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Samsung’s known for their smartphones and televisions, but did you know that they’re also one of the largest producers of memory and microprocessors? Last summer there was a piece in The Economist that highlighted the fact that 26% of the bill of materials of the iPhone goes straight into Samsung’s pocket. The screen, the RAM,…
Mobile data isn’t free. You know that, we know that, and we thought everyone else knew that, but according to a recent survey that was done by comScore, we couldn’t have been more wrong. They say that 29% of iPhone users in the US connect to the internet using nothing but cellular data. That number…
Nokia issued a press release back in late April 2011 that said they were going to get rid of their Symbian employees. Instead of firing them, Nokia said they’d transfer them to Accenture instead. Why? Because it takes people off Nokia’s payroll, which improves earnings, which makes the stock go up; that and it’s easier…
Last September we heard rumors that NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, Fujitsu, NEC, and Panasonic were going to get together to try and take on Qualcomm. The news became official a few months later in December. Here we are, barely at the start of the second quarter of the year, and they’ve decided to call it quits.…
The difference between a service company and a hardware company is that the latter tries to bundle an exclusive widget with their device so they can make some additional money at the point of purchase. If you’re selling a service however, whether that be Twitter, Facebook, or Audible, then you as a company try your…
Back in January of this year we covered a story out of Japan that centered around one particular operator, KDDI, pushing ads to customers via the notification bar that all Android devices come with. You know the one we’re talking about, the bar you pull down from the top of the screen that shows you…
Today’s flagship smartphones are using chips built by a variety of vendors. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus uses a Texas Instruments OMAP4460. HTC’s One X has an NVIDIA Tegra 3 in Europe and Asia, but a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 in America. The upcoming Galaxy S III will likely use a Samsung made Exynos chip. Apple designs…
Laptops, which have traditionally been powered by Intel’s x86 chips, don’t get the kind of battery life that your smartphone or tablet does, right? So why not make a laptop that uses the same sort of chips that power your mobile device? That was the thinking behind Qualcomm’s invention of the “smartbook” brand back in…
Samsung’s Galaxy S III is, without a shadow of doubt, going to be the best Android smartphone to hit the market this year. Early reviews of HTC’s One X are starting to trickle in and they’re not exactly flattering. Some folks are saying that it’s simply not good enough. So why are we so bullish…
It’s kind of funny when you think about it. The first iPhone didn’t support applications, because Steve Jobs didn’t want other people ruining his perfect little baby. But then the enthusiast community stirred up such a ruckus that Apple caved in and not only started supporting apps, but also built a marketplace where developers could…