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We’ve lost track of how many Samsung Galaxy phones are out on the market, but that’s OK since there are only a handful that actually matter. Is the new Galaxy Appeal one of them? Let’s find out. First, we have no idea how much this thing will actually cost. AT&T didn’t include that piece of…
Nokia World, an annual event that the Finnish handset maker holds to promote their latest and greatest devices, was supposed to take place between September 25th and September 26th this year. That’s now been changed according to the company’s official corporate blog. The new dates are September 5th and September 6th, and thankfully the venue…
HTC’s One X comes in two flavors. One of them, the international version, has a quad core NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor inside. Another, the AT&T One X, swaps that Tegra 3 for a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4. Why? So it can also come with 4G LTE connectivity. Which One X is better? That depends on what…
The bean counters at ABI Research have made a bold prediction. They say that more than 208 million “phablets” will be sold in 2015. What’s a phablet? According to them it’s a smarpthone with a screen that measures between 4.6 inches and 5.5 inches diagonal. Now just to be clear, that’s not the definition we…
Nokia’s 41 megapixel monster, the PureView 808, is going to hit the market at the end of this month. How do you launch a product and get the attention of the press? By holding a party with an open bar! The guys at Nokialino, an Italian Nokia fan site, were at such a party, and…
Samsung’s 2012 flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S III, was announced three weeks ago in London. It’s going to go on sale next week, on the 29th to be precise, but someone in Dubai apparently didn’t get the memo. Yousuf Lootah reached out to The Verge to tell them that he’s successfully purchased a Galaxy S…
People give me a lot of shit for saying that Windows Phone, in its current incarnation, is not a smartphone platform I’d recommend to others. In fact, every time I write about a Nokia Lumia device I get pelted with comments from mentally ill fanbois who say things like “you should never write about phones…
OmniVision, one of the leading suppliers of image sensors for mobile phones, has announced two new products today: the OV16820 and the OV16825. They have the same specifications, except that the former uses a “ceramic land grid array (CLGA) package” while the latter is available in “die form”. We wish we knew what that meant,…
Remember when Skype for Windows Phone launched and we told you that the Lumia 610 wouldn’t be able to run it properly because it has just 256 MB of RAM? Hours after we said that, Nokia issued a statement that said we were wrong and that Skype has no problems running on “low-end” Windows Phones.…
Books are awesome. They don’t need batteries, they have indexes that make things easy to find, and they’re ridiculously easy to use. HTC shares our enthusiasm for the printed word according to a patent that was unearthed by Unwired View. Said patent, which was filed back in April 2008, though it only got approved yesterday,…