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A recent survey of 269 students from Wilkes University in Pennsylvania has turned up some results that you and I might not find too surprising, but will probably send parents up the wall. Roughly nine in ten students admitted to sending text messages during class and half of those say it’s incredibly easy to do…
Nokia’s Beta Labs has released an intriguing new program called “Situations” that bills itself as a semi artificial intelligent way of managing your mobile phone based around multiple variables such as the time of day and your present location. Say for instance that you and your girlfriend always see a movie every Wednesday night at…
Sprint promised to launch WiMAX, in conjunction with Clearwire, in Los Angeles on the first of December. Instead of making people wait until Wednesday, they’ve decided to flip the switch today. In addition to LA, they’ve also activated Miami, Washington, D.C., Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio. Want even more good news? If you live in…
Earlier this month, after Nokia declared that they would swallow the Symbian Foundation back into their internal organization, we knew it would only be a matter of time until the Foundation’s official website would go down. Now we have a date we can count down to while we sit in our offices waiting to pop…
While Acer may not be a huge smartphone player just yet, they do like to tease us with high end specifications in devices like the Liquid Metal that sadly we never see in the wild. Here’s hoping that their newest creation, the beTouch E140, actually ends up on a store shelf somewhere. For just 200…
Nokia has been pumping out Symbian^3 devices at quite an impressive rate. First there was the N8, which was announced far too early before finally shipping, then there was the C7, and more recently the C6-01 and E7. All of these devices have one thing in common: they’re running the most up to date version…
Germany’s third largest operator with over 19 million subscribers, E-Plus, is now offering consumers a rebadged ZTE Android smartphone under the name “BASE Lutea“. It runs stock Android as far as we can tell, but we can’t say which version. If you look at the press shot above it has the old Android 2.1 application…
Unmarried women from the Lank village of North India are now not allowed to own a mobile phone. The village population measures a mere 50,000 people in size, but nearby regions have considering implementing the same rules. The reason? Arranged marriages are still the norm in that part of the world, and mobile phones enable…
We all love smartphones, especially the ones that cost over half a thousand Euros, but not everyone can afford those. Luckily the market for devices that cost under 200 Euros is huge, with Nokia taking a large share of that space, but don’t forget Samsung. They’re increasingly trying to compete with Nokia at every price…
Nokia’s age old and highly popular 5800 model was the first device to come out of the Finnish firm running a touch version of the Symbian operating system. While we didn’t care for it too much, a lot of people picked it up since they wanted to see what sort of “iPhone killer” the world’s…