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When Google launched the Nexus S late last year, many of us were a bit underwhelmed. Sure, it ran the latest version of Android, and yes, it came with support for NFC, but hardware wise it wasn’t all that different than the Nexus One that came out at the beginning of 2010. Several people have…
T-Mobile UK is ruffling a few feathers after telling customers that they’re going to be limited to downloading just 500 MB of data per month starting on February 1st and that if they want to stream video they should wait until they’re at home so they can use their WiFi connection. It’s odd since when…
Search engine giant Google has been trying to diversify their sources of revenue for years. They hardly make any money off the services they offer and if it wasn’t for advertising they wouldn’t even exist. With the latest version of Android, Google’s mobile operating system, basic support for near field communication (NFC) technology was added.…
When it comes to electronics books Amazon is arguably the leader of the market today thanks to their single purpose Kindle reader which now retails for less than half of what their first generation Kindle did. They’ve also seen success because they’ve been working tirelessly to make Kindle books available on nearly every internet connected…
Penguin Digital has launched the “Baby Touch Peekaboo App” in the UK [iTunes link] for Apple’s iPad and they say that it’s targeted at children as young as 3 months old and as old as 12 months. It’s going to cost parents £1.79, but I’ve got to ask: isn’t this all a bit too much?…
Engineering researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created something they’re calling “liquid pistons” that pave the way for lenses that can focus with no moving parts. The technology works like this: oscillating droplets of ferrofluid precisely displace a surrounding liquid on a substrate that’s currently the size of a piece of chewing gum; the pulsating…
People love to quote numbers that make them feel better about themselves and the $600 smartphone they picked after doing exhaustive amounts of research. If you platform isn’t the most pretty, think Symbian, then quote overall market share when dismissing the competition. If your platform is exclusive, think iOS, then quote how many applications are…
Regional operator MetroPCS was the first wireless firm to launch an LTE network in North America, but they didn’t exactly have the right gear to show off what it was capable of providing users, save for some streaming video services that no one actually used. That’s soon to change with the Samsung SCH-R910, a device…
LG isn’t a small company; they rank third among all the handset makers in terms of shipping mobile devices and fifth in terms of actually making revenue. That being said, have you ever seen an LG device in the wild? More importantly, have you seen one you actually considered buying? The South Korean firm is…
OmniVision may be a company you’ve never heard of, but chances are that at least one of the mobile phones you’ve previously owned has had their CMOS image sensors inside. At CES they announced something new and actually quite unique. It’s the OV10810, product names can’t get any sexier than that, and it has the…