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Microsoft is doing something incredibly bold this year. They’re launching three new operating systems. Two of them you’ve already heard about, Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. The third is one that’s set to confuse consumers all around the world, Windows RT. What is it? It’s Windows 8, but made to run on ARM compatible…
Nokia has this really cool service for developers called “Remote Device Access”, RDA for short. Instead of making developers pay top dollar for smartphones to test their apps on, they can instead secure some time to remotely play with a handful of devices that sit in one of Nokia’s offices. According to GSM Arena and…
Google Wallet was announced in May 2011. It’s now been 14 months since the company said they would change the way we pay for things. Have they? Absolutely not. Then there’s ISIS, a mobile payments company setup by three of the four major American operators. They announced their intent to replace the calfskin bifold in…
A new, still unannounced Sony smartphone has been caught at Bluetooth SIG. Marked as LT30p, the upcoming device is rumored to come with Qualcomm’s dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor, 4.6-inch 720p HD screen, powerful 13-megapixel camera on the back, front-facing one with 720p video recording capability and other usual bells and whistles like Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth…
Samsung keeps working on its own apps and services. The new rumor suggests that their IM app, ChatOn, may soon get video chat functionality. According to Korean website DDaily, the upcoming version of the application will be able to work over 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi networks and will be initially released for Android. Moreover, Sammy…
Looks like Sony is working on the successor to its Xperia S smartphone. The information comes from Indonesian website Postel, which caught the Sony device marked as LT26ii in the wild — the Xperia S is marked as LT26i. Details are scarce at the moment (to say the least), leaving us plenty of room to…
DigiTimes is reporting today that the next-generation iPhone will indeed have a quad-core processor inside, according to “industry sources.” Because of intense competition from vendors like HTC, Samsung, LG, and others, the inclusion of a faster processor with more cores would be a big win for Apple. Specifically, Apple is said to be using Samsung’s Exynos 4…
Sprint may get a white version of the HTC Evo 4G LTE on July 15th. The information comes from the TechnoBuffalo website, which says it got the intel from “trusted source.” Somehow we’ve no doubts there’s some truth here since Now Network is well known to release white versions of its popular devices after some…
Google’s new tablet, the Nexus 7, goes for $199. That means you can buy two of them for the same price as a second generation iPad. Does Apple see the smaller 7 inch tablet form factor as a threat? They’ll never admit to it, but there are reports flying around the internets that the answer…
Every iPhone except the current model launched during either June or July. The iPhone 4S hit the street in mid October. Will the next iPhone, the sixth generation model, also land in October? According to Brian White from Topeka Capital Markets, no. The next iPhone will launch one month earlier, in September. Why? Brian doesn’t…