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Mobile World Congress, the largest wireless exhibition on the fact of the planet, is set to kick off in just two weeks. We’ll be there trying to cover the glut of smartphone and tablet announcements, of course, but thanks to Pocketnow our job may have just gotten a whole lot easier. Apparently they just got…
ZTE’s upcoming Tania Windows Phone is a smartphone we’ve known about since September of last year. For those of you who may not remember the device, it sports a 4.3 inch screen that pushes 800 x 480 pixels and has the specs of just about every other Windows Phone on the market: 1 GHz Qualcomm…
China, the world’s second largest economy comprised of over a billion people, hasn’t been very nice to Nokia. When the Finnish handset maker reported their Q4 2011 financial results late last month, they said that handset sales in China fell 33% year on year to less than 15 million units. What’s a phone maker to…
Ask someone, anyone, about which companies are synonymous with the word design, and you’d be hard pressed to hear a single person mention Acer. Things can change though, and the Acer CloudMobile might be the start of a new era for the company. It won the 2012 iF design award, which isn’t really saying much,…
We’re just two weeks away until Mobile World Congress kicks off, the largest mobile exhibition on the face of the planet. Everything that gets announced there usually ends up being talked about for the next 12 months, case in point the Samsung Galaxy S II. This year we’re sad to report that Samsung isn’t going…
Last week LG uploaded a video teaser of one of the devices that they’ll be announcing later this month at Mobile World Congress, the Optimus Vu. While they didn’t exactly show the thing off, they did unveil the Vu’s key selling point: It’s going to rock a 5 inch screen with a 4:3 aspect ratio,…
Google Wallet, the mobile payment service that uses near field communication (NFC) technology and hopes to one day replace the physical wallet that’s already in your pocket, apparently has a security flaw should you be one of the few people daring enough to have a rooted Android device. Now before you freak out and start…
Victor Saeijs (pictured above, center), Senior Vice President at Nokia Europe, told Swedish newspaper Dagens Industri that Nokia doesn’t have a backup plan should their marriage with Microsoft fall to produce any meaningful results. His exact quote: “Plan B is for Plan A is to succeed.” Victor goes on to say that the recently launched…
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) doles out wireless spectrum every few years using an auction process that anyone who has ever used eBay is already familiar with. Several of the FCC’s responsibilities are to make sure that the right people are allowed to join said auctions, that the wrong people are not allowed to participate,…
Late last year Amazon launched a 7 inch tablet called the “Kindle Fire” that runs a highly customized version of Android Gingerbread. We don’t know exactly how many Amazon has sold, but some analysts speculate that around 6 million Fire tablets ended up in consumer’s hands during the fourth quarter of last year. For the…