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Grab a device like Nokia’s N8 and try to count the number of antennas there are inside. You’ve got 4 just for GSM/EDGE, 5 for 3G, 1 for Bluetooth, 1 for WiFi, and 1 for the FM radio. That’s a total of 12, and that number is only going to go up as innovations such…
This may sound a bit cliché, but music really is the one thing that brings us all together. Some of us still remember the days of dubbing our favorite tracks to a blank cassette tape and then later lugging around binders full of burned CDs. The invention of the MP3 file changed everything and today…
The engineers at Nokia Siemens Networks have done something quite amazing. They squeezed 200 megabits per second (Mbps) out of an HSPA+ connection, something that was previously thought impossible. The HSPA+ standard, as it stands today, can only go up to 84 Mbps, and anything that goes faster has strictly been done in a laboratory…
Nokia’s C7, which launched in Europe last fall and became the second smartphone to ship with Symbian^3, was recently announced for the American markets under the name “Astound“. It’s going to be sold by T-Mobile for $80 with a 2 year contract, which is cheap, but not cheap enough if you ask us, and one…
Nokia has a lot of key strengths that many technology publications glance over. They make devices that are available at price points that many of us have a hard time believing are real. Several rounds of beers at a bar in your typical rich Western country can buy one ultra low end handset such as…
We’re spoiled when it comes to choice for which browser to use on our desktop computers, there are more out there than you can count with one hand, but on mobile it’s a little bit different. Most people stick to what’s bundled on their device and thanks to operators taking too much time to validate…
After promising to launch new versions of both Opera Mini and Opera Mobile at CTIA last week, we’re happy to say that the Norwegians have kept their word. While the user interface hasn’t changed with Opera Mini, performance has gone up. Scrolling and panning speeds have improved considerably since version 5, and there’s also now…
Texting while driving is dumb. Everyone knows that, yet people still do it anyway. What’s more scary than a soccer mom behind the wheel of an oversized sports utility vehicle telling her friends about a sale at Macy’s as she’s driving on a road filled with pedestrians? How about a bus driver taking your child…
Chinese handset maker ZTE has publicly stated that while they do have prototypes in their labs running Windows Phone 7, they don’t have any plans on launching devices running Microsoft’s new mobile operating system because there’s currently no demand for them, and Microsoft’s efforts to get the word out about the platform haven’t been enough.…
Those tiny little chips that power our increasingly impressive smartphones are making several folks quite a bit of money. Analysts at Strategy Analytics say that in 2010 alone, revenue from smartphone processors hit $4.52 billion, an increase of 77% compared to last year. Who took the largest share of that pie? Qualcomm with 41%, followed…