LTE to WCDMA mid-call Now, stick with us, because this might sound like the most technical opening to a news story in the history of Pocket-lint but it is a pretty big deal in the evolution of mobile phones: Qualcomm, working alongside Ericsson, has successfully completed the first voice call [...]
Tablets are catching on fast, leaving cheap PC makers in the dust. Graph: Pew Internet Roughly ten percent of Americans got a tablet for Christmas, according to figures published by the Pew Research Center. In mid-December, 10 of U.S adults owned a tablet computer. Now, that figure has jumped to [...]
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RIM issues statement BlackBerry has issued a statement regarding the London riots after claims that those involved are using the company’s secure messaging service, BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), to organise the rioting. “We feel for those impacted by this weekend’s riots in London,” says Patrick Spence, managing director, Global Sales and [...]
Another step closer to launch Apple has released a new version of iOS 5 to developers over the weekend as the mobile phone operating system for Apple’s iPhones continues to head towards launch.? New to the experience is an over the air update option that means developers don’t need to [...]
No underground Olympic talk The plan to have a 3G mobile network in the tunnels of the London Underground in time for the 2012 Olympics has been scrapped due to escalating costs. Back in November last year reports broke of a supposed ?150 million deal between TFL and the big [...]
Finally, Microsoft states some numbers for its new phone OS Finally, someone over in Redmond has spilled the beans as to how many Windows Phone 7 devices have been shifted – over 1.5 million. The figure was publicly stated by Achim Berg, Microsoft’s vice president of business and marketing for [...]
If you’re going broke, look for reasons to sue rich people. That seems to be the strategy behind a Taiwanese company’s threat to take legal action against Apple. Struggling Taiwanese company Proview told Financial Times that it plans to sue Apple over infringement of the trademark “iPad.” Proview over a [...]
Another one bites the dust Oh dear. Poor old Symbian. Oncee the king of the mobile OS playground, the struggling platform is losing friends faster than Mel Gibson. First up Sony Ericsson ditched the open source OS, with some damning comments at the end of September and now Samsung has [...]
One of the cool new features on the iPhone 4 is video calling, or as Apple calls it, Facetime video. Unfortunately, it only works over a WiFi connection which, if you’re on the road, isn’t always readily available as compared to 3G. That’s about to change though with the release [...]