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Nokia, Intel join forces for MeeGo; LG GW990 will have MeeGo as its OS

16. February 2010

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In a somewhat surprising move, Intel and Nokia announced at the MWC that they’ll be teaming up in developing MeeGo, a new mobile platform that’ll be the lovechild of Maemo (Nokia) and Moblin (Intel). Details about it are still pretty scarce at the moment, but we already have one confirmed upcoming device that’ll feature this [...]

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Great Long Brother: Apple iPad Stole P88 Tablet Design

6. February 2010

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Apparently, Apple has made a humongous mistake in cloning Shenzen’s Great Long Brother Industrial’s P88 Tablet. The company might sue Apple! President Wu Xiaolong: “I was very angry and flabbergasted when I saw the news of the iPad presentation two days ago… It is certainly our design. They’ve stolen because we present our P88 to everyone [...]

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Motorola Droid is Smartphone Winner for Moto

23. January 2010

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Before Motorola was a non-contender in the smartphone race but thanks to the Droid, the mobile manufacturer registers a big blip in the most recent AdMob figures. Moto has taken a bg 6% chunk of ad requests AdMob has recorded, and there’s no reason to suspect that 6% comprises of any other handset besides the [...]

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Nokia Morph soon to be a reality, Patent filed for flexible display technology

19. January 2010

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As far as concept designs are concerned, most of them never really make it into commercial production, and that’s just what we thought when we first saw this Nokia Morph concept phone. However, Nokia’s recent filing of a patent for device equipped with a flexible display is making us think otherwise.

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Google: New More Android Phones in China, Wherefore OPhone?

19. January 2010

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Besides taking its search engine out of China, Google will not be distributing two new Android phones in the country. They are postponing the launch of an Android-based Samsung smartphone and another one from Motorola. Where not sure if this means the MT710 will still be distributed as announced or it will be the XT800 [...]

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Mobile Ad War Beginning: Apple Microsoft to Team Up Because of Google Phone?

17. January 2010

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Nexus One could become an influential handset after all if Apple decides to become a little friendlier to old time rival Microsoft. Peter Burrows of BusinessWeek believes mobile ads, which would most likely get most of its revenues from handsets, could be big enough soon to force an alliance between MSFT and AAPL. With Nexus One, [...]

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Motorola Droid More Valuable than iPhone, Nexus One

15. January 2010

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iSuppli once again brings us the skinny of one of the most popular tech products. The Motorola Droid, our best smartphone for 2009. Well it seems that when Droid is broken down into parts, it pretty much supports our claim. In comparison, the iPhone 3G S and Nexus One are significantly cheaper to make:

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Google flooded with Nexus One 3G complaints

10. January 2010

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Google may have bitten off more than they can chew when they decided to start selling the Nexus One direct to consumers. One thing that’s pretty obvious now is they’ve underestimated the whole customer support side of the business. As a result, their Google Nexus One support forum is now being overwhelmed with complaints regarding [...]

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Windows Mobile 7 to be unveiled at MWC next month?

8. January 2010

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We know Windows Mobile 7 should be released this year, but according to Robbie Bach, Microsoft Entertainment & Device Division President, it may be demoed as early as next month at the Mobile World Congress, better known as MWC, in Barcelona, Spain. Yup, that’s right folks. We could be catching our first glimpses of Windows [...]

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Google, Spotify teaming up to rival Apple iTunes

4. January 2010

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It looks like Google is really serious is taking on Apple head on. Based on this latest rumor, they are now in talks with Spotify, an online music service that already has apps available for the iPhone, Android, and Symbian platform. We’ve got very little information right now as to what their future working relationship [...]

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