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HTC Answers Apple
HTC is ready to trade blows with Apple in the courtroom. While the snubbing of Apple’s recent patent infringement lawsuit against the company was expected, HTC has dropped a hint that they are perfectly willing to return the favor to Apple in the form of a counter suit. “HTC disagrees with Apple’s actions and will fully defend itself. HTC strongly advocates intellectual property protection and will continue to respect other innovators and their technologies as we have always done, but we will continue to embrace competition through our own innovation as a healthy way for consumers to get the best mobile experience possible,” said Peter Chou, chief executive officer, HTC Corporation. ‘Strongly advocates intellectual property protection’ has been taken as some in the…
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Nexus One Coming to Sprint
Everyone and their mother are selling the Nexus One apparently. The next merchant to launch Google’s phone will be Sprint. No word of price or date of availability has been revealed, but Sprint execs are already experiencing outrageous orgasms. "Nexus One is a powerful device that belongs on a powerful network,” said Fared Adib, Sprint vice president of product development. Unlike Apple, Google doesn’t give two steaming mounds of dog crap about who sells their products. Their motto has always been to flood the market until you simply cannot ignore their product or service any longer. Sprint will join T-Mobile and AT&T as the third carrier to offer the Nexus One in the United States. The Nexus One supports the Android 2.1 operating system and has received mostly…
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Apple Bans Screen Protectors
Reports from several prominent Apple related blogs have stated that the mobile manufacturer will not longer be selling screen protectors in its retail locations. The new policy by Apple has raised several eyebrows in the mobile industry. Apple has not provided official statement for this new policy, but speculation has it that they don’t want consumers to believe that the iPhone screen is not durable enough to stand the riggers of day to day turbulence and mishap. Unofficial retailers will continue to provide screen savers to customers. While there may be some logic behind Apple’s move, it is another clear example of Apple’s policy, which is ‘we know better than you’. This is in line with the iTunes, App Store and just about every other creation that Apple has ever…
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Motorola CLIQ XT Available Tomorrow
A new Android powered handset will become available via T-Mobile tomorrow, March 17. The device in question is called the Motorola CLIQ XT, and will run users who are willing to sign their soul over to the carrier for two years for a total of one hundred bucks. Those wishing to purchase the device without signing a deal with the devil will have to fork over three times that amount. The Motorola CLIQ XT is likely to receive the upgrade to Android 2.1 which will be appealing to users who care. This Android phenomenon has become a huge tidal wave that doesn’t appear to be letting up any time soon. This has always been the Google way. We will flood the market with our product until people don’t have a choice but to use it. Thankfully, Google’s service is generally a…
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Free Calls on St. Patrick’s Day
Truphone, a VoIP provider similar to Skype, is offering free calls on St. Patrick’s Day to five different countries. The first country is Ireland, the home of green beer and weak guts. Users can call Ireland for free on St. Patrick’s Day. The second country is the UK. The dreaded oppressor of the Irish for many years, those in the once great colonel super power can be called on their landline for free. The United States is the third country and the favored destination of the Irish. The question always arises regarding how long should Irish Americans be considered Irish? But in reality, who cares. Free calls to both landline and mobile. The fourth country is Canada. Home to many frozen Irishmen, Canada is the home of ice wine and frozen beer that is the delight of any…
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Samsung to Release Slate This Year
With the hype surrounding the iPad, it was only a matter of time before rumor and hype regarding slates and tablets from other manufacturers would begin to pick up steam in the rumor mill. According to Emmanuele Silanesu, an executive over at Samsung, the tech giant will be releasing a slate type device in the second half of 2010. There is nothing confirmed as of yet regarding this incarnation, but some speculate that the device would be using an Intel Atom processor. Several other prominent companies have announced that they will be releasing a device similar to the iPad this year. This could be a death sentence for Apple, as the company could attribute much of their previous success on being the only major player in their market niche for an extended period of time.…
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BlackBerry Slider Coming to Sprint
More rumors are gaining momentum in the mobile industry. This time they are emanating from the frosty north of Canada. Research in Motion, (RIM) creator of the beloved BlackBerry, is supposedly working on a slider phone that will be offered via Sprint. No release date has been revealed as of yet, along with the name of the device. Apparently, the slider is not attached to the Bold series of phones, or any other offering by RIM thus far. One tidbit of information that has been confirmed is that there will be a GSM/HSPA version of the new BlackBerry slider that will include 850/1900MHz UMTS bands. These bands are required in order to use the device with AT&T and Rogers networks. Sprint is naturally looking to bolster its lineup of phones, which some critics feel was a bit…
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Nexus One Verizon Release Nears?
The rumors regarding the Verizon version of the Nexus One have started to pick up steam throughout the blogosphere. Some believe that March 23 is the magical date, but that is of course unconfirmed at this time. A prominent communist publication, the Economic Daily Times out of China, reported: “HTC (High Tech Computer) has started shipping CDMA-version of the Nexus One Google phones to Verizon Wireless”. While this does not confirm the launch date, it does indicate that the launch cannot be too far in the future. The publication also reported that Google will begin to market the phone in March or April. This far, Nexus One phones have not sold at the rate Google and the market expected. However, Android powered phones in general have outpaced expectations with over…
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Nokia Apple Dispute Continues
Apple was quick to sue Nokia, but it appears that the court system is not in the same hurry. Reports have surfaced that the litigation between Nokia and Apple will not take place until 2012. For those who are not aware, Nokia and Apple have sued each other for patent infringement technology. As was stated on this blog several weeks ago, this fiasco could drag on for eons without a final resolution coming to fruition. The reason? Because politicians and those in the corporate community don’t want to touch this mess. Don’t be surprised if this whole legal scandal dies out and is never mentioned again long before 2012 comes around. As is usual in these cases, money will be exchanged quietly, patent licensing will be agreed upon and some deals struck in the basement of some…
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Regulation Issues for Google in South Korea
It appears that the South Korean Government is a little peeved at Google. (What is it with Google and the Asian market anyway?) The regulatory body in South Korea has yet to approve the 4000 or so games available to Android users in the country. Google has apparently received notice, but it remains unclear regarding what they need to do exactly in order to get into the good graces of the Korean Government. In any case, how the heck this so called regulatory office hopes to approve and rate 4000 different games in a short period of time is beyond me. In addition, it seems that South Korea didn’t realize that Android is an open platform and ‘open’ means you take the bad with the good. This will probably be solved without much of a kerfuffle however and without the…
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