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Two new iPad 3 rumors sprang up over the weekend, rumors which we wish would stop already since we’ll know everything there is to know about the iPad 3 in less than a month. Anyway, the first rumor is from a Chinese website called WeiPhone, which managed to get a photo of what’s supposedly going…
Samsung’s flagship device has always been the Galaxy. Nokia has the Lumia 800/900, HTC has the Sensation/Incredible, and Apple has the iPhone. But what about Motorola? Last year at the Consumer Electronics show they announced the Atrix, their first dual core smartphone. Roughly 10 months later it was replaced by the Atrix 2, which didn’t…
Back in May 2010 we reported that the European Commission came to the decision that operators across the continent should use the 800 MHz band to provide mobile broadband. It took almost two years, but the European Commission is now saying that countries are required to open up the 800 MHz band by January 1,…
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, which was mentioned at Google I/O in May 2011, and then formally announced in mid October along with the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, has been on the market for exactly two months now. Is it a little soon then to start talking about Android 5.0? Probably, but that’s the industry we’re…
For the longest time we’ve been hearing that Microsoft is going to release an update to Windows Phone called Tango that would enable handset vendors to create budget smartphones. We didn’t know exactly how Microsoft was planning to do that, but thanks to a leak on the Russian site WP7Forum.ru we now have an extensive…
Back in May 2011 NVIDIA purchased Icera for $367 million. Icera is a company that specializes in cellular modems, and they have roughly 550 patents to backup that claim. When the announcement was made we said that the alarm bells at Qualcomm’s offices probably started ringing. Half of all Android smartphones on the market run…
We’re happy to announce that nearly four months after we first reported Sony’s intent to purchase Ericsson’s half of Sony Ericsson for a hair over 1 billion Euros the deal is now officially done. Sony Ericsson will be renamed Sony Mobile Communications, the company will have offices in Beijing, Lund, Silicon Valley, and Tokyo, it…
Cisco, the guys who make the infrastructure equipment that delivered all the illegal torrents currently sitting on your hard drive, just published their annual “Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update“. It’s something they like to put out there to freak ISPs and operators out so that they spend more money expanding their network. There are…
Remember the LG Optimus 3D? It was announced at Mobile World Congress 2011, then hit store shelves five months later in July. No matter how hard you tried, you couldn’t avoid the amount of hype that thing got from the press. Wow, dual core processor, and oh my god, two cameras on the back, and…
South Korea, the country that Samsung and LG call home, apparently doesn’t care about either of those two companies’ Android tablets. According to The Korea Herald, sales of Apple’s iPad recently surpassed 1 million units, which to put into some perspective, means Apple owns somewhere between 70% to 80% of the tablet market in that…