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ZTE, the Chinese handset maker that many people confuse with Huawei, shipped 15 million smartphones in 2011. This year the company plans to more than double that to 35 million smartphones, at least that’s what Ryu Chienhao (pictured above) hopes will happen. He’s the guy in charge of ZTE’s mobile phone strategy. In an interview…
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is a great operating system, for the most part. When manufacturers start tweaking it to make their Android devices look different than other Android devices, then things start going to hell. Take HTC Sense for example. I know that some of you like it, but every time I see that…
Back in February of this year at Mobile World Congress, Huawei announced a device called the “Ascend D Quad”. Terribly name aside, it was positioned as being their flagship device. The standout feature? Huawei’s custom K3V2 chip. Said piece of silicon was supposed to blow our socks off with four of ARM’s Cortex A9 processors…
Samsung’s Galaxy S III, which was announced in late May and then began shipping in Europe in late June, is not only a successful product, according to Retuers it’s too damn popular! The South Korean handset vendor can’t make enough of their 4.8 inch flagship superphone. They’re going to fall about 2 million units short…
If the smartphone or tablet you own isn’t made by Apple, then there’s a 40% chance it has a Qualcomm chip inside. How did one company gain that much market share? Simple, they put everything a handset vendor needs to make a smartphone on a tightly integrated hardware platform dubbed “Snapdragon”. Whereas before a company…
Your operator, whoever they may be, are in the business of building a network and then selling you access to said network. They don’t like it when you do things that harm the quality of their precious network, things like streaming 720p movies on your brand spanking new Galaxy S III. They couldn’t care less…
Sahar Sabet (pictured above) is an American citizen, 19 years old, a student at the University of Georgia, and she owns an Apple iPhone and a MacBook Pro. She recently visited a local Apple Store with her uncle to buy an iPad as a gift for her cousin. While there she spoke to her uncle…
The bean counters at Nomura Holdings have issued a report that says Nokia will ship just 34 million Windows Phones in all of 2013. To put that number into some perspective, during the last three months of 2011 Apple sold more than 37 million iPhones. Now yes, 34 million Windows Phones in a year is…
Every year for the past five years Apple has introduced their interpretation of what a smartphone should be. The newest model, the iPhone 4S, was unveiled in early October 2011. We’re all expecting to see the iPhone 5 in the September/October time frame, which is right around the corner. What will Apple do to make…
Ben Rudolph, the Microsoft employee you see in all those “Smoked by Windows Phone” commercials, has just uploaded a video to the official Windows Phone Blog where he demos Windows Phone 7.8 on a Nokia Lumia 900. What exactly is Windows Phone 7.8? That depends on who you ask. Nokia and Microsoft fans, for reasons…