A recent report of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) says that there are a lot of people around the world who don’t read. The reason for this is that they do not have access to books. Reading requires books and without this people will not be able to practice their reading
Xiaomi MI-2 poses a great threat to any high-end smartphones in the market today, especially in China, because not only does it feature Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 chipset with quad-core processor, it also comes packed with buttery smooth user interface (MIUI v4.0) on top of the custom Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system. Apparently, the device
Chinese smartphone maker, Oppo, revealed its newest masterpiece in a bid to grow its share in the Android market dominated by seasoned manufacturers. Oppo Find 5 will come bringing along a bunch of features that only a few smartphones offer. It is apparent that Oppo is trying to produce eye-catching products; earlier this year it
One thing that has been crippling to the U.S. mobile phone market is locked phones. In every other part of the world customers purchase the phone they want and then take it to the carrier they want. Sure it means that customers pay a little more for the device but they aren’t relegated to a
3G consultant Tomi Ahonen was speaking at the Mobile Web Africa conference in Johannesburg where they were discussing rising trends in mobile and wireless. Ahonen revealed a shocking statistic and that is that the average person looks at their phone 150 times a day. That’s once every 6.5 minutes while they are awake. How often
A new survey from Velti suggests that smartphones may cut into advertising revenue for the Super Bowl. Not only is Sunday’s football game the biggest sporting event in the U.S. it’s also the largest ad revenue generating event in sports. Velti, a leading global provider of mobile marketing and technology, released the results of a
Nuance, probably the biggest name in voice to text, speech recognition technology on Android smartphones, had a hate hate relationship with competitor Vlingo for quite some time. Over the years Nuance has sued Vlingo several times over patent infringement. In fact at one time Nuance had four lawsuits against Vlingo while at the same time
Sprint’s newest entry level Android phone, the Kyocera Milano, was originally released just two weeks ago on September 8th. Of course it didn’t get the huge fanfare that the “Android Community” gives a device like the Sprint Epic Touch 4G, but the Milano isn’t geared towards that group. The Kyocera Milano, and phones like it,
Google Wallet finally launched on Monday. The service lets you use your phone as a payment device via NFC. NFC seems to be the wave of the future. This past February in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress, Google Executive Chairman (CEO at the time), Eric Schmidt delivered a keynote where he spoke very highly of
Intel is holding their developers forum today. The biggest news out of the developer’s forum wasn’t even Android it was Microsoft’s Windows 8 running on tablets. So far the interwebs are on fire with positive reviews about the OS on tablets. In our Android world Andy Rubin just left the stage after dropping some very
South Korea’s Korea Economic Daily newspaper reported today that LG has laid off 30% of it’s mobile division overseas. The Korean paper cited an unnamed source but other reports started popping up across the internet at the same time. LG has had a rough two years but started a huge turn around after an executive
Well there you have it folks, Sprint is launching a phone September 9th and it’s not the Samsung Galaxy S II. The Samsung Galaxy S II will arrive at Sprint September 16th. What Sprint is getting is an entry level Android slider called the “Milano”. No big magic show, no hocus pocus, no dual screen.
If a post on the Sprint User Form, allegedly from an employee of Sprint has any merit than we may see a sizable increase in Early Termination Fees at Sprint. Sprint currently has a $200 Early Termination Fee (ETF) for those who abandon their Sprint contract before the two years is over. The ETF is
Last Wednesday it was revealed that Samsung had a handful of new “Galaxy” branded Android devices coming out. These new devices would be called Galaxy and then a letter of the alphabet, like the Samsung Galaxy S and the Samsung Galaxy R. The devices revealed Wednesday were the Samsung Galaxy W, The Samsung Galaxy M