December 10, 2012
Once again a new iPhone has been released and once again Apple breaks worldwide records in terms of units sold and shipped. Is the new iPhone 5 that good or have the consumers become so excited by the hype and marketing surrounding any new major Apple product that they purchase it regardless of its quality? [...]
Tags: Apple, Apple Maps, facebook, Features, iphone 5, Passbook, Smartphone, twitter
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October 26, 2012
The Galaxy Note II is the successor of the first Galaxy Note smartphone which at 5.3 inches took a really big risk, because it was comically large for a smartphone. The fact is that Samsung really thought this product through. The company has managed to sell more than ten million units by August this year. [...]
Tags: 720p, android, Galaxy Note 2, hd, samsung, Smartphone, Super AMOLED
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August 9, 2012
With all due respect to Symbian, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, and any other mobile platform not named Android or iOS, you’re all just a bunch of also-rans in what’s becoming “unquestionably a two-horse race,” according to data and analysis by Internation…
Tags: android, Apple, Google, ios, mobile, operating system, samsung, Smartphone
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July 11, 2012
Where there’s smoke, you’ll often find fire, which turned out to be the case when it was rumored Amazon was working on a low-cost tablet, a device that would turn out be the Kindle Fire. Now we’re hearing that Amazon wants to try its hand at the smartp…
Tags: amazon, hardware, mobile, Smartphone
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February 9, 2011
DIY repair website iFixIt has a serious fetish with tearing into electronics just for the fun of it, and this week they’ve carved into Verizon’s iPhone 4. Externally, iFixIt notes there’s isn’t a huge difference between Verizon’s CDMA model and AT&…
Tags: hardware, ifixit, iphone 4, mobile, Smartphone, teardown
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February 7, 2011
Sprint announced the Kyocera Echo, the first dual-screen Android phone, at its event tonight.
While we had known about this event for a month, we had no clue until today what was being announced. Earlier today we learned that it looked th…
Tags: android, Features, Kyocera Echo, Smartphone, Sprint
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February 7, 2011
As is the tradition these days, the new Verizon iPhone has been torn down by interested parties to see what makes it tick. There are a few minor differences. For instance, the vibration mechanism is different, the speaker housing has been tweaked, and …
Tags: Apple, at&t, cdma, cell phones, dual-mode, GSM, hardware, iPhone, mobile, mobile phone, Smartphone, Verizon
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February 4, 2011
Think Verizon Wireless customers aren’t jonesing for a “middle aged” iPhone 4 device, as Consumer Reports calls it? Think again. Despite the lack of any upgraded features — and arguably a few CDMA-based downgrades — it didn’t even take a full day for…
Tags: Apple, hardware, iPhone, iphone 4, mobile, pre-order, Smartphone, Verizon
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