MWC 2012 Event and Party Calendar. Things to do at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
It’s that time of the year again – Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona is a little more than 2 weeks away. This time GSMA has decided to move the show from the middle to the end of February. Finally mobile industry professionals will be able to spend Valentines day with their loved ones, instead [...]
Windows Phone 8 (Apollo) will support multi-core processors, NFC, more resolutions, microSD
Microsoft hasn’t even launched Windows Phone Tango (possibly bearing the version number 7.6) yet, and here we have two gigantic leaks regarding the next ‘big’ release – Windows Phone 8 (which we’ve known so far by its codename, Apollo). The leaks come from PocketNow and WinSuperSite, and while the two sources agree on most of [...]
Samsung Galaxy Nexus now just £449.41 at Amazon UK
If you’re in the UK and don’t care whether or not there’s a new and slightly better-specced Samsung Galaxy Nexus on the way, here’s something for you. The currently selling pure Google phone has received an ever so slight price drop in its SIM-free and unlocked form over there. You can now grab one straight [...]
Higher-end Samsung Galaxy Nexus coming soon?
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is a high-end device as it is, that’s for sure. Still, even when it was announced a few months ago, it wasn’t the absolute top of the line smartphone. For those of you disappointed that, for example, its dual-core CPU is only clocked at 1.2 GHz, here’s something interesting. The Galaxy [...]
Nokia Q4 2011 results. PR lipstick on the approaching trouble
On Thursday Nokia announced its results for Q4/full year 2011. And it is a mixed bag of goods. On the surface, the result looks pretty good, and it seems that Nokia managed to stop the free fall it experienced in the first half of last year. But if you look closer at the reported numbers [...]
Samsung ships 31-36M smartphones in Q4 2011. Loses top smartphone maker spot to Apple
Samsung reported its Q4 2011 results today. Unfortunately, with each quarterly report, Sammy is becoming more and more secretive about its mobile and smart phone shipment numbers. Leaving it to analyst houses to provide us with educated guesses. Which, for July-September quarter in smartphones, ranged from 23.6 million (IDC) to 27.8 million (Strategy Analytics) units [...]
Google activated 250 million Androids so far, may have topped 1 million/day in the second half of Q4
Google has just announced its results for the fourth quarter of 2011. The most important number concerning Android is 250 million – that’s the amount of devices Google has activated so far. It’s a staggering number, and one that was in sight for Google even in June. The growth in total Android activations is interesting. [...]
All-white Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus spotted in Vietnam, may be launching soon
It looks like both the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus are about to get a new paint job. White, to be precise. And yes, we do know that in some territories you’ve been able to buy these tablets in white for quite a while now. But this is all-white we’re [...]
Samsung Mandel LTE Windows Phone may still be on its way to AT&T, despite not being announced yet
In December, we heard about AT&T’s plans to launch three new Windows Phones during CES – the Nokia Lumia 900 (check), the HTC Radiant, which turned out to be the Titan II (check), and the Samsung Mandel (MIA). So what happened to the Samsung Mandel (or Mendel, as we’ve seen it referred to once before)? [...]
Hey, top Nokia brass, could you please STFU now? And let your deeds do the talking
Dear Nokians, Especially up there at the top. Could you please shut up now, and let the results of your work speak for themselves? Instead of creating wildly unrealistic expectations that are bound to backfire when not met. You’ve been doing such a great job managing expectations prior to Nokia World and the launch of [...]
iPhone 5 and iPad 3 may come with quad-core processors, iOS 5.1 beta reveals
Apple is undoubtedly already working on the next generation iPhone and iPad, which we’ll call iPhone 5 and iPad 3 even though Apple may choose to release them under different names. In the past few days, we’ve seen many rumors about the next iPad, but none of those said anything about its processor. This bit [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia HD (Nozomi) shows up in the wild again, the teasing continues
Today we bring you a new leak and a new tease, the latter courtesy of Sony Ericsson itself. Let’s start with the leak. ITProPortal has many pictures of what it claims to be the Sony Ericsson Nozomi, which will end up being sold as the Xperia HD (so the ‘Arc’ moniker seems to have been [...]
Microsoft again rumored to be in talks to buy Nokia’s smartphone division, Elop to resign next year
Microsoft is talking with Nokia about buying the Finnish company’s smartphone division, along with two factories. How many times have we heard this before? Too many to count, really, but today we’ve heard it once more. Interestingly, most of these ‘Microsoft will buy Nokia’ rumors tend to come from the same source: Eldar Murtazin, the [...]
Samsung Galaxy Nexus vs Nokia Lumia 800 vs iPhone 4S Comparison/Review. Part 2–Sofware, UX&Conclusions
This is the second and closing part of our comparison/ review featuring Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Apple iPhone 4S and Nokia Lumia 800. In the first part, we had a closer look at the hardware and performance of the three flagships. Today we’ll compare and highlight differences in the software platforms and overall user experience on [...]
Samsung Galaxy Nexus vs Nokia Lumia 800 vs iPhone 4S Comparison/Review. Part 1 – Hardware & Performance
Choosing a smartphone to carry for the next year or two is a difficult task these days. There are tens of devices running on 7 operating systems/platforms, at prices ranging from 100 to 600 Euro. To make that choice a little bit easier we took a closer look at the flagships representing 3 smartphone platforms, [...]
Andy Rubin: “Android daily activations top 700K”. On the way to 1 million a day in Q2 2012
Oh my. Just when I almost made up my mind that Android growth has stalled, Andy Rubin comes out with another growth data point to mock all of us, doubters. According to Google’s mobile chief, they are now activating 700K Android devices a day. And, just to dispel any doubts that are indeed all new [...]
Samsung Galaxy Nexus Review: The Next Step for Android
In a world where Android now powers more than half of all smartphones sold in the last quarter, the so called ‘Google phones’ find themselves in rather awkward position in the market. Releasing once per year, these smartphones break little ground in terms of hardware. Down to its core, however, the fundamental selling point is [...]
Verizon Samsung Galaxy Nexus with extended battery shows up on video
It’s rather sad that it’s now December 13, and Verizon is still quiet regarding the launch date of its Samsung Galaxy Nexus. But we must not lose hope. The Android ICS smartphone keeps on appearing in leaked photos, documents, and even videos. The latest Verizon Galaxy Nexus video shows the handset with an official extended [...]
O2 UK will lease you a smartphone for £55 per month, with minutes, texts, data, and insurance included
If you’re in the UK, you should know that O2 has just announced the first smartphone leasing programme for consumers. As the name implies, this effectively means that the operator will lease you “a new 16 GB smartphone” for 12 months. After that time elapses, you can choose to renew your lease, choose another smartphone [...]
HP sends webOS to death in the hands of “the open source community”, may do tablets again in 2013
webOS’ fate has been sealed. If you were still wondering (in which case you’re unbelievably fanboyish), webOS is dead. Or, at least, the webOS that you and I know is. Officially. So how did HP choose to end this little mobile OS that (once) could? Simple. HP Symbianed webOS. Yes, webOS will be contributed to [...]