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The Nokia N9, a device that we’ve been hearing about for a while, but haven’t seen up close and personal until today, is supposed to be the cock of the walk; the device that brings the company back some well deserved respect for making 4 out of every 10 mobile phones sold. We can’t tell…
Mark Shuttleworth, the father of Ubuntu, arguably one of the most successful Linux distributions out there, which is like saying it’s one of the smartest kids in remedial algebra, has revealed that the name of the upcoming 11.04 will be Natty Narwhal and that support for ARM’s low power and ubiquitous architecture will be one…
Matt Brubeck, from the Mozilla Mobile team, shared some updates on the status of Fennec 2 recently, including the tasty little tidbit that the release is destined for both MeeGo and Android mobile operating systems with a beta for Android due this fall. Fennec 1, which never really took off because it was only available…
Update: We got some video of the C7 24 hours after this post went live. Nokia’s first device with an 8 megapixel camera, the N86, was nothing more than an upgrade to the N85 meant to catch up to the competition who at the time was already producing 8 megapixel and even 12 megapixel camera…
With Apple eating Nokia’s lunch at the premium end of the market, and Google stealing developer mind share with their open source Android operating system, and the South Korean duo LG and Samsung biting the Finnish company’s feet in the low end and emerging markets, what does Nokia decide to do? Release a dumb phone…
Ericsson, the most popular supplier of wireless infrastructure equipment, has recently published some statistics including this doozy: 225,000 terabytes of data were moved every month over wireless networks during Q2 of this year. The Swedish firm goes on to say that mobile data traffic has tripled compared to this time last year and that it’s…
After many delays, which Qualcomm didn’t even mention until yesterday, the Snapdragon QSD8672 is officially going to start shipping next quarter and is expected to be in devices starting as early as Christmas, but more realistically Q1 2011, according to Computer World. The QSD8672 is made on a 45 nanometer process and features 2 cores,…
T-Mobile Chief Executive Officer Rene Obermann said during a press conference almost 2 weeks ago that there are currently no plans to upgrade to LTE for at least two years. LTE, the wireless network technology that reduces latency and increases throughput to upwards of 100 megabits per second, is currently in the process of being…
On numerous occasions we’ve called out WiMAX, not for being an inferior technology, but for battling against a competing standard, LTE, for no apparent reason. WiMAX fanbois, and yes they do exist, have insulted us for taking this stance, but today we get a little support from a little publication you might have heard about.…
The European Imaging and Sound Association [EISA] have announced their top choices for the Mobile Devices of the Year and the list is just what you would expect. Apple wins the European Tablet award, cited especially for the ability to bring magazines and newspaper into the digital world. The Beyerdynamic T 50 p win best…