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One in four of the mobile phones shipped last quarter were smartphones. How does the wireless industry improve on that and eventually kill off the feature phone? Simple really, just make components cheaper. Today Qualcomm announced two new chips, the MSM8625 and MSM8225, that aim to make dual core processors a ubiquitous technology. They’re both…
Nokia announced two Windows Phones at their annual Nokia World event this past October, the Lumia 710 and the Lumia 800. The latter has been getting all the attention, partly because it was the first to ship, but also because of the controversy surrounding the Nokia N9. The N9 and Lumia 800 represent an inflection…
Last week we reported on the RJ63YC100, Sharp’s new 12 megapixel camera module for smartphones and tablets that features optical image stabilization and is less than 5.5 mm thick. It hasn’t been put inside any American or European smartphones yet, though it has shown up in the Sharp AQUOS SH-01D that’ll sadly never leave the…
Apple did something different when the announced the iPhone 4S. Instead of terminating sales of the previous generation model, the iPhone 4, they continued selling it at a discounted price. They didn’t stop there though, they also kept on selling the now 30 month old iPhone 3GS. All that choice means the iPhone has all…
The developers behind the Times of India Windows Phone application have noticed two Nokia devices using their software that have yet to be announced, the Nokia Lumia 900 and the Nokia Champagne. Now the Champagne we’ve already seen in logs before, back in early November, so now that we’re seeing it again in the logs…
Last month, in the mother of all public relations stunts, Microsoft put a 55 foot (16.76 meter) tall Windows Phone in New York City’s Herald Square. Now it’s Europe’s turn to experience the same type of over the top marketing: Nokia just erected a 32 foot (10 meter) tall Lumia 800 in Paris, France on…
When Apple announced the first iPad back in January 2010, people called it nothing more than a giant iPod touch for rich white people with too much time on their hands and a mild case of internet addiction. When it hit store shelves a few months later in April, Apple managed to move over 3…
Budget smartphones, not the sexiest topic of discussion, but important none the less as we march towards the death of the feature phone and the rise of the number of people who have access to the internet. Right now you can buy an Android smartphone for between $100 and $150 that’s equivalent in specs to…
This summer Nokia announced the latest version of the Symbian operating system, Belle, along with the first three devices to support it; the 600, 700, and 701. The latter two are now out in a number of markets, and the 600 sadly got cancelled, but what’s important is that people who have played with Belle…
Last month we reported that Nokia was going to issues a pair of software updates to address the battery life issues that some Lumia 800 users were experiencing. Now when we reviewed the device we didn’t experience such issues, but there are plenty of people who have spoken out in Nokia’s support forum, claiming that…