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When it comes to business, relationships matter. Companies like to own you, the consumer, and they’ll figure out ways on how to make sure that the bonds they make are as difficult to break as the law allows. Why do you think the smartphones operators sell are locked to their network? Should you want to…
Some folks who’ve either upgraded their iPhone to the latest version of iOS or picked up the new iPhone 4S are feeling the pain of having a battery that dies before their work day is over. While this writer hasn’t had such issues, there are plenty of complaints surfacing on the internets that Apple thought…
When you’re in the market for a high end smartphone, whether it costs $600, $650, or even $700 doesn’t really matter. For people in emerging economies who go for devices in Nokia’s low to mid rang portfolio however, every dollar, some might say even every cent, counts. When Nokia launched the 600 at the end…
Our Norwegian friends at Opera Software [Disclosure: Photo above from an event last month that they invited me to and paid for both my flight and hotel] have just released a new version of Opera Mini for devices that run Symbian, Java applications, the Apple iPhone, and RIM’s BlackBerry lineup. With version 6.5 the most…
How long as Apple been doing the whole glossy glass, black border, brushed metal look? Ever since the Cupertino, California based company launched the aluminum PowerBook G4 in 2003, just about every Apple product released thereafter has looked remarkably similar. We don’t wish to say that as an insult, good design doesn’t age, but according…
It’s pretty much a given that Verizon Wireless will announce the HTC Rezound tomorrow, a device we’ve been tracking for far too long. What makes it special is that it’s supposed to come with a 4.3 inch 720p resolution screen, dual core 1.5 GHz processor, 1 GB of RAM, 4G LTE access, and a pair…
Does anyone remember the Motorola XOOM? It was the world’s first Android Honeycomb tablet, announced and shipped in Q1 of this year. It was so frighteningly bad that we wouldn’t even recommend it to our worst enemies. Part of that is due to Motorola, who made the XOOM expensive, thick, heavy, and out of materials…
When Google announced their intent to purchase Motorola Mobility on August 15th for $12.5 billion, the entire industry ground to a halt and we all just sort of looked at each other, asking if what just happened actually happened? Google says it’s all about patents, that they’d never enter the hardware business, but let’s be…
Back in February of this year we reported on a Reuters story that quoted the CEO of ST-Ericsson (pictured above) as saying that the company is ready for Nokia whenever they want to make a Windows Phone. A few months later, in May, the CEO of STMicroelectronics told Forbes in an interview that Nokia will…
Back in 2009 Novatel Wireless introduced a novel piece of kit called the MiFi. Put simply, it connects to an operator’s wireless network and then emits a WiFi signal. Most consumer electronic companies don’t want to deal with the complexities of putting a cellular radio inside their device, much less having to get their gear…