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Can’t wait to get your hands on a white iPhone 4? Tired of using that tacky white iPhone kit which is obviously a cheap Chinese cover-up? While we can’t announce the availability of this highly desirable handset just yet, we can point you to the next best thing- a four minute unboxing video that showcases the…
Qualcomm is rumored to be investing upwards of $2 billion into a factory located at the Longtan site in the Central Taiwan Science Park that will mass produce 5.7 inch Mirasol displays beginning as early as 2012 according to sources that have spoken to Digitimes. Mirasol technology, which we’ve covered in the past, shares the…
Known for its wide array of feature phones, LG has been struggling to tap into the exploding smartphone market. While it has several introductory android handsets that have been well regarded, it has yet to produce a blockbuster hit to compete with the DROIDs of the world. All of that may be changing with LG’s new…
After many delays, which Qualcomm didn’t even mention until yesterday, the Snapdragon QSD8672 is officially going to start shipping next quarter and is expected to be in devices starting as early as Christmas, but more realistically Q1 2011, according to Computer World. The QSD8672 is made on a 45 nanometer process and features 2 cores,…
The amorphous metal alloys developed by Liquidmetal Technologies may be used in the design and development of Apple’s next generation wireless antenna, according to Liquidmetal founder Dr. Atakan Peker. In an interview with Cult of Mac, Dr. Peker notes that the properties of Liquidmetal make is an excellent substrate for usage as an antenna and could be one of…
The Samsung Galaxy S and its variants are plagued with a troubling GPS problem that produces inaccurate GPS readings. Not only is the internal GPS slow to get a satellite lock, when a lock is finally obtained, the location information reported to the handset is often streets, sometimes even towns away from your physical location.…
There was a bunch of news this week that could have long-reaching consequences and no story was bigger than the Google and Verizon putting forth a joint policy statement regarding net neutrality. This was also a big week for Android with the release of some high-profile devices but Google also faces a huge lawsuit over…
Day one of the Verizon DROID 2and the handset has already been dissected by the folks at iFixit. The traditional teardown analysis reveals little surprises regarding the DROID 2. As expected, the Verizon DROID 2 is almost identical to the original DROID; so identical that it is difficult to tell the two handsets apart when they have been broken down…
That little green robot has proven that it can do some amazing things and now we’re getting word that Android has propelled HTC into the top ten mobile phone makers around the world. This information comes from the Gartner report we covered earlier, but I thought it was interesting to spotlight how far HTC has…
It looks like the folks over at Android Spin got a few spy shots of an upcoming Dell Android smartphone called the Blaze and you’ll be sad to know that it looks to be running Android 1.5. Like the upcoming Dell Streak, the company seems content at releasing devices with the older version of the…