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When you first startup a mobile phone running Google’s Android operating system it asks you for your Google account credentials. Several minutes later and all your email, calendar details, and contacts just magically appear on the device. It’s one of the coolest thing the internet has ever enabled. Equally awesome is that you could add…
The smartphone is perhaps man’s greatest invention, but the increasing amount of people glued to their screens is a bit disheartening. Weren’t we supposed to be freed from the shackles of fixed offices and schedules by our mobile devices? Why is it then that people poke and prod at their gadgets as if the digital…
When portable music players first hit the market, and I’m talking about the Sony Walkman here, it changed the way not only people consumed the songs they loved, but how they interacted with the world around them. Whether or not you think the army of zombies marching with headphones plugged so deep into their ear…
Of all the nerd fights that take place on the internet, Microsoft versus the open source community is the battle that has caused more trollish comments and lengthy prose to be posted than anything even remotely similar. Forget Android versus iOS, Microsoft versus Linux is where blood boils. Understandably so when you look at how…
T-Mobile, better known as Deutsche Telekom, has always been an innovative operator when it comes to adopting the latest technologies. They may spend less on advertising than the other guuys, but that’s money better spent on actual infrastructure gear. Recently T-Mobile discussed how they’re going to roll out near field communication (NFC) technology to several…
Clearwire, the WiMAX operator that was formed as a joint venture by several companies yet is 54% owned by Sprint, has yet to make any money. They’re in trouble, and it’s why they’re looking to offload some spectrum to T-Mobile or at least partner with them so that they can get some much needed funds…
Imagination Technologies is a little company that most people don’t know about, but they make some of the best graphics processors on the planet. We’re not talking about desktop gaming here either, we’re talking mobile. Their PowerVR SGX 535 is inside Apple’s iPhone and iPad and now Imagination is talking up the SGX543MP, SGX544MP, and…
When Google, technically HTC, shipped the Nexus One, many were blown away by the rich blacks and crisp text that the AMOLED screen it came with offered, but something just wasn’t right. A little investigation using a common everyday microscope revealed that the AMOLED display in question didn’t have equally sized of red, green and…
The race to build the slimmest mobile phone possible began with Motorola and their iconic RAZR. When that thing came out not only was the price tag absurd, $500 with a 2 year contract, but it also measured just a scant 13 mm thick. That was simply unheard of back in 2004. Since then devices…
Zoran and CSR, two companies that are not really household names, but nonetheless make important components that find themselves inside many of the consumer electronics devices you’ve either already purchased or are considering buying, have agreed to merge in a deal slated to be worth roughly $679 million. Zoran shareholders will receive 1.85 ordinary shares…