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Local Indian handset vendor Intex has announced plans to launch an Android 2.2 powered handset during the first week of February that will retail for 5,500 Indian rupees or roughly $120 US dollars. It’s going to pack a 3.2 megapixel camera, 2.8 inch resistive touch screen, and not much else is known in terms of…
Emerging markets are where the battle for the next generation of mobile consumers is currently taking place, and India, with their population of over 1.1 billion, is ripe for the taking for those who can fight on factors such as price, distribution, and better understanding of customer needs. Nokia used to dominate India, and at…
That cup of coffee you pick up on your way to work everyday, have you noticed the price has gone up during the past few years? That’s because there’s a global shortage of the miracle drug, and basic supply and demand has caused prices to soar. The guys who actually make the coffee have been…
At the 2010 Mobile World Congress which took place all the way back in February, Chinese infrastructure vendor and handset maker Huawei announced the E398. It was dubbed the world’s first triple mode USB LTE modem. Many, scratch that, all the first generation LTE modems that came out only supported LTE, so if you found…
Patents are a funny thing. Depending on how you view economic progress, they’re either essential for companies to even dare try to innovate, or lethal because they hold back any and all experimentation. I fall into the latter camp, and one of the latest patents out of Apple really take the cake. The California company…
Will someone please sit down with me over a cup of coffee and explain the latest craze that’s sweeping smartphone photography addicts? It seems that applications like Instagram and Camera+ are taking off because people like to intentionally make their photos look old and tarnished. Years of advances in CMOS technology, image processing, and component…
One of the things many keen eyes noticed at the recent All Things D Mobile conference, where Andy Rubin, the father of Android, showed off a Motorola tablet prototype, was the lack of any hardware buttons on said tablet. Andy said that in the future he expects all smartphones and tablet like devices to be…
File systems are a topic no one really likes to talk about since they’re technically complicated and not really worth knowing about; as long as you can find your files and folders why should you care if the partition on your hard drive is using NTFS or FAT? With that out of the way, let’s…
Earlier this year we brought you news of the LG C300 and C320, both QWERTY feature phones, with the latter coming in a unique slide up QWERTY form factor that few device manufacturers have dabbled with; check out Simon’s review of the Android powered Motorola Spice if you digg the style. Anyway, back to LG,…
If there is one social network that came out of nowhere during the past few years to become one of the most talked about services this side of the moon it’s most definitely Twitter. Thanks to the way the service was built anyone could build a client to interact with their backend, freeing you from…