The iPhone 4 “Death Grip“, basically holding the device in your left hand and then watching the signal degrade one bar at a time until there is no more signal to be had, is a wildly reported issue. How could Apple have missed out on such a basic flaw? Simple really. They’re all about keeping…
State of the Mobile Web May 2010: Browser usage peaks in the evening
It’s that time of the month again. Time for Opera to release their “State of the Mobile Web” report loaded with facts and figures sourced from the millions of users who use the Opera Mini web browser. Unlike previous reports, this one has an added data set. Opera took data from May 22, 2010 and…
Google makes Android 2.2 on the Nexus One official [You’ll get it by the end of the week]
Earlier we reported that Android 2.2 “Froyo” was available for Nexus One owners. Well … that wasn’t 100% right. It turned out that Froyo came out for some people who already updated to a leaked version of Froyo. Shit happens. Anyway, what you need to know now is that Google, the big G, has written…
Nokia RM-626 (N9?) shown on video [Like the N8, but with a keyboard and 8 MP camera]
The Nokia N8 hasn’t even shipped yet, and already we have a variant out in the wild being shown off on video. The Nokia RM-626, which will either be called the N9 or possibly be reclassified under the Cseries category due to the C0 marking shown on the top left hand corner of the device,…
Ultrabrief: Apple sells over 1.7 million iPhone 4 units in 3 days
Apple, iPhone 4, new sales record. Thats the story today, as Apple announces that it took the Cupertino-based company less than a week – well, only 3 days – to sell over 1.7 million iPhone 4 units. That’s means the company sold more than half a million iPhone 4 units every day in the first…
Nokia pokes fun at the iPhone 4 reception issue by highlighting the only thing they still do right
The iPhone 4 has a bit of a problem if you hold it with your left hand. You go from full bars, to no bars, and it’s caused by Apple thinking up the concept of making the antenna the actual frame of the device. Problem with this is when you touch two points of the…
Twitter for iPhone gets updated to support multitasking and retina display
Twitter’s official iPhone application, made possible due to the acquisition of Atebits back in April of this year, has been updated to support iPhone 4 and the new capabilities that iOS 4 has to offer. Updated graphics make sure you’re getting the most out of Apple’s “retina display”, and there’s also “more secure” tweeting ……
Samsung invests $2.1 billion in South Korean factory that will make nothing but OLED screens for phones
To quote Durran Durran, Samsung is “hungry like the wolf”. They want to be the world’s number one producer of mobile phones, smartphones in particular, and in order to achieve that goal they’re going to have to match Nokia’s infrastructure. There’s a reason that Nokia makes 2 out of every 5 mobile phones shipped. They’ve…
QoTD: HTC: “What we deliver now is 10% to 20% of what we want.”
Forbes interviewed Horace Luke, the Chief Innovation Officer at HTC. He joined the company in 2007, and has a history with Microsoft, where he worked on the XBOX and Windows Mobile, Nike, where he designed exhibition spaces, and has also designed furniture, jewelry, and even dabbled in architecture. A modern renaissance man. When Forbes National…
Chart of the Day: Nokia used to be 14x larger than Apple, but is now 1/8th the size of the Cupertino fruit
Bloomberg came out with a chart today that will no doubt be used as ammunition by Apple fanbois in internet forums the world over. It shows Apple’s market cap, today, at being roughly $247 billion. That’s the same market cap Nokia had back in the year 2000, which let me remind you, was a full…