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Consumer Reports, an independent agency that makes sure the stuff you buy isn’t a lemon, took it upon themselves to purchase 3 iPhone 4 handsets, each from different Apple stores, and then test them to see if this “Death Grip” wireless signal reception issue really is a problem. Guess what? The old “we calculated the…
Say you’re batshit insane and you really hate your former significant other. You sit around all day, doing what mentally challenged people usually do — which I’m assuming are activities that require adult supervision and involve the mandatory use of helmets — and while drooling and defecating yourself you scheme up a way to get…
Damian Dinning has been working at Nokia for a little over 6 years. Before he joined the Finnish firm he played around with high end camera equipment, but doesn’t exactly mention his previous experience, nor his current title and role with the world’s largest mobile phone marker. Regardless, in a 2 part blog post [part…
Opera has just launched Opera Mini 5.1, the browser that over 61 million people love when they have to endure a slow EDGE connection or have a low end device. What’s new? Not much … unless you have a clunker of a mobile phone. The new version optimizes memory usage, has a new skin so…
HSPA+ is a technology meant to maximize the lifespan of 3G. Don’t get me wrong, LTE and WiMAX is all well and good, and we’ve seen what LTE can deliver in countries like Sweden and Norway, surpassing 20 megabits per second, but do you know what the upper limit of HSPA+ is? How does 42…
Android 2.2 is fast. Stupid fast. Crazy fast. I’ve only been using it since Sunday, but I can say without hesitation that my Nexus One literally feels like a new mobile phone. I’m not alone in that regard. Ars.Technica performed the age old SunSpider, and the new school V8 Javascript benchmarks on both Android 2.2…
Update: This is what I get for reading something shat out of Google Translate. Eldar pinged the @IntoMobile twitter account (you better be subscribed!) to tell us that “it isnt true – they not to ask our servers yet. Just go to police with claim that we own Nokia trade secrets” further tweeting “Nokia blame…
Many of you have recently read that Google CEO Eric Schmidt has decided that there will be no successor to the Nexus One. I’m saddened by this, and I hope the company changes their mind. Here’s why the Google Nexus One was, and still is, important, and why the company needs to continue the Nexus…
Financial results posts can be boring if you’re not into numbers, so bear with me. HTC posted a profit of $268 million in Q2 2010, that’s up 33%. Revenues hit $1.88 billion. In April alone the company sold 4.5 million devices. Yuanta Securities analyst Bonnie Chang predicts that HTC will ship at least 20 million…
CDMA, as a wireless technology, died when Verizon, the world’s largest CDMA operator with over 92.8 million subscribers as of Q1 2010, joined the GSMA and said that they’re going to deploy an LTE network. It’s on track to be turned on this year too, with field tests involving real users happening right now. The…