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Nokia Siemens Networks, one of the world’s largest providers of the infrastructure equipment that enables our mobile phones to actually connect to the internet and do useful things, has just secured a 1.2 billion Euro loan according to Retuers. The goal was to raise 1.5 billion Euro, but “due to market turmoil”, which is a…
Let’s be honest, Windows Phone isn’t exactly a success. Everyone in the media says that it has incredible potential, that it’s beautiful, and that it’s the freshest take on a mobile smartphone operating system they’ve ever seen, but has that praise translated into actual sales? No. It hasn’t. Anyone remember the Palm Pre? Anyway, for…
Earlier this month at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas we saw Nokia unveil their first “real Windows Phone” for the U.S. market, the Lumia 900. It’s basically the Lumia 800, but with a larger 4.3 inch screen, front facing camera, and AT&T 4G LTE connectivity. Those of us living on the other side…
Nokia may not be doing so hot in the smartphone market, but when it comes to feature phones they’re still kicking ass and taking names. The Finnish handset vendor has just announced that they’ve sold 1.5 billion feature phones running their proprietary S40 operating system. The 1.5 billionth device was purchased by Mayara Rodrigues, age…
Late last month we reported on a rumor that said Nokia was going to introduce two new color variants of the Lumia 800. The French website MonWindowsPhone said that white and yellow will soon join the existing color choices: black, cyan (blue), and magenta (pink). What they failed to say was when those color variants…
Anderson Teixeira used to be the President of Sony Ericsson’s U.S. division until very recently. According to 9to5Mac his new role is Head of Apple’s Latin American division. What’s his C.V. like? Well, he’s from Brazil, has been with Sony Ericsson since the company launched in 2001, he started his career as head of Sony…
Consumer Intelligence Research Partners collected survey responses from 6,316 people who purchased an iPhone in the U.S. during the last quarter of last year, specifically October 14th (the launch of the iPhone 4S) to the end of the year. They then did an analysis on the responses of 365 of those people and what they…
Arguably one of the best features of Google’s Android mobile operating system is the ability to swipe down from the top of the screen and see a list of notifications that require your attention. Missed calls, missed texts, someone liking your latest Facebook status update, that sort of thing. It’s such a handy little gesture…
Chinese handset vendor Huawei unveiled a ridiculously thin smartphone at CES earlier this month that we absolutely fell in love with, the Ascend P1 S. At just 6.68 mm thick it earned itself the title of the world’s thinnest smartphone. Despite the svelte proportions, Huawei managed to stick a dual core 1.5 GHz processor inside…
Earlier this month at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas we saw Nokia unveil their first high end Windows Phone device for the U.S. market, the Lumia 900. On the surface it’s pretty much exactly what we were expecting it to be, nothing more than a blown up Lumia 800. Under the hood there’s…