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RIM suffered a setback in a contract dispute with Nokia. According to a Reuters report, a Swedish arbitrator said “”RIM was in breach of contract and is not entitled to manufacture or sell WLAN products without first agreeing royalties with Nokia.” These WLAN-enabled products include BlackBerry handsets and the PlayBook tablet. RIM could face a…
As expected, Meizu officially unveiled its new smartphone MX2 in China. The device keeps its impressive (read “borrowed”) look while the specs are better than ever. The Meizu MX2 sports a rather unusual 4.4-inch screen with resolution of 1280×800 pixels and a narrow 3.15 mm bezel. In addition, it also comes with a quad-core processor…
Two weeks ago we’ve mentioned that US Cellular will soon get a new Samsung Galaxy device – Axiom. And now it’s available from their website with carrier and Samsung failing to launch a single press release to announce it. The reason may be found in the fact that the Galaxy Axiom is a rather unimpressive…
Not everyone liked HP’s idea to effectively abandon webOS. Developer community embraced the company’s decision to open source the OS and group of enthusiast behind the Phoenix project is now doing something to resurrect one of the fanciest mobile platforms ever. For a start, they launched a mobile application that brings the whole OS along…
Microsoft is working on an update for its Windows Phone 8 that will be unveiled in early 2013. Codenamed Apollo Plus, the updated software will bring several new features that weren’t fully in scope for the Windows Phone 8 initial release, along with some smaller enhancements. Here’s what we expect: VPN support – which was…
Before the first BlackBerry 10 device(s) start shipping, RIM is doing everything it can to keep the momentum going. Just recently, they’ve informed the world that BlackBerry developers will be able to benefit from integrated carrier billing. The Canadian company has struck deals with more than 50 mobile operators around the world, 5 from its…
Thanks to the NenaMark benchmarks we’ve been learning about some phones long before they were officially announced. Now a new entry wants us to think Samsung is testing the upcoming Galaxy S4. The website lists a device with model number GT-I9400 and the logic says this is the next-gen Galaxy S smartphone (since the Galaxy…
HTC has started rolling out Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for its One X smartphone, with users in India, Argentina, UK, Russia, Dominican Republic, Peru, Brazil and Sri Lanka getting it as we speak. However, that doesn’t mean every single One X owner in the countries listed above will get the new firmware on the…
Last time we’ve heard, Windows Phone 7.8 will launch in early 2013. However, the new rumor suggests that may happen sooner than expected with Nokia Lumia 510 already caught running it. The information comes from the Chinese website winp.cn, which also got the play with Windows Phone 7.8 on Nokia’s entry-level smartphone. As you probably…
Nevermind all of the important events that happened in 2012 that impacted millions of lives such as the 2012 United States Presidential Election and Hurricane Sandy. What was on the minds of Bing users most this year so far was none of that. It was the launch of the Apple iPhone 5. Yes, the iPhone…