motorola and Huawei have been embroiled in a dispute over trade secrets and intellectual property that was spurred by Nokia Siemens Networks agreeing to buy out Motorola’s networking division. Huawei didn’t want NSN to gain access to all the work that they’ve done in collaboration with Motorola over the past 10+ years, which is understandable.…
Sony Ericsson’s successor to the X10 Mini Pro is quickly earning itself the title of one of the worst kept secrets in the Android world. We’ve seen this handset leaked numerous times, and today we get a set of photos that give us the clearest look at what we can come to expect from this…