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Many of Nokia’s latest devices include the ability to receive firmware updates over the air, but there are still a large number of handsets out there, both running Symbian and Series 40, that need to be connected to a computer in order to get the latest software. Until now you had to have a machine…
As successful a company as Intel is, they’re hungry for growth, and right now that means mobile. The chip firm may have made laptops mainstream a decade prior, but it’s Google and Apple who are creating the software and hardware that are ending up in millions of people’s pockets. Intel’s problem is that they’re tied…
Apple’s iPhone has been heralded by many as being the best smartphone to ever hit the market. It was also ridiculed by nearly everyone because it ran on AT&T, who has been having trouble keeping up with the traffic demands that millions of Americans are causing due to all the cute cat videos they’re watching…
The Nokia N8 achieved a lot of “firsts”. It was the first device on the market with support for all 5 3G bands, meaning you could use it anywhere in the world and still get high speed mobile broadband. It even does T-Mobile’s funky 1700 MHz band. It was also the first, and remains the…
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that the mobile space is blowing up, both in terms of smartphones and tablets, and that we’re just at the very beginning of an epic transition to pocket computing. That’s all fine and dandy if you’re Qualcomm and make chips that go into those devices, or…
Google’s released an update to their “Google Search” application for the iPhone, and while it’s prettier than the last version, it’s still a bit … how should I put this, rather useless for most people. Sure, all the cool features that Google has been cooking up in their labs are in there. For example you…
For all the love that Nokia gets in Europe and Asia, they’ve got almost no presence in one of the largest economies on Earth: the United States. It’s not that their devices are poor, they make some of the best smartphones out there … barring the complexity of the user interface. No, it’s their arrogance…
With all four of America’s largest operators cranking the 4G marketing machine to 11, you’ve got to wonder who can actually deliver the goods and who is just throwing money away on ads that could be better spent on actually, you know, delivering 4G? The folks at PC World, in conjunction with Novarum, have performed…
Late last year Nokia debut the “Touch and Type” moniker which they use to classify feature phones that run their proprietary Series 40 operating system and feature both a traditional keypad and a touch screen. We’ve already seen the X3 Touch and Type that’s a music centric device and the C3 Touch and Type for…
For as long as we can remember there’s always been a rumor floating around that the iPhone 5 would get near field communication (NFC) support. Just like Apple practically invented the tablet industry overnight, many were hoping that the iPhone 5 would make 2011 the year that NFC finally took off. News coming from The…