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The phone call, the simplest of services that operators sell to feed their children and expand their networks, got a huge upgrade today courtesy of Orange UK who just announced that they’re launching HD Voice. The tagline “HD Voice” is nothing more than a marketing gimmick that latches onto the High Definition hype that’s been…
Huawei has just announced what they’re calling the first mass market Android 2.2 device, the Ideos. Earlier this week I linked to an article from The Wall Street Journal that said Huawei would be releasing their first high end smartphone at IDF. Looks like they, and in turn I, got it all wrong. The Ideos…
LightSquared, who in an earlier article I jokingly called an idea scribbled on the back of a bar napkin, plans on taking on every operator in America by offering an LTE network that will use the MVNO business model, and according to documents seen by Bloomberg that plan will begin executing in 9 markets in…
T-Mobile’s insider newsletter, aptly called “SCOOP“, has revealed some details on the yet to be announced HTC G2, namely that the processor inside is clocked at 800 MHz, the operating system it runs is Android 2.2, and that the peak theoretical network speed it’ll offer customers is 14.4 Mbps. But doesn’t T-Mobile have a 21…
Thanks to Gizmodo, who showed the world that you can kill the reception of an iPhone 4 by holding it as if it was the rope needed to pull you out of a pit of quick sand, everyone started doing the same thing to their devices and low and behold the Google Nexus One suffered…
The newly released Verizon Wireless Motorola Droid 2 and summer favorite HTC Droid Incredible are on sale at Sears of all places for $100 and $80 respectively. The Incredible can be purchased by extending your contract, and the Droid 2 is sadly going to require a new contract. The spec sheets for those who may…
The Motorola DEFY is, as far as I’m aware, the first ruggedized Android device. Shipping with Android 2.1 in Europe in Q4 for an as yet to be determined price, the DEFY has a 1540 mAh battery to let you go hiking, cycling, or whatever sport you like to do, without having to worry about…
Nokia’s E72, the successor to the much loved E71, just got a firmware upgrade and with it brings compatibility with Office 2007 files, a newer version of the browser, and an update to the built in music player. If you have the E72 then hook it up to your PC and download the Software Updater.…
The Motorola Droid, the device that launched Verizon’s highly successful counterattack to Apple and AT&T’s plans for world domination, went on sale across Europe and Asia as the Milestone. It thus doesn’t take a genius to guess what the Droid 2 is going to be called then when it’s on store shelves in the UK,…
Motorla, the once giant American company that pioneered the invention of the mobile phone, has gone through a battering over the past few years and in 2011 the company is finally going to split into two separate units. Nokia Siemens Networks already purchased Motorola’s networking unit, so the only parts of the company left are…