Earlier this year British chip design firm ARM said that a new architecture, code name Eagle, a successor to the Cortex A9, would be unveiled this year and today I’m happy to introduce to you the Cortex A15. Available in configurations that range from a single 1 GHz processor to a quad core 2.5 GHz…
Samsung Galaxy S coming to China in 3 different flavors: CDMA, TD-SCDMA, and WCDMA
The highly popular Samsung Galaxy S, which sold over 1 million units both in the United States and South Korea, will be coming to all three of China’s operators using their respective wireless technologies. China Telecom will get getting a CDMA variant, the SCH-I909 that is most likely the same device recently launched by Verizon…
With the Nokia E68 the Chinese prove they can be innovative when designing clones
China is famous for exporting 3 things: delicious food, communism, and mobile phones that look remarkably similar to devices sold in the west, but are sold for far cheaper since they’re nothing but clones built in shady factories that the government turns a blind eye to. With the release of the Nokia E68, or Nokla…
Future SD cards to hit 300 Mbps with new design, same form factor
SD cards are ubiquitous and many of you have them inside your mobile phone to either carry your entire music collection on the go, record HD video, or to snap thousands upon thousands of photos, but don’t you sometimes wish that they were just a teeny bit faster? With the upcoming SD 4.0 specification [PDF],…
Cricket: Samsung Messager Touch: QWERTY has never been so cheap, so feature packed
Mobile phones with QWERTY keyboards are not going away anytime soon, regardless of how fast you think you can type on the piece of glass in your pocket, many want to push buttons and Cricket Wireless, one of America’s lesser known operators, is appeasing both sides of the keyboard versus touch debate by launching the…
Former Google China president to launch new mobile OS called Tapas based on Android
Kai-Fu Lee, the former president of Google’s China operation, is set to launch a new mobile operating system in the next few weeks called Tapas according to The Wall Street Journal. It’s based on Google’s open source Android operating system, but is tailored for the Chinese market with additional software that can identify which city…
Poland becomes the 4th (5th?) country in the world to switch on LTE [153 Mbps down, 48 Mbps up]
CenterNet and Mobyland, two Polish operators, have just announced that they’ve launched an LTE network using 20 MHz of spectrum on the 1800 MHz band according to LTE World. By the end of this year an estimated 700 cell towers will be covering over 7 million people with mobile broadband that achieves as much as…
Samsung N350: Dual core netbook with a little bit of HSPA+ and LTE thrown in [Videos!]
Samsung waited until the very end of the ongoing IFA conference in Berlin to announce the N350, a dual core Intel Atom based notebook with built in dual mode HSPA+ and LTE capability. With operators around the world set to turn their LTE networks on by the end of this year, and many more in…
HTC holding press event in London on September 15th; Windows Phone 7, Android, and Tablets are likely
Various members of England’s technology press core have been invited to an event hosted by HTC scheduled to take place on the 15th of September at the Hyatt Hotel in London. Rumor has it that a successor to the highly praised HTC HD2 will be announced, and that it’ll be called the HD3, run Windows…
Want to make your iPhone 4 look like a Nokia N97 Mini? There’s a case for that!
For all of Apple’s advancements in mobile phone design, both in terms of hardware and software, one thing that a handful of users have been clamoring for is a hardware keyboard and as luck with have it there’s a company called Nuu that has just announced a case that gives your iPhone 4 a Nokia…