Luke Hutchison, a self proclaimed “Android Hacker” and PhD candidate at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, loves his Nexus One, just like all us other Nexus One owners do, but his screen was not quite delivering the results he expected. Compared to the Motorola Droid, which has a similar 3.7 inch screen, but…
HTC CEO Peter Chou: We’ll have a Windows Phone 7 Series device out by the end of the year
HTC CEO Peter Chou, in an interview with Elizabeth Woyke of Forbes during the ongoing CTIA conference, revealed a few tidbits worth mentioning: Regardless of the consumer success of the Nexus One, the device has managed to bring in new business for HTC. The Nexus One showed the world that HTC is the top Android…
QotD: “Palm’s intellectual property is along the same order of magnitude as Apple”
The future of Palm isn’t looking very good. Their stock price is hovering at around $4 giving it a market cap of a little over $672 million. They’re sitting on tons of excess inventory, and their hardware isn’t exactly known for its robustness. People are saying that the company will be acquired sooner rather than…
Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo gets paid 5.3 million EUR in 2009, up 68% from 2008 figures
When a dog brings you your newspaper in the morning, you give him a biscuit for doing a good job. When Nokia fires several hundred people over the course of a year, the CEO gets an extra 2 million EUR for doing … what exactly? In an age when Motorola’s CEOs both took a 25%…
Photo: Apple iPhone 3GS vs. HTC/Google Nexus One Infographic
Kyle, from iFixit, just shot me an email to let me know about an awesome infographic that their team compiled which compares the Google Nexus One to the Apple iPhone 3GS. Some of the stuff I already knew, like the fact that the iPhone has a 600 MHz processor, while the Nexus One rocks out…
AT&T’s femtocell, which they’re calling “Microcell”, going nationwide: $150 or $50 w/ $20/month plan
Will is running into a meeting right now with AT&T to talk about their first femtocell, dubbed “Microcell”, which has been in trials for well over a year, and how it’s finally being made available to AT&T customers nationwide. That means I get to write up the press release. Oh joy! The concept of a…
4G in America: Lies, Lies, and More Damn Lies
Listen up America, by the end of this year, and most definitely during 2011, you’re going to be bombarded with advertisements that stretch across all forms of media, tempting you to hop on board a 4G network. Let’s get this out of the way right now: 4G, as the word is currently being used, is…
MetroPCS to turn on LTE network during 2H10; Samsung will have an LTE handset at launch
MetroPCS, one of America’s smaller mobile operators with only 6.6 million subscribers out of a potential 144 million given their coverage map, has said that they’re going to launch an LTE network during the second half of this year. At launch customers will be able to pick up the Samsung SCH-r900, the world’s first dual-mode…
Ultrabrief: Qualcomm makes LTE, dual carrier HSPA+, available for laptops
Qualcomm’s skillz in the modem business are becoming more and more evident each day. Yesterday they announced that they’re adding LTE support to their Gobi line of modems. If your next laptop has the Gobi MDM9600 modem inside then you’re ready to support 100 Mbps LTE, EV-DO Revision A, and B, and dual carrier HSPA+…
Opera counting the time it takes until Opera Mini is approved by Apple to go into the App Store
Opera has some serious balls, and judging by people’s reactions to the video they posted yesterday of Opera Mini running on the iPhone, we know where they’ve found this immense source of confidence. Their product is spectacular, but they can’t offer it to consumers without the thumbs up or thumbs down from Steve Jobs and…