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When Skyfire first hit the scene a couple of years ago, we welcomed the competition that it would bring Opera who until that point in time was the only company making a mobile web browser that utilized server farms in distant lands to compress web pages before delivering them to our devices. Things have changed…
Panasonic is a brand most people associate with high end audio and video equipment, but the company is looking to change that by entering the smartphone space early next year according to Reuters. Their first Android powered devices are going to come out in Japan, and then hit overseas markets, hopefully Europe and America, in…
Last week we brought you news of an upcoming unannounced Sony Ericsson Android device that looked to be the flagship smartphone of the first half of 2011. Today we find out that may not exactly be the case. The handset, codename “Anzu”, runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread, features a Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM7230 processor, the same one…
The video below, as corny as the dialogue may be, seemingly ripped right from an infomercial that plays late at night between a spot for the latest Girl Gone Wild DVD and a Snuggi you can use while at work, shows the potential of what a smartphone can do if you let it scan all…
In a perfect world there would be no need to code the same application to run on multiple platforms. Developers could spend their time and energy towards building new features, or make the features their application already have easier to discover. Sadly, that’s never going to happen. It was supposed to with HTML5, but it’s…
Nokia’s upcoming Symbian^3 powered E7 has found itself on American shores in a laboratory awaiting certification by the FCC according to Engadget. The sucessor to the long in the tooth E90 is expected to start shipping next month, so it may or may not hit a store shelf near you in time for Christmas. Features…
Three out of the four mobile operators that dominate America’s wireless landscape: Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile, are putting their differences aside and are going to be working together to create a new company, in conjunction with credit card processor Discover and the UK banking institution Barclays, to bring near field communication (NFC) based mobile payments…
A 22 year old woman who the police are referring to as S Ambiga was involved in a lethal accident at a Nokia manufacturing plant in Sriperumbudur where she had been working for over 3 years. On Sunday, October 31st, her neck got caught in a machine located in the “loader phase-III” area of the…
Never before in the history of man have companies paid so much for what amounts to absolutely nothing but thin air. Spectrum, the invisible gold of our time, is a precious and limited asset needed by mobile operators to beam their signals into your home, onto the streets, and alongside the roads you drive on,…
MeeGo, the Linux based open source project that is being lead by Intel and Nokia with the goal of making Qt applications run on pretty much anything with a microprocessor inside, got a new friend today. Advanced Micro Devices, better known as AMD, announced at the first ever MeeGo conference that they’ll be joining the…