Smartphones news and reviews

There is a question that has been looming in over our heads for a long time, and that is, do we really need smartphones? Keep reading to see my views on the matter, you might or might not agree.

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Your current mobile phone might be busted, or you might simply be looking to upgrade. Either way, if you’re thinking of getting a new phone but just aren’t sure if you really need one, then this quick guide can help you get started. (more…)

Well then, isn’t this just both interesting and stupid all at the same time. Consumer electronics recycler and reseller Gazelle, posted some ridiculous findings of a survey they conducted at CES 2012. Ladies and gentlemen, what you are about to read will have you wondering if the Gazelle staff are intelligence enough to be compared to an actual Gazelle in the wild.

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This comes at no surprise, the Apple iPhone 4S is the best selling smartphone on the 3 top carriers in the US, followed by the Samsung Galaxy S II. Analysts from the Canacord Genuity group came out gunning with this information on Monday, and although everything is as expected, we still find it exciting to know for sure who is on top in the world of smartphones and tablets.

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The Lumia 800 and 710 are both gaining much needed love amongst tech heads, but here comes another dubbed as the Nokia Lumia 601 which is expected to be less capable than the Lumia 710. At the moment, the Lumia 601 is just a rumor and the images are said to be leaked, but until we get some concrete evidence, this little sweetheart will perish in the rumor mill until then.

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Just when we thought MeeGo would end up somewhere in the gutter with webOS, something came along and put our dear little thoughts to sleep, gaddamnit. From what we can decipher, MeeGo will be replaced with Tizen, a new open source operating system by the Linux Foundation guys.

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After over a year of waiting, Intel has finally answered the call and announced the first smartphone based on its Medfield mobile CPU. Earlier at IDF, Andy Rubin, the man who founded Android, joined the stage with Intel’s CEO, Paul Otellini to announce something special and fantastic at the same time. 

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Is this the case of the iPhone 5? That’s what folks are saying. At first glance, you will realize how much bigger the case is when the iPhone 4 is set within it, leaving us to believe that the iPhone 5 would most likely be kicking it with a 4-inch display.

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The big bad Taiwanese smartphone maker, HTC, is gearing up to launch its new Android based smartphone, the HTC Bliss. The main attraction on this device is HTC Sense 3.5, and I have to say, I am not impressed with what I saw.

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And so it ends. HP webOS was one of the better mobile platforms that had the potential from day one to become more than what it was, however, it was never to be. According to HP today, the company stated that it would discontinue its task on getting webOS on devices to compete with the competition and focus on the value of the software going.

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