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HTC, looking to grab as much attention as they can before the Consumer Electronics Show taking place in Las Vegas next month and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona the month after, has started leaking images of their own devices to various media outlets. So far Gizmodo, CrunchGear, AndroidCentral, SlashGear, and Engadget have received images that…
Occipital, a company that has been getting lots of attention for their iPhone application “360 Panorama” that utilizes the built in gyroscope and camera inside Apple’s Jesus Phone to make taking panorama images easier, has discovered that the Safari browser, as of version 4.2 of iOS, supports reading information from the gyroscope. The headline used…
LG launched two handsets today according to Unwired View, the A155 and the A120. The first is a dual SIM capable device with a 2 inch screen, and while it doesn’t have 3G, it’ll cost you less than $100. The type of people who buy dual SIM handsets are typically those who are looking to…
Near Field Communication (NFC) technology is something we’ve been talking for years, jealously citing examples in Japan where they use their handset for everything from paying for drinks from a soda machine, to getting on the subway, and a whole lot more. According to research firm iSuppli, the number of NFC enabled handsets that shipped…
There’s a juicy rumor currently being floated by Bloomberg that says Microsoft will announce an ARM version of Windows at the Consumer Electronics show due to take place early next month. Before we even break down why that’s ridiculous, let’s actually define what’s being discussed. Windows 7, as it sells today in pretty plastic boxes…
Verizon Wireless recently turned on an LTE network that has been getting nothing but praise from people lucky enough to be able to pay the insane $60/month for 5 GB of data that they’re demanding. The combination of low latency and high throughput make LTE easily capable of replacing your home broadband connection, but not…
Call it nostalgia or a desire to return to simpler days, but one French design firm is taking handsets that many of us loved in the 90s and re-releasing them with a fresh coat of paint and a set new batteries. Lëkki, which we’re not even going to pretend we know how to pronounce, began…
These days your smartphone platform is judged not by the quality of the hardware it runs on, nor the fidelity of the user experience, but instead it’s all about the apps. How many do you have, how many are downloaded per day, and are they any good? While I don’t agree with that view, give…
Denver, Colorado and Bridgeport, Connecticut have just become cities number 69 and 70 to get hooked up to Sprint’s WiMAX network. We used to say Sprint was falsely adverting WiMAX as a 4G technology, but the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) recently backtracked on their definition of what should and should not be called 4G, so…
HTC has just issued an update concerning the Wildfire via their Facebook page that says European owners will get an upgrade to the Android 2.2 operating system this week, while the rest of the world has to wait until February 2011. The Wildfire, for those of you who may not be familiar with the low…