Africa has become a battleground for low-to-mid-range smartphones following high-profile launches of products from leading manufacturers in the last two months. In Kenya last month, Safaricom, the region's largest mobile carrier, launched ...
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Microsoft is collaborating with the Kenyan government and a local Internet service provider to provide broadband access using TV white spaces and solar-powered base stations, as part of a long-term strategy to spread mobile telephony and ...
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Microsoft has announced that it is collaborating with the Kenyan government and a local Internet service provider to provide broadband access using TV white spaces and solar-powered base stations. The move comes as part of a long-term ...
Mobile phone operator Three UK has confirmed that it will not charge a premium for its LTE high-speed mobile network. Three's announcement contrasts sharply with the payment plans offered by Everything Everywhere's (EE) Orange and T-Mobile ...
Nokia last week began rolling out a Windows Phone 7.8 updated for its Lumia smartphones. The mobile phone manufacturer is gradually releasing Windows Phone 7.8 for the Lumia 510, 610, 710, 800 and 900 over the course of February. Users ...
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The wait was worthwhile: The long-delayed BlackBerry Z10 smart phone is sleek in design and brims with intriguing features, including arguably the smartest phone keyboard ever. Paired with the new BlackBerry 10 operating system, with its ...
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Firm's mobile chipset shipments rose 17% during the quarter to 182 million. Qualcomm has reported a 29% rise in its revenues during the first quarter of 2013 to $6.02bn. The company's Q1 profit rose 36% to $1.91bn, while its operating ...
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Some of today's most sophisticated smart phones include camera features that resolve age-old problems. One perennial challenge, for example, is taking a group photo in which everyone looks equally good. The Samsung Galaxy Note 2, LG ...
The ATIV Odyssey, Samsung's first Windows Phone 8 device ($50 on Verizon with a two-year contract) is a basic model, with a 4-inch Super AMOLED touch-screen display, a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, a 1.2-megapixel front-facing camera, and a ...
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Nokia plans to roll out in the first quarter of this year its Nokia Music+, a new subscription-based upgrade to its free-to-stream mobile music service. The paid service will offer unlimited downloads of sets of tunes or "Mixes" for ...
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Nokia's net costs for adopting Windows Phone as its smartphone operating system platform are set to rocket as Microsoft's "platform support payments" to Nokia start to decline, while Lumia sales have failed to ramp up sufficiently to cover ...
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Nokia is embracing the 3D printing community by releasing files that will let smartphone users create their own custom shells. Owners of its Lumia 820 smartphone will be the first to have the opportunity, the company said in a blog post ...
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Nokia will release files containing 3D templates, phone case specifications, recommended materials and best practices in a bid to support 3D printing of its phone cases. The firm claims it will become the first big telecoms company to ...
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Vendors are showing off a slew of wireless charging products at the CES show here, products that range from a Toyota automobile armrest built to charge enabled smartphones to multi-phone charging pads to tablet chargers. In all, 34 smart ...
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Verizon Wireless and Nokia announced the upcoming availability of the Nokia Lumia 822 - a powerful Windows Phone 8 smartphone exclusive to Verizon Wireless. With a unique design, enhanced camera, world class maps with turn-by-turn ...
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