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Back in October of last year, Samsung did something that the world didn’t expect. They started shipping a smartphone with a 5.3 inch screen called the Galaxy Note. I’ll be the first to admit, I laughed at that thing till my sides hurt; I even declared it dead on arrival. Boy was I wrong. Just…
Microsoft announced their intent to purchase Skype almost a year ago. The deal closed in mid October, which is over six months ago. Why are these dates important? Because it’s only now that Microsoft has released Skype for Windows Phone. Version 1.0 does many of the things you’d except Skype to do out of the…
LG announced “the world’s first quad core smartphone” at Mobile World Congress in February of this year. Dubbed the Optimus 4X HD, it still hasn’t hit the market, meanwhile the HTC One X has, and it has the same quad core NVIDIA Tegra 3 inside. Anyway, just like the HTC One X has a dual…
Late last year, in October to be precise, Samsung started selling a 5.3 inch smartphone called the Galaxy Note. I’ll be the first to admit, I laughed at that thing until my sides hurt, but recently I’ve had a change of heart. Someone I know got one and he was kind enough to lend me…
For as long as we can remember, there have been rumors circulating around the internets that Apple was going to build a low cost iPhone for cost sensitive consumers. Later we found out that Apple’s strategy to reach more users was to simply keep on selling the older models, but at a significant discount. Take…
Ever heard of Baidu? They’re the Chinese version of Google. Like Google, they started out with a search engine, but these days they offer a whole swath of cloud services such as email and even social networking. Back in September 2011, the company announced Baidu Yi OS, which can best be described as Android, except…
Since Windows Phone first started shipping back in Q4 2010, there have been two software updates: NoDo, which added copy and paste and CDMA support; and Mango, which added multitasking, a newer version of Internet Explorer, and a whole bunch of UI tweaks. Now there’s a third update scheduled to go out this month called…
Apple’s engineers custom designed the A4, A5, and A5X chips that are found inside their products. Samsung puts their own Exynos chips inside their smartphones and tablets. Back in February of this year, Huawei announced that they’re going to fit a custom chip inside their flagship Android device, the Ascend D1 Quad. This begs the…
Anyone remember Palm and webOS? The fundamentals of that operating system were way ahead of their time. What Palm did was essentially create a Linux based operating system, make all the APIs that you’d need for calling, texting, etc., and then they decided to build the webOS user interface in HTML and JavaScript. That’s right,…
Motorola announced an incredible smartphone at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year. They took a device that was already gorgeous, the RAZR, and then somehow managed to stick a 3,300 mAh battery inside it. Dubbed the RAZR Maxx, even with all that extra battery battery power it still managed to be thinner than…