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Back in May of 2010 Nokia announced that it would team up with Yahoo! to provide email and chat services to current Ovi subscribers. It’s taken nearly a year for anything to come of that announcement, but it’s now official. Nokia has declared, via their official Ovi Blog, that the transition to Yahoo!’s platform for…
It’s happened to all of us. You’ll be reading an interesting article on your laptop or looking at an image that you want to send to your device, but instead of hooking up your smartphone to your computer or setting up a Bluetooth connection you either send yourself an email or in most cases just…
Take your mobile phone out of your pocket and put it on the desk you’re sitting at right now. Kind of useless, isn’t it? It’s an all black screen with no useful information such as time, date, message notifications, you get the idea. Nokia is looking to change that with what they’re dubbing “Nokia Sleeping…
Nokia’s flagship enterprise focused device, the E7, has finally come to the United States after an excruciatingly long wait time. This thing was announced back in September 2010, so that’s what … over half a year for the boat to go from Finland to America? You can pickup the E7 from Nokia’s very own online…
Last year Sony Ericsson released a rather interesting device called the X10 Mini. It came in two variants, the plain jane X10 which was a typical all screen smartphone, and the X10 Mini Pro, which featured a slide out QWERTY keyboard. What made these devices unique was their screen size, both measuring just 2.55 inches…
Last week Samsung and Visa announced that they’re going to bring NFC enabled mobile payments to London in time for the the 2012 Olympics. You’ll have to buy a new mobile phone and it’s going to require a “Visa enabled SIM card” in order to work, which doesn’t exactly scream ease of use and mass…
New research from analysts over BTIG confirms what many in the industry already know: Verizon’s 4G LTE network is crazy fast and Sprint’s WiMAX network is slow and lacks coverage. The testing methodology involved over 1,000 speed tests done in New York City using an HTC Thunderbolt (pictured above) and HTC EVO 4G. Both devices…
Let’s get one thing straight about Apple’s iOS. For all the wonderful applications that you can get, and for the awesome browser it has built in, the multitasking and notification system is ancient and frankly lacking in elegance. According to a new Apple patent however, things are going to change. In Mac…
We’re barely one week into the second quarter of 2011 and the race is on to declare what new device or technology will be what defines this year. Apple likes to think it’s going to be the iPad 2, we think it’s going to be the flood of dual core smartphones hitting the market starting…
An unnamed Nokia Executive, in an interview with the Hindustan Times, has said: “We will be launching 40 models in 2011 of which at least 30% would be smartphones.” This news isn’t exactly making us bust out the champagne because that’s right around how many models Nokia has been releasing every year for the past…