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HTC Legend squeezed into a G1

Posted April 1, 2010 by Mike Evans

The T-Mobile G1 has to be one of the of the most versatile mobile phones ever to be released. Although it’s now nearly two years old, Google’s first ever Android phone has been hacked and modded like no other phone…

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Google stands up to Apple, backs HTC and Android

Posted March 3, 2010 by admin

With Apple attempting to sue the pants off HTC and in the process starve the mobile Web from any form of competition, innovation, and, perish the thought – choice, Google has waded into the battle by backing its Android OS…

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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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New Nokia phones to use Snapdragon CPUs

Posted February 17, 2010 by Mike Evans

Nokia fans have been sorely disappointed this week as a raft of news from other manufacturers has come streaming out of Barcelona, whilst all Nokia had to talk about was their forthcoming alliance with Intel with the Meego platform.
Fear…

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How much Android news can you cope with?

Posted February 9, 2010 by Mike Evans

Finally, we have a tonne of other Android news on unofficial Android day, including:
Inbrics will be launching the Inbrics M1 at MWC 2010 next week. The M1 is a 3.7″ Android phone with slide out keyboard, and what Inbrics…

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The night before the iPhone 4

Posted January 26, 2010 by Mike Evans

This year, we’ve been treated to the Google Nexus One, HTC Supersonic, Nokia X6 (out today), Sony Ericsson Vivaz and X10, and a pair of Palms, to name just some of the highlights.
And it’s still only January!
I say…

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No Spotify app for Maemo leaves N900 owners distraught

Posted January 18, 2010 by Mike Evans

Spotify have confirmed they have no intention of developing a Spotify app on the Maemo platform. This is bad news for owners of the Nokia N900, and shows one of the dangers of choosing a phone with a limited market…

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Nokia drops Symbian for its N-Series phones

Posted November 18, 2009 by Mike Evans

Nokia will drop Symbian on its top-end N-Series phones in favour of Maemo – that’s the latest rumour flying around the tech blogosphere after a marketing manager at a Nokia N900 meet-up said yesterday that Symbian “…would not be used…

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Nokia’s video of the phones of 2015 already out of date

Posted November 14, 2009 by Mike Evans

Nokia has released a video showing what it sees the mobile phone of 2015 will be like. It won’t be like this pic – that’s just a concept phone from last year – but it will be shiny, sleek and…

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Nokia’s new Maemo teaser video leaves Symbian future uncertain

Posted November 13, 2009 by Mike Evans

Nokia has released a new teaser video of its Maemo mobile operating system. Maemo is the software that powers the Nokia N900, which has just been released. I saw a preview of the N900 a few months ago, and was…

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Garmin working on Android phone

Posted November 8, 2009 by Mike Evans

Garmin have announced that they’re working on an Android-based GPS smartphone for 2010.
Garmin entered the mobile phone market a while back with its much-delayed Nuvifone. Unfortunately, the delay meant that Garmin missed the boat somewhat with GPS phones, with…

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MobileMentalism now turbo-charged!

Posted October 25, 2009 by admin

I’m pleased to announce that MobileMentalism is now sitting nicely in a brand new home. After much problems over the past month or so, the site has moved to a new server. More powerful and more reliable, so no more…

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