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Some people call Japan strange. I personally don’t buy that. Their customs are different than what everyone is used to, but that doesn’t necessarily make them a peculiar people. The Kyocera Honey Bee however, which has been out on the Japanese market since Q3 2011, is quite honestly the most offensive looking device on the…
Elisa is Finland’s largest wireless operator both in terms of customers and coverage. Since landing in Helsinki back in July 2007, they’ve happily been my operator of choice. Their consumer facing brand used to be called Kolumbus, but they rebranded it to Saunalahti a few years ago for reasons I still don’t understand. Anyway, if…
According to Google’s latest figures (last updated March 5, 2012), only 1.6% of all the Android devices out on the market right now are running the latest version of the OS, better known as Ice Cream Sandwich. In fact, we’re having a hard time trying to think of which devices are in that tiny 1.6%…
Samsung’s year old Galaxy S II has another model number that’s much less talked about: GT-i9100. The Galaxy Nexus, which has a larger 720p screen, Android Ice Cream Sandwich, and 4G LTE (in America), also has an unsexy model number: GT-i9250. Last month ago a device called the GT-i9300 showed up on Samsung’s website courtesy…
HTC announced three new smartphones at Mobile World Congress last month. The flagship One X with a 4.7 inch 720p display, the midrange One S with a 4.3 inch qHD display, and the “low end” One V with a 3.7 inch 800 x 480 pixel display. That last device, the One V, wasn’t exactly complete…
The first iPhone hit store shelves in June 2007. Since then each successive generation has received a bevy of updates, but there’s one thing that hasn’t changed, and that’s the form factor. For close to half a decade Apple has absolutely refused to budge from 3.5 inch displays. According to a report from Reuters that…
The FCC held a 66 minute meeting today, you can watch it here, were they discussed two very important proposals. First, they want to know how hard it would be to make AT&T’s and Verizon’s respective 4G LTE networks interoperable. Right now you can’t make a 4G LTE enabled AT&T device work on Verizon’s 4G…
Huawei, the Chinese handset vendor we love for the sole fact that they release rock solid budget Android devices, is trying to break into the high end space. Last month at Mobile World Congress they announced the Ascend D Quad. Now barring the ludicrously idiotic name aside, on paper it’s actually quite an interesting smartphone.…
Last month Sony showed off three Android smartphones at Mobile World Congress. All of them run version 2.3 of Google’s mobile OS, which is about 15 months old now. Sony says that those devices are going to get Ice Cream Sandwich, better known as Android 4.0, at some point in the future, but we know…
If you have an iPhone 4/4S or a Lumia 800 then chances are you’ve seen how ridiculously small of a SIM card it uses. That’s called a microSIM card. Back in May of last year, Apple said they wanted to make something even smaller, so they called up the folks who invent standards, in this…