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Motorla doesn’t get a whole lot of love these days, partially due to the fact that people are waiting to see what Google is going to do with them assuming that Google gets approval to gobble up the fledging handset vendor. With so many awesome devices out on the market from the likes of Apple,…
Whenever Apple posts a beta of of software that they’re working on, they usually try their best to scrub any clues as to products that are yet to be released. They don’t always succeed though in hiding things such as evidence that there’s a successor to products already out on the market. That being said,…
If you’re in Las Vegas this week, chances are you’re there to attend the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show. It’s the largest tech show in North America and it’s an event that separates the men from the boys in terms of who can best cover the insane amount of products being announced seemingly every 15 seconds.…
It may seem hard to believe, but one year ago at CES 2011 ASUS showed off the first generation of a new type of Android tablet that they dubbed the “Transformer”. By itself the Transformer wasn’t anything special, just another Android tablet running Honeycomb, but when it was paired with a keyboard dock it transformed…
It’s just been revealed that back in November of last year Nokia purchased a Norwegian software company called “Smarterphone”. The details of the transaction aren’t yet available, and there isn’t even a press release on Nokia’s website. The little information we do have comes from Smarterphone’s website. Egil Kvaleberg, CEO of Smarterphone, says: “Globally, there…
HTC has just announced that for the first time in 2 years they’ve posted a profit decline. Income during Q4 2011 dropped to $364 million, down 26% from the same quarter a year prior. Worse yet, operating margins hit a 3 year low, it’s now just 12.8%. How many devices did HTC ship during the…
Two years ago Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad to the world and since then we’ve seen Google fumble the ball with Android Honeycomb, Microsoft radically rethink the PC user interface with Windows 8, and Amazon compete on price by introducing the $199 Kindle Fire. With all that being said, Apple is set to change the…
Three weeks ago T-Mobile and Nokia announced that the Lumia 710 would become the first Windows Phone from the Finnish handset maker to be sold in the United States. It hits the market next Wednesday (January 11th) and it’s going to set you back just $50 with a new 2 year contract. To be perfectly…
Later this month every handset manufacturer is going to post their Q4 2011 financial results. We’ll finally find out how many iPhones Apple sold, how many Windows Phones Nokia sold, how deep in shit RIM is, and more. Companies usually don’t give hints as to what sorts of numbers they’re going to reveal, but Samsung…
We’re barely a week into 2012 and rumors are already resurfacing that at some point over the next 12 months Nokia will sell their smartphone unit to Microsoft. We can’t remember the first time such rumors appeared, but we do know the last time we covered this story. Just a couple of weeks ago Danske…