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Cricket Wireless, one of America’s smaller wireless operators, will be releasing an Android 4.0 powered ZTE smartphone this summer called the Nova 4.0 V8000. We seriously hope that name gets changed. Anyway, what’s under the hood of this thing? There’s a 1.4 GHz single core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 1 GB of RAM, an 8 megapixel…
LG has recently said that they’re going to focus on Android and that they have no Windows Phones in the pipeline. They didn’t say they’ll abandon Microsoft’s platform altogether, but just read between the lines. According to FierceWireless, who interviewed Chris Weber, Nokia’s President for the Americas, LG’s decision isn’t necessarily a bad thing. He…
Telefónica, better known as O2 in the UK, has just launched an iOS application called “TU Me”. If you know what Skype does, then you know what TU Me does. It has free voice over IP calling, it has instant messaging, photo sharing, and you’ll even be able to share your location. The catch? It…
Twitter updated their user interface late last year, and many people, myself included, hated it. They then updated their mobile apps to look like their new website. I hated the new iPhone app so much that I spent $0.99 to buy Tweetbot from Tapbots and have never looked back. Anyway, this new user interface hasn’t…
Standards are great. People create them so that things can work together and everyone can contribute to an ecosystem, whether that be the standard power outlet in your wall, the HTML standard that powers your web browser and this website, or the chip on your credit card that works pretty much anywhere. Standards don’t work…
Tiny Wings is one of my favorite iOS games. Despite not being able to beat the last level, no matter how hard I try, I still play it whenever I have a few minutes to kill. Andreas Illiger, the guy who made the game, was recently interviewed by Flow Studio. They asked him what he…
Before we get to today’s news, you need some backstory: Nokia started work on a Linux based mobile operating system called Maemo back in 2005. It got better over time, just have a look at the Nokia N9 to get an idea of what we’re talking about. Now Maemo wasn’t the only Linux mobile OS…
Samsung’s Galaxy Note, despite being a ridiculous product on paper, has ended up in the hands of over 5 million people. It began shipping in October 2011 with Android 2.3 Gingerbread, which coincidentally was the same month that Google unveiled Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Besides having a gorgeous new user interface, ICS was also…
Yesterday one of my friends posted an image on Facebook of one of Nokia’s offices here in Finland. What made said image striking was that the Nokia logo that was once on the building had been removed. The Ruoholahti office, from what I remember back in my Nokia days, was where the Linux people worked.…
Last week we reported that ASUS was going to delay the PadFone, yet again, because they’re not getting enough Snapdragon S4 chips from Qualcomm. We’re sad to report that it looks like Pantech is having the same problem. Now most folks don’t associate Pantech with bleeding edge hardware, and that’s certainly true if you just…