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How the Motorola Atrix 4G is your Pocket Cloud (and Microsoft’s nightmare)

Posted January 6, 2011 by Mike Evans

The Motorola Atrix 4G is the future of smartphones, tablets, the Web, PCs and even Microsoft, all in one amazing device.
That’s a bold statement, but you only need to see what the Atrix 4G can do to see how…

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Nokia Windows Phone 7 device edges a step closer

Posted November 19, 2010 by Mike Evans

Recently I’ve compared the best Android phones of 2010 and the best Windows Phone 7 devices (and yes, next week I’ll be announcing the best smartphone of 2010 as well – hey, it’s that time of year!), and one interesting…

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LG & Nokia CEOs ousted, while HTC continues to shine: why?

Posted September 18, 2010 by Mike Evans

Fresh off the back of Nokia’s CEO being given the push comes news that LG’s CEO, Nam Yong, has also been given the old heave-ho, as the company posted a loss from its mobile division of $100 million for the…

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Where it all went wrong for Nokia

Posted September 10, 2010 by Mike Evans

With Nokia getting a new CEO, it’s interesting to see where it all went wrong for the Finnish giant. Clearly, their problems began with the launch of the iPhone back in 2007. At a stroke, the iPhone changed the entire…

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Samsung crowns Android as the King of mobile

Posted September 4, 2010 by Mike Evans

Samsung was relatively late to the Android party, letting HTC, Motorola and Sony Ericsson take the plaudits for the top Android phones while it cautiously dipped its toe into the Android world with a rather luke-warm Android phone in the…

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NITDroid: Nokia’s worst nightmare suddenly becomes real

Posted August 28, 2010 by Mike Evans

I love the fact that modern smartphones can be moulded to the whim of the customer, no matter what the manufacturer’s original intentions. Take, for example, the HTC HD2, which was originally released with Windows Mobile 6.5.
It didn’t take…

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5 ways Google’s App Inventor for Android will change mobile forever

Posted July 13, 2010 by Mike Evans

Google has announced App Inventor for Android, a brand new Web-based app that will not only fundamentally change the way mobile phones are used and perceived for years to come, it’ll also completely transform Computer Science.
Before you say “Whoa,…

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Microsoft’s mobile strategy in chaos

Posted July 3, 2010 by Mike Evans

Wow! I’ve already written about the demise of the Microsoft Kin, describing it as mobile meltdown. But the true story behind its premature death – of infighting, political intrigue, and pure corporate misalignment with the real world – is simply…

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Nokia support implodes as Symbian-Guru closes

Posted July 2, 2010 by Mike Evans

You can tell how close a tech company is to the bleeding edge of technology and consumer love by the number of fan boys it has. Apple, of course, has had them in spades for years, although some of them…

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Nokia gives up competing against the iPhone

Posted June 28, 2010 by Mike Evans

Nokia has yet to release what could be considered an iPhone killer. Even now, three years after the original iPhone was launched, Nokia’s smartphones do not offer the overall user experience of the iPhone or even, arguably, the plethora of…

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Apple sues HTC, threatens the whole smartphone market

Posted March 2, 2010 by Mike Evans

Back in 2001, Microsoft laid siege to the Web. Thanks to its dominant desktop position, it dominated the browser market with IE6 and ultimately killed off its competitors. The result was years of stagnation, a willful disregard of Web standards,…

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TMobile G1 with Android 2.1
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Turbo-charge your T-Mobile G1 with Android 2.1

Posted March 1, 2010 by Mike Evans

If you’ve got a T-Mobile G1, the first ever Android phone, you might be a bit envious fo all the new Android wizzardry crammed into Android 2.1 phones such as the Google Nexus One and Motorola Milestone.
The G1 only…

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