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The wildly popular social networking giant, Facebook, plans to generate $1.2 billion from mobile advertising, according to UK-based analyst firm Mobile Squared. This bit of news has circulated for some time now, as we recently reported the social networking site was working on bringing ads to smartphones and tablets in the near future. The $1.2…
Samsung may have spilled the beans on an unannounced tablet that could be showing up at Mobile World Congress. On the company’s invitation to a Samsung Developer event, it lists known devices like the Galaxy Note and Wave 3 but it also lists a mysterious “Galaxy Note 10.1.” The bigger version of the Note is…
Now that Nokia’s decided to make all their phones in Asia in order to try and save some money, why not also go with cheaper Asian components? According to DigiTimes, who has a mixed track record, but have proved themselves reliable numerous times in the past, Nokia is considering going with either MediaTek or MStar…
Well what do we have here? Some sort of special version of the DROID RAZR, which according to rumors will be offered to Verizon’s employees. It is said that those wearing Big Red’s t-shirts will be able to get the Limited Edition 16GB model of DROID RAZR for $99 and 32GB DROID RAZR MAXX for…
Believe or not, we’re still a quarter or so away from the long-awaited launch of the first RIM device to run the BlackBerry 10 operating system. Well, today, we at least got a sneak peek of what to expect from the Canadian phone makers upcoming OS, thanks to some leaked documents that landed in the…
Four months ago we filed a report saying LG Display and AU Optronics sent Apple 7.85 inch LCD panels so that they could start working on a smaller iPad. Two months ago we said that sources in Taiwan are essentially confirming the 7.85 inch form factor exists and that said smaller iPad is due to…
Mobile World Congress, the largest wireless exhibition on the fact of the planet, is set to kick off in just two weeks. We’ll be there trying to cover the glut of smartphone and tablet announcements, of course, but thanks to Pocketnow our job may have just gotten a whole lot easier. Apparently they just got…
Here’s the deal – Samsung has filed for a “Galaxy Camera” trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, with Goods and Services marked as “Cameras and camcorders.” Now this doesn’t necessarily mean the Korean company will launch Android-powered cameras, but… why not? Sammy is using the Galaxy brand for its smartphones, media players…
With Mobile World Congress just around the corner and Samsung holding off on the Galaxy S III, the table is set for a company like HTC to “win” the show. Rumors suggest that it will introduce a monster handset called the “Endeavour” and this could signal a massive change for HTC smartphones. This doesn’t appear…
Details of a new low-end Samsung device leaked today and it looks like this new handset will be called the Galaxy mini 2. This successor to the Samsung Galaxy Mini S5570 has some subtle changes like a bigger 3.3-inch screen with higher resolution (HVGA), a faster 800MHz processor and 3GB of built-in storage. The mini 2 will also run some…