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Our Norwegian friends at Opera Software have released their latest State of the Mobile Web Report, an analysis of data gathered from everyone who uses the Opera Mini web browser. For those who have never heard of Opera Mini, it’s an ingenious little application that takes websites you want to view and renders them on…
Strategy Analytics has surveyed Indian people living in rural villages, places where people sustain themselves on roughly $130 per month, and have discovered that 63% of them are more likely to buy a mobile phone from one of the local manufacturers (i.e. Lava, Micromax, and Spice) than from established handset vendors such as Nokia and…
When Google first announced Android many questioned the business model. Whereas Nokia, Samsung, LG, and just about everyone else make money by shipping actual devices, and Microsoft makes money by selling licenses for Windows Phone, Google comes out and says that they’re not going to charge anything for their operating system and that they’re expecting…
Mention the BBC and images of Kings, Queens, Jeremy Clarkson, and Monty Python come to mind if you’re not lucky enough to live in the UK, but that simply isn’t the case these days for those of you fortunate enough to call the land of Fish and Chips your home. You English know there’s more…
Kids don’t really understand the value of money until they get their first job and more importantly have to move out and live on their own. This poses a problem if you’re a parent and give your kid an iPad or iPhone or iPod touch and they install something silly like a Smurfs game and…
Broadcom is a chip maker you don’t hear about all too often, which is a bit of shame since they make a sizable amount of WiFi and Bluetooth chips that you’ve probably used in various products without even knowing. Today they’re stepping up their game and have announced several new products, the most impressive of…
While Verizon has yet to launch their first LTE capable smartphone, MetroPCS has seemingly come out of nowhere and not only announced their first LTE packing handset, but say it’ll be on store shelves by the end of this week. It’s be called the “Samsung Galaxy Indulge” and it’s a side slider QWERTY device with…
Make no mistake about it, when Clearwire launched their WiMAX network in America they took a huge gamble at adopting a technology that many in the industry thought wasn’t going to go anywhere, all for the sake of wanting to label themselves as having a “4G” network. Sadly, more like inevitably really, WiMAX is beginning…
The smartphone platform wars wouldn’t really matter if you could run applications made for one operating system on a competitor’s handset. While we’re not yet at a point where Android applications can run on the iPhone, or vice-versa, the folks at Myriad Group have created a way to let users of Nokia’s Maemo running N900…
That screen you love to poke, prod, and swipe, is made up of several components that the average man on the street shouldn’t even care about, but we do for some strange and slightly odd reason. The first and most obvious is the screen itself, usually either LCD or OLED, the latter becoming more common…