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Ever since Stephen Elop became the CEO of Nokia earlier this year, many in the industry have suspected that he’ll use his former ties with Microsoft to get the Finnish handset firm to start making Windows Phone 7 powered smartphones. It’s a rumors that has popped up week after week, month after month, and now…
European operator Orange, who operates in numerous countries and serves 144.5 million customers as of September 2010, has announced that they’re going to commit to making near field communication a reality in 2011 and that by the end of next year they hope to have half a million NFC devices in the hands of French…
Connected watches are a consumer category that has been trying, year after year, to take off. We’ve seen Microsoft try with their SPOT watch initiative, we’ve seen Sony Ericsson release a few Bluetooth enabled watches, and we’ve even seen LG try and shove a mobile phone inside a watch. The benefits are numerous. Information is…
There are a plethora of gimmicky augmented reality applications and services all trying to get the attention of the public, all trying to secure some venture capital, but it’s rare that any of those solutions to problems that don’t exist actually impress. Enter World Lens by QuestVisual. This application lets users point their camera enabled…
Companies trademark names and purchase domains all the time. Whether or not they use them for a final consumer product is another question all together, but let’s assume for a minute that the 3 products HP trademarked last week, the Gyst, Myte, and Veer, are actual devices. Can you say Palm webOS product family? It’s…
Benchmarking is an interesting sport, and yes I use the term sport, because people spend far too much time crunching numbers that absolutely don’t matter in order to prove something that’s relevant to less than 1% of the population. Take this from a guy who used to scour junk yards for radiators to optimize a…
One of the reasons we prefer the Symbian and Android smartphone operating systems to something like Apple’s iOS is that it’s totally possible to replace the homescreen, otherwise known as the first thing you see when you unlock your device. Hiplogic recently went public with a Symbian homescreen alternative called *Spark, and if you’re one…
Mobile geeks adore the Japanese mobile phone industry because their devices, although nothing more than glorified dumb phones, come packed with features including ultra high resolution cameras, the ability to capture 1080p video, NFC to pay for items at a grocery store, hop on public transportation, or even open your front door, and they also…
With less than 10 days to go until Christmas, is there someone out there you forgot to buy a present for? Fear not, because Nokia USA is offering the Nokia N8 for only $399. All you have to do is go to nokiausa.com, find the N8, add it to your shopping cart, then use promotion…
The never ending battle over patents continues in the mobile industry, more specifically the case between Apple and Nokia. Both are suing each other for infringing patents, and Nokia just announced that they’ve found even more patents that Apple has violated, bringing the total to 37. “These actions add 13 further Nokia patents to the…