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OpenSignalMaps is an Android application that shows you which cell towers you’re connected to, how strong your connection to said tower is, and provides users with maps that show which towers they happen to be near. Useful if you plan on moving to a new city and want to know which operator to sign-up with.…
LG announced their 2012 flagship device, the Optimus 4X HD, in February at Mobile World Congress. It’s been three months and it still hasn’t hit the market. That’s soon going to change though according to the company, who just announced that the UK, Germany, Sweden, Italy, and Poland will get the new Optimus in June.…
Three months ago at Mobile World Congress, HTC announced three devices under their new One brand. The One X was the flagship device, the One S was the midrange and stylish handset, and the One V was supposed to be the low end solution. This week HTC has decided to announce the Desire C, which…
Not many folks know this, but Nokia actually has two dumbphone platforms. There’s Series 40, which has been powering most midrange dumbphones for at least a decade, and then there’s an even lower end OS called Series 30. That operating system has traditionally been used for ultra low end devices, the type that normally don’t…
Last month we filed a report that said Baidu was going to release a Foxconn manufactured 1,000 RMB ($160) smartphone with a 3.5 inch screen. Today, that device becomes official. It’s called the “Changhong H5018” and it runs the “Baidu Cloud Smart Terminal platform”. Here’s how to think of this thing: Google started out a…
October feels like yesterday, but it was actually seven months ago. That’s when Verizon announced the Motorola Droid RAZR. Three months later, they showed off a variant called the RAZR Maxx. What’s the difference? One can’t last a full day and is rather difficult to hold comfortably since it’s way too thin, the other can…
John Mardini is just 22 years old, yet today he’s going to launch an MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) called Voyager Mobile. What will set his service apart from the competition? He’s going to charge just $19 per month for unlimited talking and texting or $39 per month for unlimited talking, texting, and data. Why…
Most folks haven’t heard of Straight Talk, but they’re America’s largest prepaid operator. They have agreements with all four of the major operators, unlike other prepaid operators who piggy back on just one network. Anyway, this week they’re launching a new phone: the Samsung Galaxy Proclaim. It has a 3.5 inch 480 x 320 pixel…
Announced 11 months ago, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Active (pictured above, reviewed in the video below) is a device that most people ignored since it didn’t have bleeding edge hardware specifications. We’re talking a 3 inch 480 x 320 pixel display, 1 GHz single core processor, 512 MB of RAM, and a 5 megapixel camera.…
Last year NVIDIA purchased Icera, a company that specializes in wireless modems, for $367 million. The reason for the acquisition was simple: NVIDIA wants to make system on chips for mobile phones that also come bundled with cellular connectivity. That goal is something that Qualcomm executed back in 2009 when the first smartphones with their…