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Niklas Savander, Executive Vice President at Nokia, recently gave an interview to the folks at Pocket-lint where he told them that the Finnish handset maker needs to make some seriously low end smartphones if they have any chance of competing with Google’s Android ecosystem. His exact words: “We have a lot riding on the fact…
Samsung has just announced yet another Galaxy device, the Galaxy Pocket. It’s the exact opposite of the massive 5.3 inch Galaxy Note. With the Pocket you’re looking at a 2.8 inch screen that pushes the now ancient resolution of 320 x 240 pixels, it has a 2 megapixel fixed focus camera, runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread…
Let’s set the scene: June 23, 2007, the first generation iPhone has been out for less than a month, Nokia issues a press release announcing that they’re going to blow an undisclosed amount of money (rumored to be $97 million) on a web service no one has ever heard of: Twango. See, Nokia isn’t a…
There’s a tiny company in Norway that’ll forever remain in my heart, Opera Software. Back in August 2005 they released a beta version of Opera Mini, a browser that let anyone with a feature phone surf the internet. What made this possible was server-side rendering technology. Instead of a device grabbing all the HTML, JavaScript,…
The LG Optimus, arguably the most forgettable device at Mobile World Congress, is going on sale today in South Korea. It’s going to cost 999,900 won, which comes out to roughly $885. That’ll get you a 4:3 aspect ratio 5 inch display that pushes 1024 x 768 pixels, a dual core 1.5 GHz Snapdragon processor…
Samsung’s ridiculously large 5.3 inch Galaxy Note has thus far been sold in just two different colors: classy black, and gorgeous white. Today at CeBIT, which is kind of like the European version of the Consumer Electronics Show, the folks at Engadget spotted a pink Galaxy Note dummy unit. When they asked Samsung whether or…
Android applications hosted by Google and available in the Android Market normally have to be a maximum of 50 MB in size. Today that changes … kind of. The APK file you upload to the Android Market still has to be 50 MB in size, but now Google is giving developers 4 GB worth (in…
TeliaSonera was the first operator in the world to launch a 4G LTE network. We’re talking December 2009 here, a full year before Verizon turned on their 4G LTE network. Now most people accessing said ridiculously high speed network have thus far been doing it via USB modems, but that’s just officially changed. TeliaSonera has…
Windows Phone fragmentation, for all intents and purposes, doesn’t exist. If you bought the first Windows Phones to roll off an assembly line back in 2010, then chances are you’re running the latest version of the OS. This will change by the time we reach the fourth quarter of this year. Let’s start with Tango,…
Google has something called the Nexus program whereby every year they partner up with a hardware maker and release one device that runs Android the way Google thinks Android should be run. It started with the Nexus One, then there was the Nexus S, and now we have the recently launched Galaxy Nexus. Rumor has…