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When Nokia’s flagship N95 began shipping in the spring of 2007 it was first flagship device to ship from a major phone manufacturer with GPS built in. Since then the race to bundle GPS inside mid to high end mobile phones has come to an end, and it’s damn near impossible to buy a smartphone…
The dream of turning your mobile phone into your wallet is soon going to become a reality, and according to The Wall Street Journal Google is working with MasterCard and Citigroup on a near field communication (NFC) based mobile payments system in an effort to be the first to make that fantasy come true. Here’s…
Verizon’s 4G LTE network is fast, faster than some people’s home internet connections, so we can imagine that there are more than a few people out there who want to tap into that fat pipe to deliver internet access to their laptop, iPad, and other WiFi enabled devices. One could buy an HTC Thunderbolt and…
Nothing takes the wind out of your sails than your smartphone kicking the bucket and then having to sit and wait a countless number of hours for the damn thing to get fully charged up again. The reason it takes so long is because nearly every smartphone on the market can only pump 1.5 amperes…
T-Mobile was the last of the major North American operators to launch a 3G network and because of that they were mocked as being out of touch and branded as a firm that will always remain small. When the company decided to slap the “4G” label on their new 21 Mbps HSPA+ network they were…
LG has just announced the T315i and the highlight feature of this dumb phone is WiFi connectivity. Starting this month you can pick up this thing up in Russia for ~ 4,400 rubles which is equivalent to $155. It measures 103 mm x 57 mm x 11.9 mm, has a 3.5 mm headphone jack, 2…
In a move that is sure to rile up open source enthusiasts, Google has told Business Week that they’re not going to release the source code to Android 3.0 Honeycomb anytime soon. Andy Rubin, head of the Android project, says: “To make our schedule to ship the tablet, we made some design tradeoffs. We didn’t…
When Apple announced the iPad 2 many were disappointed that the screen’s resolution stayed the same. The rumor mill was hoping that Apple would double the vertical and horizontal resolution, effectively quadrupling the number of pixels, in much the same way that they did when they went from the iPhone 3GS to the iPhone 4.…
Sports Tracker is an application who has a history that’s almost as interesting as the app itself. It started out as a hobby project made a few Nokia engineers. They polished it up in their free time, released it as an application for Symbian devices, and it’s maintained a cult following; with good reason too.…
Intel’s known for making the processors that made laptops a mainstream item. Several years ago they tried to make the cost of laptops even more affordable by introducing Atom. While it’s debatable how successful the netbook category is, you can’t argue with the fact that one can now buy a portable personal computer for less…