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The first iPad was announced in January 2010 and then started shipping 5 months later in April. The second iPad was announced in March 2011 and shipped the very same month. Assuming Apple follows this 1 year cadence, we’re likely to see the third iPad be announced during Q2 of 2012. We’re expecting it to…
Micromax is a company that many of you haven’t heard of, which is a shame. They’re one of the leading suppliers of mobile phones in India. They’re Indian designed, Indian made, and they give people what bigger manufacturers have traditionally been sheepish to deliver because of fears that they’ll piss off the operators. Take dual…
Nokia is currently holding their annual Nokia World event in London right now, and while the important announcements were seen yesterday, things like 4 feature phones and 2 smartphones, both the first Nokias to run Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system, today the Finnish handset maker has surprised us by talking about the N9. Currently the…
Sprint’s Vice President of Network Development and Engineering, Iyad Tarazi, told attendees at the 4G World conference that during the first half of 2013 they’re going to launch an LTE-Advanced network. Said network will be using the 800 MHz band—so it’ll penetrate through walls easier and also have a greater range using fewer towers—and 20…
Sony Ericsson, the joint venture between one of the world’s largest consumer electronics companies and one of the leaders in both mobile and fixed infrastructure equipment, will cease to exist in early 2012. Today they’ve announced that Sony has decided to give Ericsson 1.05 billion Euros so that Sony Ericsson, or whatever it’ll end up…
Yesterday Nokia announced their first two smartphones running Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system, the Lumia 710 and the Lumia 800. They’re gorgeous, and they’re both fairly affordable, but unless you like Windows Phone … none of that really matters. While Mango, the current release of Windows Phone, fixes a lot of the issues that bothered…
Today Nokia announced a total of 6 new mobile phones. The last 2 to be unveiled, the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710, are sure to soak up the most attention, but it’s the 4 feature phones they showed off that impressed us the most because of how incredibly cheap they are. Let’s start with the…
The keynote at Nokia World has just wrapped up. A total of 6 devices were announced, with the final 2 being the Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710. As we predicted, they’re basically the same thing except for the display technology used, camera, and design. They both have a 1.4 GHz Qualcomm MSM8255 processor, 512…
Nokia’s set to formally announce their first Windows Phones in a little less than 12 hours in London. We’ve been predicting, for quite a while now, that we’d see three devices being unveiled. Thanks to series of series of leaks, we can now confirm that Nokia will launch the Nokia 710, 800, and 900. Let’s…
The mad scientists at Nokia’s Beta Labs have come up with a Google Street View clone called City Scene that has quite a few nifty features that the eggheads in Mountain View have yet to implement. Most impressive, similar to how Google will finish your query for you so you don’t need to type as…