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This is a spoof video on the Apple iPhone 4 Antennagate issue where Darth Vader calls AT&T and gives them a hard time about the iPhone 4 reception problem, how the carriers in the US don’t work together, and how the new Apple phone is still better than the EVO 4G or Droid X. It’s…
What you’re looking at above is a photo leaked to Engadget of what is supposedly the HTC Vision, due to launch on T-Mobile later this year. This joins the blurry photo we’ve seen in the past, but new details suggest it has a 3.7 inch screen rather than a giant 4.3 inch display like on…
Late last year T-Mobile became the first and only operator to sell Android devices that allowed direct billing to the operator. In plain English, what T-Mobile allowed you to do was buy an application from Android’s Market and have the payment tacked on to next month’s bill. Tim Bray, from Google’s Official Android Developer’s Blog,…
The Associated Press published 1,000 words on what the FCC is currently trying to do with regards to the D Block of wireless spectrum and how it’s going to impact the networks that public safety (think cops, fire fighters, ambulances, etc.) employees use. It’s tightly written, information dense, and I’d be doing it a disservice…
LiMo and GNOME, two open source groups that frankly have little to no mainstream acceptance, are getting together make open source more popular. A goal open source advocates have had since the beginning of time. The LiMo Foundation will become a member of GNOME Foundation’s Advisory Board and the GNOME Foundation will become an Industry…
HTC has a problem. It’s a good problem to have, but it’s a problem none the less. They can’t make enough devices utilizing the 3.7 inch OLED display they’ve been using since the launch of the Nexus One in January. The issue is wreaking so much havoc that they’ve decided to switch to Sony’s “Super…
The FCC released a report yesterday that said the new definition for what they consider to be “broadband” is now 4 megabits per second of download speed, and 1 megabit per second upload speed. Under the new definition there are 24 million people in America who don’t have broadband. To put that into some perspective,…
Nokia just published their Q2 2010 financial results, and as always it’s a lot to take in since they provide an amazing amount of statistics. Let’s go through the most important figures: Nokia had $10 billion worth of sales this quarter. That’s up 1% compared to the same quarter last year, and up 5% from…
You know how we’re living in 2010? Walt Mossberg from The Wall Street Journal chides Samsung for not putting an “ultra–high resolution screen” inside their Galaxy S. How many pixels are on the Galaxy S? It’s got 800 pixels of height and 480 pixels across. He’s right, it’s lower than the iPhone 4, which has…
Apple has just appointed Jeff Williams, who joined the company over a decade ago after leaving IBM, to Senior Vice President of Operations. His previous role? Vice President of Operations. He’s now playing with the big boys, and is expected to be Tim Cook’s new best friend. Cook is expected to become the new CEO…