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For some strange reason the Chinese had a rule that said you can’t ship devices with WiFi, instead you had to use the home brewed version called WAPI. This isn’t anything new. The Chinese, due to pride and a lack of willingness to pay royalty fees, always clone a Western standard and make their own.…
MetroPCS, the little operator that could, is racing against Verizon Wireless to launch their LTE network and claim the title of having the first proper 4G network in America. WiMAX doesn’t count. During MetroPCS’ latest conference call, CEO Roger Linquist dropped a few new tidbits: the Samsung SCH-r900, which was a mouthful to say and…
Correction: Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg is not going to keynote CTIA, it’s going to be Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam. Hot off the news that Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg is going to deliver the opening CTIA 2010 keynote, today we’re finding out that this cool cat is also going to be headlining CES 2011. Now…
The Google Nexus One, my personal favorite Android phone and my first non-Nokia purchase in what feels like half a decade, was put out to pasture prematurely for reasons that many in the mobile technology community have yet to understand. The goal of the Nexus One was to offer consumers unlocked mobile phones, or for…
Every time I read about the Nokia N8 I can’t help but think to myself how awesome would be if it simply ran Android. The camera is bad ass. HDMI out … rock. Full Dolby Sound support, even better. But Symbian? Do I really want to go back to that? Kicking and screaming, maybe. Apparently…
In a world of ultra violence, sheer clumsiness, and forgetfulness when it comes to such simple tasks as plugging your mobile phone in to charge, the newly announced Samsung E2370 X-treme, yes with a hypen between the first two letters, stands above the rest as a mobile phone for our generation. Gone are features such…
Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Reuters that there are now roughly 200,000 Android devices being sold every day. Compare that to 165,000 phones/day sold during Q2 and only 65,000 phones/day in Q1. To put that into some perspective, 200,000 devices per day, 90 days in a quarter, that’s 18 million phones. That’s almost as much…
The HTC Vanguard, which has also been going under the names “G1 Blaze“, “Vision”, and now more recently “Glacier” has been benchmarked prior to going live on the T-Mobile HSPA+ network and it’s quite the speed demon. When compared to the iPhone 4 and Samsung Galaxy S, two of the fastest mobile phones on the…
A video has been floating around on the internet showing what appears to be Nokia’s custom interface to the Linux based MeeGo operating system. It’s flashy, it’s clean, it’s … total bullshit. During my 1.5 years at Nokia I saw many of these concept videos shown. They’re made by pixel pushers as a goal, an…
Hate phone calls? Hate Bluetooth headsets? Mike Haeg from Minnesota decided to do something creative about it. Here’s the inside of his creation: And him using the product: If this doesn’t cheer up your Tuesday, I don’t know what will. [Via: Gizmodo, Boing Boing]