Archive for Smartphones

Windows phones are Coming on October 6th!

Sep 01, 2009 No Comments

In just five weeks, you’ll have a bunch of new Windows phones to choose from. But before we show you some of the cool, new phones that will be coming out, I want to explain how we’re trying to make phones even better with Windows… Tweet This Post

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Intel tips Moorestown details, talks up x86 smartphones

Sep 01, 2009 No Comments

At Hot Chips this past week, Intel’s Rajesh Patel revealed more details of the chipmaker’s upcoming Moorestown platform. Patel, who is the lead architect of the platform’s system-on-a-chip (SoC) part, also made it clear that he really does believe that Moorestown is a bona fide “smartphone” platform that will give us the world’s first x86-based [...]

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Google Voice Warms Up For iPhone, Cuts Off Calls After 15 Minutes

Aug 30, 2009 No Comments

Google Voice users have been complaining the last couple of days that calls using the service are unceremoniously terminated after 15 minutes. The service is still in beta, but as we’ve written before, users expect perfection when it comes to voice calls. Problems like this make it hard for people to trust the service… Tweet [...]

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Apple, AT&T face yet another iPhone MMS lawsuit

Aug 30, 2009 No Comments

For at least the third time this month, Apple and AT&T are being sued by a consumer complaining of being duped into believing that multimedia messaging, or MMS, was already available on the iPhone. Filed in the Northern District of Ohio on Wednesday (PDF hosted by Wired), plaintiff Deborah Carr says Apple and AT&T misled [...]

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Facebook 3.0 For iPhone Now Available On The App Store

Aug 29, 2009 No Comments

Nearly two weeks after submitting the app to Apple, Facebook’s totally revamped 3.0 application is finally live on the App Store, according to the app’s developer Joe Hewitt. You can download it now here. The store currently shows that the app is version 2.5, but if you click the Download button anyway you’ll get the [...]

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Nokia “Mini-Laptop”: Like a Netbook, but With a Completely Different Name

Aug 24, 2009 No Comments

The world’s largest mobile phone maker has finally entered the PC market. Not a week after confirming its interest in the netbook market, Nokia leapt into it, uncrating the Booklet 3G–a 2.8-pound “mini-laptop” with 3G, WiFi and A-GPS support, a 10-inch HD-ready display and a claimed 12 hours of battery life. The machine will feature [...]

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Critics call shenanigans after Apple, AT&T letters to FCC

Aug 23, 2009 No Comments

All responses are in to the Federal Communications Commission’s query asking why Apple put Google Voice for its iPhone on ice. But chances are that the answers that the FCC has received from Apple and AT&T will only provoke more questions. Here’s the good news, iPhone users. Never mind that New York Times story citing [...]

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Smartphones drive language learning innovation

Aug 23, 2009 No Comments

HONG KONG (AFP) – The boom in “smartphones”, led by Apple’s iPhone, has inspired language learning tools that would have been inconceivable just months ago — and a Hong Kong firm is leading the charge. Tens of thousands of “apps” — individual programmes that can be downloaded to the phone and do everything from recognising [...]

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