Apple’s going to come out with two new devices this year that will make huge waves in the mobile industry. One of them is the third generation iPad, the other is the sixth generation iPhone. Traditionally whatever chip Apple put inside the iPad would eventually end up in the iPhone. Case in point, the A5…
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro: The same S4 we’ll soon know and love, but with an insane GPU
Qualcomm is going to introduce a new Snapdragon platform this year called S4. We’ve already seen a handful of devices announced that’ll take advantage of it, most notably the HTC One X for AT&T and the the HTC One S for the global market. According to some early benchmarks done on a development board, the…
Nokia Asha 202, 203, and 302: Say hello to Nokia’s latest feature phones
So we’ve already seen the Nokia Lumia 610, a budget sub 200 EUR Windows Phone, and the Nokia PureView 808, a gigantic 41 megapixel camera phone, but what about the low end of the market? Today Nokia announced three feature phones that all come in at under 100 EUR. Two of those devices, the Asha…
Nokia Lumia 610: The first device running Windows Phone Tango, just 190 EUR
Nokia just announced the Lumia 610, their cheapest Windows Phone to date. If it looks familiar, then you’re right. It has the same design as the 18 month old Nokia C7, which was recycled last summer to become the 701, but whereas both those devices were made out of metal, the Lumia 610 is all…
Nokia 808 PureView: How does a 5 megapixel camera become a 41 megapixel camera?
Nokia just announced a new Symbian device called the 808 PureView. The specification that immediately stands out is the camera, which comes in at 41 megapixels. How exactly is that possible and is that number real or the result of a marketing department gone batshit insane? Luckily for us Nokia has a dedicated website for…
HTC to release new Windows Phones in conjunction with the launch of Windows Phone Apollo
HTC, who yesterday announced three new Android handsets, hasn’t exactly shown Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system a lot of love. Now yes, the Radar 4G is a great little smartphone, and the upcoming Titan II looks to be a hell of a beast, but for every Windows Phone these guys pump out there seems to…
Qualcomm chips powered 4 out of every 10 non-Apple phones and tablets sold in 2011
Step into my shoes for a second. There are 2,049 unread emails in my inbox and an additional 837 unread “News Tips” that stare at me every time I start my work day. Every company behind every component that makes up a smartphone, every piece of infrastructure gear needed to make a network run, every…
Samsung sales of the Galaxy S II top 20 million units in just 10 months
Samsung’s just issued a press release announcing that they’ve sold over 20 million Galaxy S II smartphones since launching the device in April. The things is, while the Galaxy S II did actually go on sale in April, it was on the 29th and in just one country: South Korea. In May the GSII hit…
T-Mobile USA announces plans to launch a 4G LTE network in 2013
T-Mobile USA has just posted their Q4 2012 finical results. We’re not going to bore you with all the details, except to say that these guys lost over 800,000 subscribers and they’re blaming the iPhone for that. They really are the last operator on the face of the planet to not offer their subscribers Apple’s…
Reuters confirms that Nokia will launch two Windows Phones on Monday
According to a recently published Reuters report, Nokia will announce two Windows Phones on Monday, the 27th of February, otherwise known as the first day of Mobile World Congress. The first device will be a global variant of the Lumia 900 (pictured below, left) that Nokia announced at the Consumer Electronics Show last month. The…