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We’re just two months away from Mobile World Congress, the undisputed mecca for everyone and everything that’s a part of the mobile industry. We’ll no doubt see manufacturers fighting over who has the thinnest device, the fastest device, and of course the sexiest, but this time there’s going to be another player joining the arena.…
Nokia’s official corporate blog has just announced that they’re no longer calling the latest version of the Symbian operating system “Symbian Belle”. It’s now been changed to “Nokia Belle”. If that isn’t a sign that Symbian is about to get thrown under the bus, then we don’t know what is. Also in Nokia’s announcement of…
If I wanted to I could leave my apartment with nothing but a 10 Euro bill in my pocket and go to the store across the street and buy a prepaid SIM card. No identification necessary, no registration, nothing. Not all countries are that liberal when it comes to national security. In Spain for example,…
LightSquared is an operator that’s having a tough time getting off the ground. Their problem? The spectrum they purchased with the intent of creating an LTE network sits way too close to the spectrum that GPS uses. Early tests of LightSquared’s network showed that GPS receivers within a 20 mile radius of a LightSquared cell…
There’s a reason we always recommend Nexus devices over all other Android smartphones. Not only do you get to enjoy Android the way Google intended it to look, but you’re also put first in line for updates to the platform. Case in point, owners of the Nexus S have slowly been getting an over the…
Canadian smartphone maker Research in Motion is in deep trouble. They haven’t had a hit device in their product portfolio since disco was at the top of the charts. The PlayBook, RIM’s response to the iPad, was such an abysmal failure that the company lost almost half a billion dollars to get it off the…
Andy Rubin (pictured above, left), the father of Google’s mobile operating system, just posted this status update on his Google+ account: “There are now over 700,000 Android devices activated every day.” At first glance it comes off as a hugely impressive number, that’s almost 5 million devices per week, but according to our estimates Android…
One would think that before Nokia started shipping their first Windows Phone, the Lumia 800, that a team of engineers would have been tasked with testing every little feature of the device to make sure that it was absolutely bullet proof. Turns out that such a scenario is nothing more than a fantasy. In late…
On October 19th when Google announced the next version of Android, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich, you could feel the panic that HTC, Motorola, Samsung, and others started experiencing. They’d now have to worry about porting Android 4.0 to their existing portfolio of devices, a process that can take months. Any subsequent Android device announced after…
No one in living in a rich Western country takes Huawei seriously because of their reputation for making cheap low end Android smartphones. All that’s about to change thanks to the Honor. Announced back in late August, we got some hands-on time with the Honor earlier this month and came away impressed. Make no mistake,…