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When the graphical user interface was invented, there were people who thought it was a huge waste of system resources, and that people should simply learn how to interact with their computers via the command line. Those old men, relics of the past, were of course wrong, and both Apple and Microsoft “wasted” system resources…
You’ve got your computer password protected, or at least I hope you do, so why don’t you do the same to your mobile phone? It never ceases to amaze me how few people I know actually use the security features on their mobile devices. You arguably spend more time poking and prodding at that piece…
Chinese firm ZTE has announced that it has signed agreements with five major American technology companies (Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Freescale, ALTERA, and Broadcom) that total roughly $3 billion over the next three years. This commitment to American companies is one way the Chinese are trying to penetrate the market and ease concerns that some government…
Samsung is sending various media organizations an invite to an event scheduled to take place on the 8th of November, and saying that they’ll be launching a “new Android device”. We’ve got our thinking caps on, and we’re trying to guess if this is a handset we’ve seen before in another territory like Asia or…
Huawei is a Chinese company that has traditionally been known for their infrastructure equipment. They do cell towers, portable WiFi hotspot devices, USB dongles, but more recently they’ve been trying to shoehorn their way into the handset space. In early September they announced the IDEOS, a 2.8 inch low end Android phone. What made it…
It’s a little disappointing that webOS never took off. It has design elements in there that to this day have yet to be matched by other platforms. “Itching Thumb” is taking one of the webOS interaction metaphors, the use of cards to represent running applications, and bringing it to the Android platform. To use it…
French firm Lëkki is doing something I’ve been begging phone manufacturers to do for several years now. They’ve taken the old Motorla StarTAC, cleaned it up, gave it a fresh coat of paint, and are now selling it to customer for about 110 EUR. There’s just something about these old designs that people just love.…
Amazon, who revolutionized the online shopping experience, and is now trying, and succeeding, at making electronic books take off after many false starts, has announced that support for periodicals is coming to their Kindle application for smartphones. The first devices getting the new feature to read your favorite magazines and newspapers on your portable device…
The photo above was sent by an anonymous tipster to Engadget who says that it’s a high end Android smartphone made by LG for Verizon, and if the logos on the back of the device are any indication of what it’s capable of, then it looks like this could be one of the few LTE…
Walmart and their no contract mobile service Straight Talk has finally started offering smartphones and the first two they’re bringing to the market are Nokia’s E71 and 6790, the latter most Americans know as the “AT&T Surge“. Both devices are immediately available, will cost $245 each, and require the $45/month plan that gives users an…