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Kevin Systrom, co-founder of Instagram, announced something at SXSW yesterday that many of you guys have been waiting for since … hell, since the beginning of time. Instagram is finally coming to Android. When? There’s no exact date, all we know is that it’s going to be “very soon”. Here’s where things get interesting though.…
After years and years of teasing press folks at various trade shows, Intel is finally going to enter the mobile space in 2012. They’re going to do it with Medfield, which is just a fancy way of saying a mobile platform that uses the Intel Atom Z2460 CPU, PowerVR SGX 540 GPU, and the XMM…
Sony Ericsson, the company that’s now known as just plain Sony, can’t keep their prototypes from escaping their labs apparently. A device that’s codenamed “Julie” has not only been snuck out of Sony’s offices, but someone was actually dumb enough to put it on eBay. The auction has already been pulled, of course, but it…
Way back in November of last year, Paul Amsellem, the former Head of Nokia France, said that the Finnish handset maker would be releasing a Windows 8 tablet in June 2012. Seems that he was off by a quarter if this latest rumor from DigiTimes is to be believed. Our favorite Taiwanese rumor site says:…
There are two flavors of 4G LTE: FDD (frequency division duplex) and TDD (time division duplex). Without getting too technical, let’s just say that the former makes a lot more sense for operators who are already running a GSM network, whereas the latter isn’t expected to gain any widespread adoption outside China. Now Sprint entered…
On December 13, 2011, Nokia announced the launch of “Nokia Money” in India. The service was created so that people living in rural parts of the country could conduct financial transactions digitally instead of using hard currency. Today, one day before turning three months old, ZDNet reports that the service will be shut down. Why?…
One thing that Apple didn’t talk about when they announced the new iPad earlier this week was just how insane of a battery it has inside. The iPad 2 has a 6,944 mAh battery and goes for about 10 hours. The new iPad has a 11,666 mAh battery, which is roughly 70% larger, yet still…
Do you honestly think that the iPhone you’re buying for $199 is actually $199? No, you’re simply paying the real $650+ price tag over the course of the next two years that you’re locked to your operator. That’s the American wireless industry for you. Now to be fair, many countries also work this way, but…
Last year, on the 11th of February to be precise, Nokia’s CEO, Stephen Elop, got up on a stage in London and told the world that the Finnish handset maker was going to throw Symbian under the bus, kill off MeeGo, and bet the future on Microsoft’s Windows Phone. It’s been almost 13 months since…
Another day another rumor about this elusive 7 inch Android tablet from Google that we’ve been hearing about for months. For those who need a quick refresher: Google likes to partner with a company every year and release a device that runs Android completely unmodified. Said device is called the Nexus. The first Nexus was…