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Chinese handset vendor ZTE has a reputation for making low cost devices. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. In fact, we commend them for enabling millions of people experience the internet for the first time thanks to their vast portfolio budget Android smartphones. Lixin Cheng, President of ZTE North America, hopes to change the…
Traveling is great. You get to see new things, meet new people, try food you might have otherwise never even known existed, but there’s a downside to all that. And no, we’re not talking about being unfortunate enough to be stuck between a morbidly obese man and a screaming baby during a 6 hour flight.…
The BBC has just announced that they’ve expanded support for their global BBC iPlayer application to owners of the iPhone and iPod touch. Until now you had to have an iPad to use iPlayer outside the UK, so this is big news for expats or for those who simply want access to high quality content…
Amazon’s 7 inch Android tablet that isn’t an Android tablet, the Kindle Fire, has been out in the United States for a few weeks now. Sadly, for everyone else on the planet it isn’t. According to the folks at Know Your Mobile, that’s soon going to change, at least for the UK. They say that…
The Motorola Droid RAZR for Verizon Wireless is arguably one of the prettiest smartphones on the market right now. If it weren’t for the terrible AMOLED screen and the questionable battery life, then this writer would have a hard time resisting the urge to pick one up this holiday shopping season. So last month when…
Intel and Micron have just announced an industry first. Together they’ve created a 128 gigabit NAND chip made using a 20 nanometer process. What exactly does that mean? The memory technology used in smartphones, tablets, and solid state hard drives, and we’re talking about storage here, not random access memory or RAM, depends on NAND…
For all the flack we give Nokia about being noncompetitive in the smartphone space, mainly for being late to the touch screen game and because they alienated so many people with the Nokia N97 back in 2009, the Finnish handset maker is surprisingly ahead of everyone else when it comes to near field communications (NFC)…
Virgin Mobile, the American prepaid operator that offers unlimited everything plans for just $55 per month, will soon introduce a pair of Android smartphones to the market according to PocketNow. They say that the two devices in question are manufactured by Chinese handset vendor ZTE and will be known as the Chaser and the Venture.…
Back in October Sony announced that they were going to purchase Ericsson’s half of the decade old joint venture Sony Ericsson. We didn’t really get a lot of details about what the future of the company would be, other than that Sony would keep on making mobile phones. Now thanks to Kristian Tear, an executive…
Remember when Google made a whole bunch of noise about their new mobile payments service and how they were going to render your old leather bifold absolutely useless? That never really happened. It’s been nearly 3 months since Google unveiled Google Wallet and it still only ships on one device (the Nexus S), is still…