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Feature phones used to be exciting, and for many people looking for a no frills device that excels in handling phone calls and text messages feature phones may still be as interesting today as they once were in the 90s. The reality of the current market however, with the price of smartphones dropping at such…
Micromax, one of the many local mobile phones manufacturers in India , has recently launched the Andro A60. It’s nothing more than a rebadged ZTE Penguin, but it doesn’t matter because it’s giving countless numbers of people access to Google’s Android operating system for just a hair over $150. The Andro A60 will retail for…
Near Field Communication (NFC) technology will be one of the key hardware innovations to watch out for during 2011 and for many more years to come. Samsung, looking to get into the market, has announced that they’ve created an NFC chip that they’ll start mass producing during the first quarter of 2011. Could this possibly…
Multitasking, AirPlay and better handling of HTML5 weren’t the only things included in Apple’s recent update of iOS to version 4.2.1, there’s also support for Network Controlled Fast Dormancy (NCFD). What exactly is that? The folks over at Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) break it down on their official corporate blog and to make things short:…
Both France and Switzerland are set to auction off their 800 MHz band, otherwise known as the digital dividend spectrum which was once used for analog television broadcasts, at some point in 2011. Their decisions are part of a broader effort by the European Union to ensure that the entire continent is blanketed with high…
India, one of the largest markets in the world for consumer goods thanks to an exploding middle class, loves mobile phones that can house two SIM cards. IDC says that 39% of all the mobile phones sold in India during Q2 2010 were dual SIM capable, up from 1% just one year ago. That leaves…
Japanese operator Softbank, who has exclusive rights to the iPhone for the small island nation in much the same way that AT&T has a death grip on the iPhone in America, will soon begin offering Apple’s iPad for free with a 24 month contract according to mocoNews. This isn’t the WiFi iPad either, this is…
Read any publication covering the technology industry and the you’ll start thinking that the virtues of living an always on, always connected lifestyle, with the latest 600 Euro smartphone in your pocket are mandatory in order to function as a member of society in the 21st century. For many however, that simply isn’t the case.…
The battle for consumers looking to spend less than 200 Euros on a phone is hot and heavy since the addressable market is much larger than that of the super smartphones running iOS and Android, otherwise known as the devices that get all the attention from the technology press. Samsung is introducing a new feature…
Samsung’s upcoming Nexus S is one of the worst kept secrets in Android device history. With the CEO of Google Eric Schmidt showing it off at the Web 2.0 Summit earlier this month, plus the barrage of images that have leaked not only showing off every angle of the device, but the upcoming Android 2.3…