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Last week we launched our weekly giveaway with a killer device, and for week two we’re following up with another solid offering. Our friends at Nokia are showing up big, offering not one but five T-Mobile branded Lumia 710 units for our lucky readers! Indeed, we’ll be picking out five winners and shipping one out to each
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Engadget Giveaway: win one of five Nokia Lumia 710s on T-Mobile, courtesy of Nokia!
Not all mobile news is destined for the front page, but if you’re like us and really want to know what’s going on, then you’ve come to the right place.
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Mobile Miscellany: week of February 6th, 2012
If you ask us, miracles are pretty hard to come by, and it would take a great amount of gusto for a smartphone manufacturer to bestow such a weighty name upon a rather middling handset. The crew at Pocketnow claim that’s exactly what LG’s done with its latest Windows Phone , however, which was previously known as the Fantasy . That’s right, folks, you’re looking at a purported Miracle — weren’t you expecting more?
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Could LG’s Fantasy be an outright Miracle?
Nokia Lumia 800 will be making it’s entrance to US on February 14th. It seems like they are trying to targeting the Valentine’s shoppers
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Nokia Lumia 800 To Be Launch In US On February 14th
Another MVNO is going live on Sprint’s network, and this time Elevate is the one signing the dotted line. The company, known primarily for providing digital services such as VoIP, wireline and wireless broadband in 22 markets across the country, is now aiming to expand its portfolio by using the Now Network to provide both postpaid and prepaid mobile plans for its customers. While we’re still waiting to hear the specifics, Elevate mentioned that it will feature Android and “Windows-based devices.” The MVNO will also be leveraged to support the company’s Smart Home automation service, taking advantage of a new app that will give customers remote access to all aspects of their home security systems
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Elevate aims high, agrees to become Sprint’s newest MVNO
Only last week we have managed to see some of the HTC Ville features via a video leaked. Unfortunately, the video was made private soon after. But do not worry cause we got some nice pictures on the device
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HTC Ville Images Leaked Once Again
Nokia’s revealing the secrets behind ClearBlack: its display technology that, even under the brightest sunlight, renders black as black as blackest night during a dark spell. Wedged above the E7 , Lumia 800 and 900 displays are three thin layers, a linear polarizer, a quarter-wave retardation film and a reflecting surface. When light enters the first layer, it vertically aligns the “wave vibration” of the light so when it hits the retardation layer, it begins to rotate towards the right.
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Nokia reveals polarizing secrets of ClearBlack display
According to the latest research from the NPD group, Apple has got its second wind in smartphone sales. In the same quarter that saw the iPhone 4S reinvent the wheel obey our every vocal whim, the trio of available models soaked up a total of 43 percent of the US smartphone market in Q4 2012, apparently knawing away at Android’s market share of 53 percent held during the rest of 2011 . However, Google’s mobile OS appears to be the debutante smartphone of choice, cornering 57 percent of new purchases, with 34 percent going for Apple.
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NPD: iPhones recover market share in Q4 2011, but Android draws the first-timer crowds
Today’s been all about the white phones , and Nokia’s new Lumia matches that glossy finish we saw on its near-identical twin, the white N9 . Here, opposing the matte goodness of the rest of Lumia 800 family, the unibody shell has an almost-enamel feel on what we’ve heard is still polycarbonate material.
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Nokia Lumia 800 White hands-on
Never ending changes on Motorola DROID 4 launched date might got on some people nerves.
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Motorola Droid 4 To Be Launched On February 10th
Casio Japan has announced the Exilim EX-ZR300, a high-speed CMOS-based 16MP 12.5x zoom compact. The ZR300 features a 24-300mm equivalent zoom and dual ‘Exilim Engine HS’ processors to offer autofocus in as little as 0.12sec and start-up in under 1 sec.
Do you like your cars smart ? Are you itching to drive something a bit more K.I.T.T. than KIA
The ONE Street Tweeter is kind of like a giant, mobile ink-jet printer, only way more political. It wasn’t around in time for the height of the Occupy protests, but made its debut at the G8 Summit
When we’re not looking up at the stars, we’re likely looking at a screen, so any chance to combine those two is greeted with open arms.
NPD DisplaySearch is declaring Apple to be the undisputed champion of the mobile PC business for the first quarter of the year. The fruity phone flinger shipped ( shipped , not sold) 17.2 million mobile PCs in the time, a figure that contentiously includes the iPad
Dell hasn’t been having the greatest of years, and the blows are still as heavy as ever in Round Rock’s fiscal Q1.
3D printing with ABS and other plastics that have a low-melting point are old hat. And, with the price of entry dropping below the $500 mark , soon enough anyone will be able print their own pirated 45s
Charitable entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox has teamed up with Microsoft , TalkTalk , and Simplify Digital to bring a cheaper option for cash-strapped folks in the UK. Starting today, you can buy a refurbished computer with broadband service for a year (with a 40GB monthly cap) for as little as £149 ($240) — and that price drops even lower for people on state benefits. The “Go On UK” initiative also throws in a WiFi router and Windows 7 to further spread that non-profit love around the nation — just like we have going on in the US .
In my view, smartphones are all about the future, and the best handsets are usually the ones with the wildest, slickest mobile technology. Sure, cutting-edge wireless computing rarely comes cheap, especially phones running Google’s latest and greatest version of Android software, Ice Cream Sandwich . Still it’s good to have a dream, and right now I’m fantasizing big time about the best phones money can buy
We’ve seen DNA flirt with computing and storage before, but a biological system that can record digital data? That’s something different
