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You can tell a lot about a person by the domain name attached to their email address. If it ends with @aol.com, chances are the poor soul using that email account doesn’t know the difference between the power button on their laptop and their asshole. If it’s yahoo.com, run away fast because it’s an old…
A couple of weeks ago we brought you news of an upcoming and as yet to be launched LG device called the LU6200. We said it would ship with LTE support and a 4.5 inch 720p resolution screen. Today the LU6200 is no more, it now has an official name: the LG Optimus LTE. Inside…
Behold, the Sharp AQUOS 104SH, the world’s first smartphone to run Google’s next version of Android dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich. It’s launching in Japan on Softbank in “Spring of 2012”, meaning it might not be the first Ice Cream Sandwich device to hit the market, but hey, it’s at least the first one to officially…
In today’s economy it may seem a bit perverse to be talking about Vertu, Nokia’s premium brand that sells devices that can cost anywhere from $5,000 to $100,000+, but a leak just happened and it’s our duty to cover it. The Constellation T, which hasn’t been formally announced, has shown up on the Bluetooth SIG’s…
Wireless operators have proven themselves to be grossly incompetent when it comes to consumer facing services since the beginning of time. They’ve made more apps that only work on a limited number of devices, that only connect to their network, than we care to count. Many of us are begging operators to just become “dumb…
In just over 3 weeks Nokia is finally going to announce their first device, maybe even devices, that run Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system. It’s widely believed that the first Nokia Windows Phone, codenamed Sea Ray, will look exactly like the recently launched Nokia N9. One thing that’s been on everyone’s mind is how exactly…
There’s a dirty little secret that developers and handset makers don’t want to talk about. It’s something most people will have no difficulty wrapping their heads around: money talks. It’s widely expected that Nokia will at least one device running Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system at an upcoming event dubbed “Nokia World”. Now in order…
When Google announced Android back in November 2007, many thought that the introduction of a free open source operating system that would be maintained by one of the world’s most innovative companies would completely disrupt the wireless market. Any handset maker looking to trim some fat off their spending could just use Google’s software and…
It’s been discovered that recent HTC devices such as the EVO 3D, EVO 4G, Thunderbolt, and others, have a massive security bug that enables applications to read pretty much every piece of sensitive information on your device. HTC, in an effort to gather statistics on how people use their devices, installed a data logging application…
There’s a reason why every single device HTC has ever shipped has a Qualcomm chip inside; Qualcomm owns a small stake in HTC. With that in mind, the news that the HTC Sensation Z710t will pack an ST-Ericsson chip inside comes as a shock to those of us who obsess over these sort of details.…