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Apple is going to ship a new iPhone this year and it’s going to run iOS 6. That’s pretty much all we know with 100% certainty. How large will the screen be? What chip will it have inside? Will it support NFC? Will it support 4G LTE? Will the back of the device still be…
Qualcomm, like every other technology company on the face of the planet, hosts an annual event for press and partners. They call theirs “Uplinq”. This year the company is showing off the APQ8064, which is a quad core processor that’s basically a Snapdragon, minus the built-in cellular connectivity. Why is the APQ8064 important? Chances are…
When Apple launched the iPhone 4 back in 2010 it was the first smartphone to require a new smaller SIM card called the “microSIM”. Lots of people complained about the change and thousands of YouTube videos demonstrating how to cut your SIM card down to size with a pair scissors suddenly appeared. Earlier this year…
Phones running Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 operating system are due to hit the market later this year. The world will be paying attention to what Nokia is going to be announcing, but let’s not forget that there are other companies who are also making Windows Phones. According to data from Nielsen, Windows Phone penetration hit…
Nokia has just announced that Nokia Transport, think turn by turn navigation for those who rely on public transportation, is now out of beta. The video below demos how the app works, and it looks amazing, but, and this is a big but, it only works on Nokia’s Windows Phones. According to data from Nielsen,…
Most people put their money into savings accounts that have terrible interest rates because that’s the safe and boring thing to do. Others are a little bit more adventurous and play the stock market. There’s a third category that exists, people who invest in funds. Funds are basically a fancy way of saying a portfolio…
Nokia’s 4.3 inch 4G LTE enabled Windows Phone for the American market, dubbed the Lumia 900, launched on AT&T on April 8th for $99 with a two year contract. Here we are, two months and one week later, and the price has now been halved to just $49. This isn’t a sale price, this is…
What do Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times have in common? They’re all highly regarded news organizations that have each independently confirmed what the internet already knows: Apple is going to launch a smaller iPad this year in order to compete with the Amazon Kindle Fire and the Google Nexus 7.…
Jolla, the small startup company composed of former Nokia engineers who worked on Maemo/MeeGo and who want to bring their own device to market, has just announced via Twitter that they’ve signed their first sales deal. Since Jolla doesn’t have an official website yet there’s sadly no press release we can link to, but somehow…
Anssi Vanjoki, or Dr. Evil as I like to call him because his square jaw and crisp suits make him look like a James Bond villan, was supposed to be the next CEO of Nokia. After he found out that Stephen Elop was going to replace Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Vanjoki immediately resigned. For those who don’t…