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Mid October 2011 is when we first heard rumblings that Apple was working on a 7.85 inch iPad. The report came from the Taiwanese news agency Economic Daily News, who said suppliers have sent Apple 7.85 inch LCD panels to play around with. Two months later, almost to the exact day, DigiTimes said the iPad…
For as long as we can remember we’ve been extremely envious of the Japanese. Their phones, despite being nothing more than glorified feature phones, have some of the most ridiculous hardware specifications on the market. Recently that’s changed however, and handsets from the likes of Apple and Samsung have all but closed that spec gap,…
LG was the first handset vendor to announce a dual core Android smartphone way back in December 2010, the Optimus 2X. Here we are, over a year later, and they’re now the first phone manufacturer to announce a quad core Android smartphone, the Optimus 4X HD. Now the Optimus 2X may have been the first…
The HTC One V that launched earlier this week, it’s going to come to three American operators according to an HTC spokesperson who spoke to PhoneScoop. Metro PCS, U.S. Cellular, and Virgin Mobile will carry HTC’s budget Android device, though we have no idea when it’ll launch, nor how much it’ll cost. Here’s what we…
Microsoft’s confirmed that they’re taking Windows Phone downmarket with Tango, and this week we saw the first handset to be announced running said OS: Nokia’s Lumia 610. But there’s another device running Tango that didn’t get a lot of attention, the ZTE Orbit. Now before you get confused about Tango, we should say that there…
Nokia Siemens Networks, who isn’t exactly a market leader in terms of the amount of revenues involved in the mobile infrastructure game, is widely respected as being a leader when it comes to research and development. They just demonstrated a 1.4 gigabit per second connection using LTE-Advanced and 100 MHz worth of spectrum. As impressive…
The second quarter of this year is going to be ridiculously exciting because we’re finally going to see mobile phones come out with something other than Qualcomm’s S3 Snapdragon or Samsung’s now ancient 45 nanometer Exynos chips. Qualcomm will be launching their S4 Snapdragon, which is built on a new 28 nanometer process, has a…
Google will soon swallow up Motorola. The search giant says it’s all about patents, but I, and pretty much every other member of the tech press, thinks they’re lying. Andy Rubin, the father of Android, recently gave an interview at Mobile World Congress where he discussed the issue. The guys at The Verge were in…
Last quarter (Q4 2011) something amazing happened, smartphone sales overtook PC sales for the first time. That’s great news if you’re Apple or Samsung, but horrible if you’re Intel. The chip company we all know and love for the processors that are currently inside our laptops has failed, year after year, to penetrate the mobile…
Samsung created the ridiculously huge smartphone category with the 5.3 inch Galaxy Note, and it looks like competitors are quick to catch up. LG has the 5 inch Vu, Viewsonic has the ViewPhone 5e, and now it’s Panasonic’s turn to announce their difficult to hold creation: the Eluga Power. It’s going to come with a…