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Microsoft’s got a bit of a problem. Developers have a finite amount of time and resources to make apps, so before they start coding they take a look at the current mobile landscape to gauge which platforms are hot. Newsflash: Windows Phone is a dud. Rovio, the guys behind Angry Birds, demonstrated this harsh reality…
Earlier today I published a piece highlighting some benchmark numbers from HTC’s One X, the version with Qualcomm’s S4 Snapdragon inside. For those of you who don’t know this, there are two One X variants. The Europeans and the Asians are going to get the version of the One X with a quad core NVIDIA…
NVIDIA’s marketing department is desperately trying to convince the world that their quad core Tegra 3 chip is the pinnacle of human achievement. The thing is, it isn’t. The Tegra 3 uses four ARM Cortex A9 chips. Qualcomm’s new S4 Snapdragon on the other hand uses a pair of custom made Krait cores that deliver…
Chances are that if you’re reading this you know what a SIM card is; it’s that tiny little piece of plastic that you shove inside a phone so that it can connect to a wireless network. The smallest SIM card standard currently on the market is the microSIM. Apple was the first to use it…
AT&T’s Windows Phone portfolio is going to grow by two on April 8th. The first device, the Nokia Lumia 900, we covered earlier today. It’s basically the Lumia 800, but with a 4.3 inch screen and 4G LTE connectivity. Not bad for $99. The second device though, the HTC Titan II, is a beast. It…
Microsoft’s latest Windows Phone advertising campaign, “Smoked by Windows Phone“, is an interesting little idea. Some Microsoft marketing guy will give you a task to perform on your smartphone. The adman will perform the same operation on his Windows Phone. Both of you then simultaneously try to achieve this arbitrary goal while being recorded for…
HTC’s Thunderbolt, Verizon’s first 4G LTE enabled smartphone, shipped one year ago this month. That’s pretty insane when you think about it. The Thunderbolt was laughably immature, had a battery life of about 40 minutes, and here we are, one year later, and both AT&T and Verizon have a wide portfolio of Android smartphones that…
Today’s Windows Phones don’t have near field communication (NFC) support. Not because there isn’t any NFC hardware out there, but because Microsoft hasn’t built the protocol into the platform. Later this year, with the release of Windows Phone 8, that’ll obviously change, but how will Microsoft market the feature? According to NFC World, Microsoft just…
Rovio, the Finnish company that became an international sensation overnight when the launched the Angry Birds franchise back in 2009, has launched a sequel called Angry Birds Space. Now there have been other versions of Angry Birds released over the past few years, but they’ve all been nothing more than themed versions. One for Halloween,…
Samsung Mobile’s Vice President of Design, Lee Minhyouk, was recently profiled by Reuters, and while there’s no new information in there regarding upcoming products, it’s still a damn good interview that we recommend everyone with any interest whatsoever in the mobile should read. Here’s a few highlights: Christian Lindholm, Chief “Innovation Officer” at Fjord, explained…