Breaking news, information, and analysis on the latest mobile phones and mobile technology
Several weeks before Nokia held their anual Nokia World event in London last month, we published a piece outlining the devices we thought would be announced. Now forgetting about the feature phones for a second, we absolutely nailed the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710, but there was one device, the Lumia 900, that never appeared.…
Qualcomm’s just announced 8 new processors that use their brand new Krait core. More importantly, they said that devices “based on Snapdragon S4 processors are expected to appear in early 2012.” So what exactly is Krait and what on earth is an S4? Krait is the name of Qualcomm’s new application processor. Have you heard…
At a Nokia developer event that took place earlier this week in Mexico, one of the presenters had a slide up that revealed the next two versions of Symbian and what makes them standout. Similar to how Google names Android versions by using dessert names in alphabetical order (Donut, Eclair, Froyo, etc.), Nokia is using…
Thanks to a mistake by Sprint’s social media department, if they even have such a thing, a video briefly appeared on YouTube showing off a device called the “Sprint Express”. Luckily for us the folks from The Verge were able to snap a screenshot before the video was made private, but to be honest there’s…
Glenn Lurie (pictured right), Head of AT&T’s Tablet Unit, spoke today at a conference in Barcelona organized by Morgan Stanley. He confirmed that his company is currently talking to Nokia about releasing Windows Phone devices in North America, but that he’s got nothing specific to announce. Does this really come as a surprise to anyone?…
With a little less than 90 days until the start of 2012, we already know what sort of specs are going to become the norm for high end smartphones. We’re talking 720p screens, dual core processors, NFC, LTE, Bluetooth 4.0, all that is considered essential if you want to get a seat at the flagship…
ZTE is a Chinese company that’s in the exact same boat Huawei was in just a few short years ago, and that HTC was in going as far back as the late 1990s. All three of these Asian companies make mobile phones, but their first customers weren’t people, they were the corporations we so lovingly…
John Stanton is a man who knows a thing or two about wireless networks. He was the first employee at McCaw Cellular, the operator that eventually became AT&T Mobility. He left the company before that transition occurred to start Western Wireless, which eventually grew to be called Voicestream, which was then purchased by Deutsche Telekom,…
We’ve always known that mobile payments would some day come to mobile devices and would shortly thereafter become the dominant form of payment, the question has been when? Today the GSMA, the folks responsible for making sure that the GSM standard works and is interoperable among the roughly 800 operators around the world using the…
French website Mon Windows Phone, which translates to My Windows Phone, recently posted snippets from an article in a local newspaper that they failed to name Les Echos. Said article has several quotes from Paul Amsellem, Head of Nokia France, that confirm what many of us have been feeling ever since we saw Nokia unveil…