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Windows Phone fragmentation, for all intents and purposes, doesn’t exist. If you bought the first Windows Phones to roll off an assembly line back in 2010, then chances are you’re running the latest version of the OS. This will change by the time we reach the fourth quarter of this year. Let’s start with Tango,…
Personal data stored on smartphones has become quite the hot-button topic of late. With Apple and Google playing the defensive after it was outed that applications are allowed to have access to contact information or all your photos stored on the device (among others), smartphone users don’t always know what their rights are when it…
The number of employees bringing their own devices (BYOD) to the workplace has grown exponentially in recent years; a full 80% of employed adults use some kind of personal device (smartphones, tablets, or PCs) for work-related functions. While a large proportion of this 80% is likely attributed to personal computers, the ushering in of the…
Here in Finland we have three major operators: Elisa, Sonera, and DNA. Elisa has the biggest/best network, Sonera is decent, and DNA is small, but is growing fast. Last month, on the first of February, Nokia’s Lumia 800 finally went on sale in the country that it calls home. At the time I tweeted: “The…
Anyone remember Paul Amsellem? He’s the Nokia employee who a little over three months ago gave an interview to the French newspaper Les Échos and spilled the beans on two of the company’s upcoming devices. The first piece of hardware he leaked, and I’m using the term “leak” very loosely here, was the Nokia Lumia…
The Nokia Lumia 900 is almost ready for the prime time in the U.S. with government paid engineers having an opportunity to play with the device before the rest of the nation. They dissected the device, exposing its guts to the general public as you can see from a photo above. If you happen to…
Though I’ve only been to Austin once, in just a short time it has propelled itself to my short list of favorite American cities. On my bucket list this year was a trip down to Austin for the illustrious South by Southwest, the music, film, and recently startup and application launch/promotion conference which takes place March 9th…
We’re just about wrapped up with Mobile World Congress 2012 and the largest mobile-focused conference was filled with major announcements from nearly every company. Not everything was a home run though, so let’s take a look at who really stood out from the crowd. Winners Android Google’s Android was the star of Mobile World Congress,…
Microsoft took to the stage at MWC and unveiled the lastest pre-release version of Windows 8. The Consumer Preview version of the OS is available for public download and you can grab the ISO file from Microsoft’s website. Sadly, this build is for desktops and not tablets, so we will have a wait a bit…
Windows Phone 8 is going dual-core, according to a report from The Verge. Qualcomm indicated that the Windows Phone development team is currently testing its Snapdragon S4 system on a chip in a device to be released later this year. As you may recall, Windows Phone 8 “Apollo” is rumored to add support for multi-core…