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ARM, the company most folks recognize for their CPU cores that can be found in a majority of the system-on-chip platforms on the market, also makes graphics cores; better known as the GPU. Their current (as in shipping) flagship GPU, the Mali-400, is inside the Samsung Galaxy S II and is widely recognized for delivering…
AT&T has just announced that they’ll be offering their customers a new application called “AT&T Call International” that’s basically a rebranded voice over IP app powered by a company we never heard of called 8×8. You have to be an iPhone, Android, or BlackBerry user to be able to install the application, which pretty much…
Today NVIDIA is finally taking the wraps off their Tegra 3 system on chip and the gear-heads among us are going absolutely nuts. Now yes, shoving four cores on a chip that’s meant for smartphones and tablets will indeed offer some outstanding performance, but at what cost? The Tegra 3 was supposed to be manufactured…
Krish Prabhu, the CEO of AT&T Labs, made a statement at the LTE North America conference in Dallas, Texas that’ll likely get him in trouble. He spilled the beans about AT&T’s LTE-Advanced roadmap, saying that the operator will start supporting that technology at some point in 2013. When FierceWireless asked for confirmation from an AT&T…
Say what you want about iOS, Android, or Windows Phone, and how each of those platforms have their respective strengths and weaknesses. For those folks who simply want the best camera phone on the market, Nokia’s been targeting that audience since the N90 started shipping in Q2 2005 thanks to the combination of the company’s…
Apple has been getting a lot of heat over the years for their refusal to support Adobe’s Flash software. Companies such as Nokia, RIM, and even Google in the mean time have proudly been standing tall and shouting at the top of their lungs about how their platforms are technically superior because they can render…
Gavin Kim, former Vice President of Consumer and Enterprise Services at Samsung, has left his post to join Microsoft’s Windows Phone team where his new title is “General Manager”. What exactly does that entail? According to the Boy Genius Report, who scored an exclusive interview with Kim, his exact words are: “I will be responsible…
Microsoft’s got handset makers who make Android devices by the balls. Right now Samsung, HTC, Acer, and 7 others are paying the office software giant upwards of $5 for every phone or tablet they sell that utilizes Google’s code. To understand how big that is, consider this: Samsung and HTC, just those two companies, were…
Last week we got wind of a new wireless operator, technically virtual operator, that’s due to launch in the United States called “Republic Wireless”. Their claim to fame is that they’ll offer an unlimited everything plan (voice, texts, data) for just $19 per month, but you have have to use their specially customized devices. Well…
Calling a wireless operator a “dumb pipe” elicits the same sort of reaction from corporate executives that you’d expect if you started insulting the mother of a wide shouldered African American male who has done several years in the joint. What exactly is a “dumb pipe” anyway? Think of the company that provides you with…