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Chances are you own something that was made by Foxconn. The Chinese company is famous for making Apple products, but it should be noted that they also have many additional customers, including Nintendo. The way Foxconn operates is by building what’s effectively a small city around an incredibly large factory. This city has apartments, cafeterias,…
Rovio, the Finnish company that brought you Angry Birds, has just tweeted that their latest space themed title has been downloaded over 100 million times. According to The Next Web, that milestone was achieved in just 76 days. Our back of the envelope calculations say that’s an average of 1.32 million downloads per day, which…
HTC rebooted their image in February with the launch of the One series of devices, but apparently no one noticed. The Taiwanese company just slashed their Q2 2012 sales target by 13% to $3.05 billion. Chang Chialin, HTC’s Chief Financial Office, said weak sales in Europe were to blame for this revised figure, along with…
AT&T has just announced that they’ll be carrying a new smartphone called the Exhilarate. Made by Samsung, the Exhilarate is a Galaxy S II, but with a smaller 4.0 inch screen and a less capable 5 megapixel camera. That’s OK though since it supports 4G LTE, making it one of the cheapest devices in AT&T’s…
AT&T has a 700 MHz 4G LTE network, as does Verizon, but those networks aren’t interoperable because they use different blocks of spectrum. There’s a debate in the FCC right now as to whether operators should make their networks interoperable. It isn’t as easy as simply saying “make it so!”, there’s a lot of hardcore…
Phones are getting larger whether you like it or not. Samsung shocked the world when they announced the 5.3 inch Galaxy Note last autumn, but half a year later we hardly notice that the Galaxy S III has a 4.8 inch display. So why are phones getting bigger? We think there are three good reasons.…
Nokia has announced three new phones today, all of them running their proprietary Series 40 featurephone operating system. Starting with the Asha 305 and 306, they’re both the same device, except that the latter has only one SIM card slot while the former has two. And as for the Asha 311 (pictured above), it’s the…
Elisa, the largest operator in Finland, has had me as a customer since I first landed in this country nearly half a decade ago. Now this might shock some of you, but I’m actually a prepaid user. Back in 2007, Elisa’s prepaid brand was called “Columbus”, but a few years ago it was rebranded as…
When Motorola launched the Android powered RAZR last year it had an extremely impressive piece of software onboard called “Smart Actions”. It let you “program” your phone to do things at certain times or at certain locations. For example, say you’re about to go to bed. With Smart Actions you can tell your RAZR to…
The fastest processor Apple makes right now is called the A5X. It’s a dual core chip that has a ridiculously powerful graphics processor onboard because it needs to support the ultra high resolution display of the new iPad. Texas Instruments, being a chip designer themselves, has made a video that shows their upcoming OMAP 5…