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Mobile phones have evolved throughout the years to do more than just let you ring someone up from anywhere you can get coverage. Text messaging came in the 90s, as did Bluetooth, then at the turn of the century we saw cameras being added, after that WiFi, and during the last half decade we’ve seen…
On August 22nd a little slip of paper slipped through my mail slot notifying me that I had a package waiting to be picked up. I knew exactly what it was, the 4G LTE USB modem that I requested to trial from DNA Finland. Watching my American colleagues play with Verizon’s LTE network since December…
Samsung has just announced their latest Exynos processor, the 4212. Boring name aside, this this is, to quote Steve Jobs, “a screamer”. Clocked at 1.5 GHz, it’s obviously faster than the 1.2 Ghz 4210 that’s found inside the Galaxy S II, but what makes the 4212 special is that it’s build using a 32 nanometer…
Nokia just issued a press release hilariously titled “Nokia continues to align its workforce and operations“. They waste the first 9 paragraphs patting themselves on the back for the new strategy they’re taking now that Stephen Elop is at the helm before finally getting to the point. Nokia’s factory in Romania will be shut down…
According to “people familiar with the matter”, which is hands down the fanciest way to describe an anonymous tipster, Nokia is in the process of developing a brand spanking new mobile operating system called Meltemi. The project is being led by Mary McDowell, Head of Nokia Mobile Phones, it’ll be based on Linux, and it’s…
Amazon announced several new devices today, ranging from a $79 eBook reader that uses electronic ink to a $199 tablet with a 7 inch IPS display called the Fire. One thing they talked about that immediately grabbed my attention was the web browser that comes preinstalled on Fire. It’s called Silk and it’s supposed to…
Microsoft and Samsung have announced that they’re going to cross-license their patent portfolios. Under the terms of the agreement, Samsung will pay Microsoft money for every device they sell that runs Google’s Android operating system. Also, and potentially the biggest bit of news, “the companies agreed to cooperate in the development and marketing of Windows…
Oh boy, here we go again. Every year we write about companies tinkering around with Linux in order to provide the market with an “alternative” open operating system that anyone can use. Nokia kicked things off with their tablet like devices that ran an operating system called Maemo. Intel was also working on their own…
Carl Icahn is a company’s worst nightmare. He buys up enough shares of your company to get himself a seat on the board, he then convinces the board that they need to just give up and break the company apart, and then when all is said and done he walks away with more money than…
Motorola’s Droid Bionic, announced back in January at the Consumer Electronic Show and then released 8 months later, is an amazing device, but it’ll quickly be forgotten once the next generation of Android superphones come out in late Q4 2011 and 1H 2012. That being said, the Bionic does bring something to the table that…