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Exactly five years ago this week, Apple’s iPhone took the smartphone world by storm. Before the iPhone, RIM’s BlackBerry and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile dominated the smartphone world, and both devices featured small screens with big keyboard geared toward the enterprise. With the iPhone, Apple delivered a device for everyone, with a 3.5″ fully touch screen…
Amazon is going to refresh their entire Kindle lineup according to C|Net. They say that the Kindle electronic ink readers are going to get updated, which is great for those of you who want single purpose device, but more importantly the Kindle Fire tablet is also set to be replaced. We don’t know much about…
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…
VIZIO once again issued a press release on the VIZIO Co-Star Stream Player, reminding the world about its Google TV product which was initially introduced at this year’s CES in Las Vegas. The compact device comes with a dual-faced universal remote that has standard numeric keys and a trackpad on one end, and full QWERTY…
These days, everyone and there mama are making devices with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 SoC. LG is also taking part in this trend with NTT Docomo about to start selling the Korean company’s S4-powered smartphone in Japan. The name of the device is Optimus it (model number L-05D), and it’s a solid mid-ranger with specs that…
It’s official – this summer, Spy vs. Spy is coming to an iPhone and iPad near you. Warner Bros. and Robots & Pencils are spreading the good news, with the message above (obscured by reverse alphabetical cipher) reading: White and black spies resurface -(stop)- iPad -(stop)- iPhone -(stop)- iPod Touch -(stop)- online two players -(stop)-…
HipGeo and Rough Guides launched the Rough Guide Trip Lens app for iPad and iPhone, allowing users to transform a collection of individual photos and text into a “creative narrative of travel adventures.” Available as a free download, the application uses location-based technology to pinpoint the user’s location and record their journey as it happens.…
Canada’s Bell Mobility will start selling the LG Optimus L5 on July 10th. As you may know from our previous posts, it’s a low-to-mid end device which is a part of LG’s L-series smartphones. In other words, it’s nothing special and is more catered towards users on a budget who don’t want to spend a…
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…