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Samsung’s Galaxy S III, which was announced just two weeks ago, has already secured 9 million preorders according to Reuters. They say that an unnamed Samsung official says the Galaxy S III is being made in South Korea at a factory that’s able to produce 5 million phones per month, and that said factory is…
We all know about Samsung, the mobile handset maker, but how many of you know about Samsung, the component maker? They make the screens, processors, memory chips, and storage solutions that are found in a majority of the phones on the market today. This week the South Korean company is announcing that they’ve begun production…
Apple’s going to release a new iPhone this year. Everyone knows that. According to several anonymous sources who have spoken to Bloomberg, the sixth generation iPhone was one of the last things Steve Jobs worked on before he passed away last year. The exact quotes from the piece: “Apple co-founder Steve Jobs had worked closely…
Announced back in February at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, HTC’s One X has been out on the market for a little over a month now. Two weeks ago Samsung announced their 2012 flagship in London, the Galaxy S III, and it’ll be on store shelves in 12 days. Which one should you get? That’s…
Nokia and Samsung are famous for having portfolios that consist of 30+ devices. When Apple entered the smartphone game back in 2007, they had just one phone. Before the first iPhone even hit the market, analysts started speculating that Apple would soon offer a cheaper model to attract a wider user base; five years later…
Anything The Wall Street Journal reports regarding Apple rumors is usually true, so we’re excited that their latest piece says that the sixth generation iPhone will have a screen that’s “at least” 4 inches diagonal. Considering that the iPhone will turn 5 years old next month, and for all those years it’s stayed at 3.5…
Apple and Samsung have an interesting relationship. They compete against each other in the smartphone space, but when it comes to components, Apple simply can’t make anything without buying screens, processors, and memory chips from Samsung. Now Apple knows this, so they’ve been doing their best to wean themselves off the Samsung tit. According to…
Analyst Shaw Wu issued a note to investors yesterday that says according to his sources, Apple is going to make between 20% and 25% less iPhones in Q2 2011 because the company is preparing their factories for the upcoming sixth generation iPhone. Should we believe Shaw? Absolutely. Apple shipped 35 million iPhones during the first…
Operators need to buy spectrum, usually from governments, in order to build their networks. How do governments price spectrum? They have an auction, so the guy who is willing to pay the most money is also going to get the most spectrum. Verizon won an auction back in 2008 for some of that invisible gold,…
Mozilla is a stubborn company. They’ve been supporting Android for well over a year now, but they’ve been developing their app using their own XUL engine instead of using Android’s native user interface elements. What the hell does that mean in plain English? Mozilla put a wrapper around Firefox so that they’d have to do…