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Swedish mobile operator TeliaSonera, the first operator in the world to launch an LTE network all the way back in December 2009, has joined 4 other companies (ASSA ABLOY, Choice Hotels Scandinavia, Venyon and VingCard Elsafe) to conduct a 4 month trial whereby customers checking into the Clarion Hotel in Stockholm will be able to…
Chinese firm Spreadtrum Communications has announced their SC6600L6 single chip solution that lets phone manufacturers build devices that can support up to 4 SIM cards, and best of all those SIM cards can all be active. This is good news for men who cheat on their wives, people who deal drugs, or … that’s all…
Peter Jones, a star on a British reality television show called Dragons’ Den, launched his own mobile phone brand dubbed “Toughphone”. Not the most creative name, but whatever, let’s continue. This week he’s going to introduce 3 different models, and one of them is called the “Tradesman”. It’s going to be the first mobile phone…
With Apple’s iPad taking the world by storm, and with more operators signing on board to offer it to consumers, the tablet market has officially taken off. You know what that means, right? Competition. Samsung, with their Galaxy Tab, has tried to enter the spotlight, but reviews are mixed, especially since Google themselves are saying…
Symbian users who enjoy listening to podcasts on the go have typically had only one way to get their fix, and that’s with Nokia’s own built in client that for some reason or another enjoys being available on some devices, but not on others. A third party client called Symbian Podcatcher, which is based on…
A recent survey performed by Keynote Systems, commissioned by Adobe, shows that in a majority of cases people would rather use a mobile website than go hunting for an application. Does this really surprise anyone? Apps, to be frank, are overrated. Why would anyone want to force people to go into an App Store, then…
British firm ARM, who designs the chips that go into just about every single mobile phone on the planet, has published their Q3 2010 financial results and of all the facts and figures they present, that one that stands out to this writer is that 9% of the processors their licensees shipped were of the…
Above and beyond all the things Apple is known for, it’s there exploration of new materials to use for their consumer hardware that has impressed me the most. While most companies are still using black shiny finger print magnet plastic for their products, Apple has switched nearly their entire lineup to devices made out of…
Operators have traditionally made their money from the services that made landline phones popular a century ago: voice. Then SMS came and the profit margin on those, since they’re a fraction of a penny to send and receive, paved the way for yet another infusion of cash that could be used to do useful things…