Category: Mobile Phones
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Microsoft Making Money from Android’s Success
Microsoft are reaping the rewards of the success of Google’s Android, as they receive $5 from every phone HTC sells according to a new report. Microsoft and HTC came to this agreement to settle a patent dispute a while back, with HTC agreeing to pay Microsoft $5 for every Android device it produced. The ironic…
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Samsung’s Attorney Demands iPhone 5 and iPad 3
There are a lot of people who would benefit from knowing Apple’s future plans. Competitors, consumers, Journalists, share holders, to name but a few. The mere knowledge of what Apple’s next instalment of the iPad and iPhone will look like has the potential to make a huge impact on the tech market. Needless to say,…
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Ofcom bans 36 month mobile phone contracts
UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has introduced three new rulings to benefit UK mobile phone users. The three new regulations will reduce contract lengths, improve phone number porting times and also introduce a new emergency SMS system. Firstly UK networks will no longer be able to offer ridiculous 36 month contracts on mobile phones or mobile…
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Ofcom reveals O2 as fastest UK mobile network for broadband – Orange is not so bright
Hopefully the future is bright for Orange, because the present is pretty dull according to an Ofcom review which outs the UK network as our nation’s slowest mobile broadband provider. Orange reportedly fails to keep up with the demands of the UK public when it comes to 3G internet, with drooping dongles and poor performance at…
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Google Wallet – Google’s NFC payment service is now official
Well it was hardly a secret that Google were going to introduce a mobile payment system, but Google has now made its official announcement about the new service, and here is the low-down. Currently Google has teamed up with US mobile operator Sprint and also with credit card companies such as Mastercard, Citi and First…
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Blackberry Torch 2 pictures appear
We heard about the successor to the popular Blackberry Torch back in January, but since then manufacturer RIM have done a pretty good job of keeping a lid on it. Until now.. Undercover snaps of the front and back of the forthcoming Blackberry Torch 2 have surfaced over at TechnoBuffalo. What we’ve been treated to…