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Japanese operator DOCOMO releases their mobile phones like the fashion world releases clothes, meaning a whole bunch at a time, twice per year. Recently the company unveiled their Spring 2011 lineup, and while we’re not going to go through all 28 devices announced, mainly because none of us are going to be able to buy…
Nokia, along with just about every other phone manufacturer on the planet, put their devices through a series of tests to see how well they’ll stand up to every day wear and tear. Most people don’t know that, so when they see a video like the one below they walk away impressed and full of…
Apple’s advertising platform, uncreatively called iAd, is going to be coming to Japan in early 2011 thanks to a partnership with The Dentsu Group. The press release that breaks this news fails to shed some light as to how iAd is performing overall, and it’s something that many in the advertising industry are curious to…
New Millennium Research Council (NMRC) commissioned a survey [PDF file] of 1,008 Americans during the second week of October and found that an estimated 24.6 million consumers, or 1 in 5 people who currently have a mobile phone on some sort of 1 or 2 year contract, are either planning to or considering switching to…
Qualcomm, the firm most commonly associated with the Snapdragon platform that powers many Google Android devices and literally every Windows Phone 7 device, is rumored to have spent $55 billion acquiring New York based Sandbridge Technologies. They specialize in what’s known as “software defined radios”, or in plain English: they make processors that can connect…
Highly regarded analyst firm Gartner has issued their Q3 2010 smartphone figures and the results shouldn’t really come as a shock to anyone. The smartphone category, pioneered by Palm, perfected by Apple, and made available to all social classes by Nokia, is on the up and up with over 80 million shipping during the third…
Analyst firm Juniper Research is predicting that with all the LTE networks launching around the world, revenues coming in from the new high speed cellular networking technology will reach $100 billion by the year 2014. They also say that a majority of that revenue will come from enterprise laptop and tablet users, and that consumer…
Square Trade, a company that makes money by selling consumers insurance on the expensive gadgets they buy to fill their techno-lust, has released a study detailing who makes the most reliable smartphones, and which devices are more prone to be damaged by accidents. In terms of random malfunctioning, meaning one day your phone just decides…
A recent study done by the American Public Health Association on 4,257 students in an urban Midwestern school district shows that those who spend more time interacting with their friends via text messages or social networks are more likely to have problems with alcohol and drugs. The exact terms used are “hypertexters”, those who go…
They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, and I’m ashamed to admit that I used to profile people based on what type of mobile phone they carried. Seems like I might have been right all along because data collected by personal finance service Pageonce shows that an average iPhone users charges around…