Category Archives: Devices and Gadgets

Dual SIM/Dual Receive changing user behavior

In Asia markets Multi SIM phones that handles two or three “active” idle modes at the same time have been around for a couple of years. This has forced the market leader Nokia to lauch Dual SIM phones on these markets. The … Continue reading

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An era laid to rest: Sony buys Ericsson out of mobile phone joint venture

Sony Corp is to take over its mobile phone joint venture with Ericsson for 1.05 billion euros ($1.5 billion), as it seeks to exploit its music and video to help it catch smartphone leaders such as Apple Inc, Reuters reports. … Continue reading

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Massive long-term study – no increased risks of brain cancer

The BMJ (British Medical Journal) published last week an extensive study by researchers at the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen, Denmark . The study include all Danish Mobile Telephone subscriber during the time period 1990-2007. In total  the 358 … Continue reading

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France Telecom outlines mobile offload strategy

In a recent post on Total telecom, France Telecom says that WiFI is the right approach to off-load mobile data traffic. The challanges lies, however, in the available spectrum and in backhaul:  “The majority of smartphones are capable of using WiFi … Continue reading

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Androids take the lead

A recent article in NielsenWire shows that Android is now in 56% of all smartphones sold in August 2011. Apple keeps its 28% share of convinced followers but the remaining competition (I guess including Windows mobile is basically obliterated.  58% … Continue reading

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Back to circuit switched – the optimal anti mobile broadband device

Johns Phone is a brand new GSM device for those who actively deselects the mobile broadband evolution. This device is just for making calls, and lack every data service whatsoever including SMS. The main features are battery life time (more … Continue reading

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What is mobile augmented reality?

As a term, Mobile augmented reality (AR) was adopted in order to describe the use of data technology with content that can be interacted and displayed real-time view of the world. Already some apps are widely used mostly by smartphones and so … Continue reading

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Android Apps for Non-Android Phones!

‘Alien Dalvik’ announced by Myriad, brings opportunity to run Android apps on Non-Android devices. Alien Dalvik is emulation software allowing the majority of Android applications to run unmodified by repackaging Android Package files. What this gives to a mobile user: … Continue reading

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iPhone vs Android vs Blackberry

A fascinating cartoon. Please enjoy it! http://www.csectioncomics.com/2010/11/iphone-vs-android-vs-blackberry.html

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Print your spoken words from your iPhone! But only yours, really?

It is interesting the way that Apple iPhone is facilitating social networking and even allow you to get your spoken words into a printed document in just a moment. Dragon Dication seems like a very simple and amazing application. I … Continue reading

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