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With over 1 billion downloads to date, it’s safe to say that Rovi’s creation, Angry Birds, is an amazing success story. But what comes after that? Is the company going to milk the Angry Birds franchise for all that it’s worth? According to ArcticStartup, the answer is no. Earlier this week Rovio purchased the two…
HTC revealed three devices at Mobile World Congress in February. The flagship One X, which ships with a quad core processor in Europe and Asia, but a dual core processor in America; the midrange One S, which has an amazing body, but a PenTile display; and the budget One V, which is the 2012 version…
Deutsche Telekom, who owns T-Mobile USA, doesn’t want to do business in America anymore, but they can’t take their company behind the barn and but a bullet in its head. They tried to offload T-Mobile USA to AT&T, but the government stepped in and told them that they’re clinically insane. According to Bloomberg, Deutsche Telekom’s…
According to a tweet from Devin Balentina, who runs The Nokia Guide, Samsung has started pushing out Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to owners of the Galaxy Note. The update weighs in at roughly 320 MB and says it has a new “S Note App” and “S Note Widget”. The South Korean handset vendor has…
Nokia announced their decision to bet the farm on Windows Phone roughly 15 months ago. They’ve had their Lumia devices out on the market since November 2011. We know they sold 2 million Windows Phones during the first three months of this year, and now we’re waiting until July to hear how many they sold…
Paul Thurrott is to Microsoft what John Gruber is to Apple. By that I mean he’s been championing the desktop software giant since the 1990s. He recently wrote a piece on The Supersite for Windows where he outlined how Windows Phone 8 might land straight on its face due to the following reasons: First, Windows…
Companies like to jam as many features into their smartphones as humanly possible so that they can lure potential customers with a feature list that’s as thick as a Manhattan phonebook. There are three ways to plump up said feature list. They can build new and innovative features themselves, partner with a company that already…
Announced back in October 2011, the Motorola Droid RAZR for Verizon Wireless has been somewhat of a mixed bag. It’s insanely thin and gorgeous, but that PenTile AMOLED display just ruins the device. There was a fatter version (8.9 mm) introduced three months later called the RAZR MAXX that came with a 3,300 mAh battery,…
SIM cards used to be the size of credit cards, but then they shrunk down to a much more manageable size called the miniSIM. It’s so ubiquitous these days that everyone forgoes the mini prefix and just calls it “the SIM card”. Apple, looking to maximize the amount of stuff they could put inside a…
Mail for Exchange, for those of you who have never heard of it, is what many business rely on to provide their employees with an integrated email, calendar, and contact solution. It’s something that’s been exclusive to smartphones for a while now, but Nokia’s looking to change that by introducing Mail for Exchange for their…