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An hour and a half north of Helsinki there’s a small city called Tampere. It was recently voted the best place in Finland to live. That makes me mad since I actually used to live there back in 2007 and 2008, but anyway, in Tampere there’s an amusement park called Särkänniemi. It’s like Six Flags,…
Nokia apparently can’t make the Lumia 900 fast enough. What does that mean? We’re going to have to wait until July, when the Finnish handset maker posts their Q2 2012 financial results, to know how many units they actually sold. Anyway, the question on everyone’s mind after the Lumia 900 started shipping in the United…
When it comes to Windows Phone manufacturers, one notable company has thus far refused to dip their toe into the water: Huawei. That’s soon going to change according to WPDang, who says that the Chinese handset maker has assembled a team of 70 engineers to work on a pair of Windows Phone 8 devices. One…
Samsung has released an Android app called “SAMSUNG mobile UNPACKED 2012“. It’s basically a direct channel to Samsung’s marketing people for hardcore phone geeks who want to know everything about what the South Korean handset will announce during their press conference on May 3rd in London. We’re not joking, the app will feature press releases,…
Two months ago, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, LG announced a 5 inch smartphone called the Vu. It’s a direct competitor to the Samsung Galaxy Note, except for a few crucial things. First, the Vu’s screen has an aspect ratio of 4:3, whereas the Galaxy Note does 16:10. What does this mean in practice?…
Fitch Ratings, one of the handful of companies that people pay attention to when it comes to investment advice, has downgraded Nokia’s credit rating to junk status. What does this mean? When Nokia wants to borrow money to do things like build a factory or make a large order from a component supplier, the interest…
ST-Ericsson, as the name implies, is a joint venture that was setup between STMicroelectronics and Ericsson back in February 2009. You’ve probably never heard of them, and for good reason too. There’s no nice way of saying, so here it goes: They move at a snail’s in an industry that demands them to run like…
Jamie Townsend, an analyst with Town Hall Investment Research, has issued a report that says the Nokia Lumia 900 on AT&T is selling at a run rate of about 1 million units for Q2 2012. What exactly does that mean? Jamie is basically saying that if the Lumia 900 keeps on selling at the same…
Just about every iPhone and every Android device currently on the market supports a nifty little feature whereby the phone will act as a wireless hotspot that any normal WiFi enabled device can use to access the internet. Need to check something out on your iPad, download a new book on your Kindle, upload a…
When Apple showed off the iPhone back in January 2007, they blew people’s minds with the all screen design and the slick user interface. A key element of that UI that often gets overlooked is the home button. It sits all alone, right under the screen, and no matter what a user is doing, all…