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Chinese handset vendor ZTE doesn’t get a lot of respect from the mobile geek community because they make devices that are usually targeted towards the low end. Case in point: the ZTE Blade (V880) (pictured above), which has has been out for over a year now, shipped with a 600 MHz Qualcomm CPU, 512 MB…
Of the many reasons we recommend you pick up a Nexus device if you want to own an Android smartphone, the fact that you’re first in line to receive Google’s software updates is one of the most attractive propositions for those of you who want to stay on the bleeding edge of what’s happening in…
When Motorola announced the Droid RAZR for Verizon, many in the tech community joked that it was officially the world’s greatest smartphone, but only for the next few hours since Google and Samsung were scheduled to get on a stage in Hong Kong and announce what we now know as the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Comparing…
Horace Dediu, former Nokia employee turned Apple analyst, was one of the first people we can remember who suggested that the invention of unique and different input methods are directly responsible for the user interface revolutions that we’ve experienced over the past few decades. Apple changed things with the mouse, then with the mulitouch screen,…
Finland is a small country of just 5.3 million people, for the sake of reference: there are more folks living in the state of Wisconsin, but one of the many things that makes it special is that it’s home to the world’s largest mobile phone vendor by volume: Nokia. It’s something that many Finnish people…
Remember when Mozilla rocked, when they were the underdog, when they made the best browser on the market? What happened? The Mozilla Project, started in 1998, was all about making something that competed with Internet Explorer and pushed the limits of what could be done with a web browser. Never mind that Opera launched their…
Dual SIM devices don’t get a lot of love in North America, but they’re huge in many Asian countries and in several parts of Europe. Why should people limit themselves to just having one number? Better yet, if some operators offer better deals on texting and calling to subscribers who are on the same network,…
Forget about all the drama happening between AT&T, T-Mobile, and the FCC. Verizon just made things serious by announcing their intent to acquire 122 AWS spectrum licenses from SpectrumCo for $3.6 billion. Now who exactly is SpectrumCo? They’re a joint venture that’s 63.6% owned by Comcast, so they’ll get approximately $2.3 billion from the sale,…
Getting battery technology right is apparently harder than it seems. Earlier today we published an article about a Samsung Galaxy S II and a pair of iPhones that nearly exploded, but it looks like there’s more. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Mophie and Best Buy are issuing product recalls on roughly 40,000…
There’s a scandal brewing in the American wireless industry right now surrounding a company called Carrier IQ. All this hullabaloo began when an Android developer by the name of Trevor Eckhart discovered that there was something on his Android device logging just about damn near everything he was doing on his phone and then sending…