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Deep down inside, I have a thing for ultra low end phones. How little money can I spend on a device that will do damn near everything my high end smartphone does? Earlier today I was delighted to find out that the Samsung Galaxy Pocket is now available for preorder here in Finland. At 140…
Randall Stephenson, AT&T’s CEO, is a man who can’t sit still. He recently spoke to CNN about the company’s current situation, how they can’t find enough skilled labor in America. We’ll get to that in a second. The thing we want to highlight is an account that Alex Elizardo, a student at the University of…
Winston Yung, an Americanized name if we ever heard one, is no longer HTC’s Chief Financial Officer. He’s been replaced by Chia-Lin Chang, who is not only a former Motorola engineer, but also a former Goldman Sachs partner. So why did HTC do this? These next few weeks are going to be absolutely vital for…
Nokia’s smartphone unit doesn’t make any money. In fact, if it wasn’t for the feature phone division, there wouldn’t be a Nokia. Now during the past year or two we’ve heard about the Finnish handset maker closing their factories in Germany, Finland, Romania, and several other countries. Why? Because at the end of the day…
When Stephen Elop, Nokia’s CEO, announced that he was going to bet the farm on Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform, the world stood still for a moment in disbelief. Did he make the right decision? According to Europe’s wireless operators, the answer is no. Four operators were interviewed by Retuers, here’s what one said: “No one…
What happens when you land in a new city and you can’t read any of the posted signs since you don’t understand the local language? For most folks, they stop and ask the locals, but geeks don’t like human contact, so they invent technology to help them solve their issues. Enter Google. Back in February…
Sprint’s going to launch a 4G LTE network this summer that’ll initially cover five to six cities. By the end of the year, Sprint expects to cover over 123 million Americans, and by the end of next year they expect that figure to climb to 250 million Americans. To put that number into some perspective,…
Last Monday, Easter Monday, AT&T started selling the Nokia Lumia 900 in the United States. According to The Wall Street Journal, who quotes Paul Roth, President of Retail Sales at AT&T, sales have “exceeded” expectations. What were those expectations in the first place? We’ll never know. Some people point to Amazon’s best sellers list as…
Windows Phone hasn’t exactly been a success, and it’s not very hard to see why. Despite Microsoft working their ass off for the past two years, their mobile OS just isn’t up to snuff compared to Android or iOS. We think this will change when Windows Phone 8, codename Apollo, comes out later this year.…
Three days ago I posted a Twitter conversation I had with Eldar Murtazin, Editor in Chief of Mobile-Review, where he said that he was going to be in London on May 2nd for what might possibly be the unveiling of the Samsung Galaxy S III. Now, thanks to Tweakers.net, we know for a fact that…