Talk about a lot of sore thumbs: WhatsApp recently announced that its users sent more than 10 billion messages in one day. The company said there were a total of 4 billion inbound messages and 6 billion messages sent through the service on Aug. 23. That’s an incredible figure, although we’re scratching out heads wondering why the two figures aren’t even – we suppose group messaging...
The iPhone 5 is set to sell like gangbusters. Every analyst on the planet has already voiced his or her opinion on the phone's expected sales during the first month, heck, even during the life of the product. That's great, I hope consumers dive all over it and get what they want. But I don't want the iPhone 5. Maybe it was the leaks that killed it for me. I feel like I did when I snuck...
Mobile app maker Vringo announced on Thursday that it will acquire a portfolio of more than 500 worldwide patents and patent applications from Nokia, including 109 issued U.S. patents. "Thirty one of the 124 patent families acquired have been declared essential by Nokia to wireless communications standards," the company said in its press release. Vringo will license the patents and use...
Android and iOS are the two largest operating systems, so it comes as no surprise that, combined, they powered 85% of all smartphones shipped during the second quarter of this year. The figure was published in a report by research firm IDC on Wednesday, but the most compelling information from the report suggests that Android shipments jumped 106.5% year-over-year. There were 50.8...
During a recent partner event, Nokia’s vice president of Western Europe, Conor Pierce addressed more than 120 dealers and said that he wants Nokia to become a “disruptive force” in the handset market. Pierce said Nokia has gone from being an industry leader to a challenger. Samsung recently dethroned Nokia as the world’s top mobile phone producer this past April. “We want to become a...
Nokia is shutting down its Australia Qt offices and laying off the developers team. Former Nokia engineer Atlant Schmidt posted a message on a Qt mailing list saying that Nokia is aggressively looking to sell off its Qt assets. Qt is a cross-platform framework used for mobile and desktop application software with a graphical user interface (GUI). Qt was created by Norwegian software...
The Windows Phone 8 SDK recently leaked and a group of tinkerers have uncovered several new features that Microsoft didn't mention during the Windows Phone 8 announcement last month. A stockpile of screenshots courtesy of the folks at WP7.hu provide an in-depth look at what we can expect to see this fall when the new operating system is released. Microsoft already said that its latest...
We recently brought you our guides to the best smartphones on AT&T, Verizon Wireless and Sprint and now it’s time for the next installment in our series: the best smartphones on T-Mobile USA. Unlike those three aforementioned carriers, T-Mobile still doesn’t have a 4G LTE network. Instead, you’ll find its speediest phones run on a 42Mbps HSPA+ “4G” network – still, we’ve seen speeds...
Nokia chose Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system over its Symbian platform for its newest smartphones. However, the company's board chairman Risto Siilasmaa recently said that the company has a backup plan, just in case Windows Phone doesn't work out. What is it? Forbes briefly suggested the backup plan could be Android, and we agree, although Nokia may also have in-house...
RIM's in the gutter, we all know that. I wanted to write an editorial on its poor fiscal first quarter earnings report yesterday, but there wasn't much more to say that hasn't already been said. The company needed to launch BlackBerry 10 this year — not by the end of the year, but way back before Windows Phone 8, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and iOS 6 were detailed. Instead, the company's...