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Motorola’s impossibly thin RAZR, known as the Droid RAZR in the United States, was recently disemboweled by our friends at iFixit. Taking it apart was no easy task, doing so effectively breaks the device, but once the Kevlar back came off … magic happens. Inside there’s a dual core 1.2 GHz processor made by Texas…
Microsoft’s next version of Windows Phone is going to be called Tango. Calling it a whole new version isn’t really fair though, because it’s really just a service pack. Remember when Windows Phone first launched in the fall of 2009? Less than half a year later Microsoft issued an update to the OS called “NoDo”…
Samsung, the world’s largest smartphone vendor in terms of volume and pretty soon the world’s largest phone vendor by volume if Nokia continues nose diving, is also a component supplier. Doesn’t matter what device you have, an Apple iPhone, an HTC Desire, a Nokia N97, there’s a strong chance that there’s a chip inside there…
Whenever Apple comes up with an idea, they patent it. Whether or not they’ll use that idea in a future product is a totally different question, but let’s pretend for a minute and say that the Apple patents that have been published today will eventually come to fruition. First up, there’s the “swipe then hold”…
When Apple released both iOS 5 and the new iPhone 4S last month, they probably weren’t anticipating that they’d be putting some of their customers through a world of pain when it comes to battery life. Many folks have been reporting over the past few weeks that their iPhone loses about 10% worth of charge…
Chances are you’ve never heard of Giesecke & Devrient, which is sad because without them the world wouldn’t work. They manufactured the mobile industry’s first commercial SIM card, they provide authentication services for government institutions, and get this, they even print money. If you’re using a device that relies on GSM technology, then in all…
Nokia’s decided to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their Research Center by releasing a concept video for a device that they’re calling GEM. It’s a phone that’s basically all screen. The whole thing. There is no bezel, no metal, no plastic, the whole handset is a touch screen surface. The Finnish handset maker thinks that…
Telefónica, one of the world’s largest operators, better known as O2 in some territories, doesn’t have too many nice things to say about Nokia’s first Windows Phones. The Lumia 710 and Lumia 800, which were introduced at Nokia World last month, are “too expensive” according to Simon Lee-Smith, European General Manager for Devices. He feels…
Apple’s baked some things into iOS 5 that they’ve yet to turn on, but thanks to the hacker community we now have access to two unannounced features: panorama mode in the camera application and an Android like keyboard that suggests the correct spelling of a word you’re having difficulty with. Panorama mode works exactly how…
Amazon’s 7 inch Kindle Fire, which starts shipping to customers in less than a week, is showing all the signs of becoming a holiday hit. According to the folks at DigiTimes, who cover the mobile industry and more importantly the factories that pump out all these new fangled gadgets that we just can’t get enough…