As I wrote earlier this year, Android battery life can be atrocious. Most of the Android-powered phones I’ve tried end up dead overnight if they’re not left on a charger, and Android tablets are just as bad. I can understand phones having power issues, what with all their syncing and pinging and fetching. But tablets …
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October, 2011
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26 October
Nokia debuts Lumia 800, 710, first Windows Phone handsets
Today, Nokia unveiled its first Windows Phone handsets, the Nokia Lumia 800 and Lumia 710. Nokia Lumia 800 Calling it the “first real Windows Phone,” Nokia said it designed the Lumia 800 from the inside out and features a durable polycarbonate plastic body with a curved 3.7-inch ClearBack AMOLED (480×800 pixels) touch screen. It’s powered by a 1.4GHz Qualcomm MSM8255 …
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26 October
RIM hit with lawsuit over BlackBerry outage
Research In Motion is facing a possible class action lawsuit in Canada over the global outage that struck BlackBerry customers last month. The suit (PDF), which seeks class action status, was filed yesterday in Quebec Superior Court “on behalf of individuals who have BlackBerry smartphones and who pay for a monthly data plan but were unable to access their email, …
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26 October
Nokia Lumia 800 hands
SUNNYVALE, Calif.–Mere hours after Nokia launched the Lumia 800 and its lower-end sibling, the Lumia 710, in London, we headed on over to the Nokia offices in Sunnyvale, Calif., to get a hands-on look at the new devices for ourselves. (Read Jessica Dolcourt’s take on the Nokia Lumia 710 here.) Check out CNET UK’s full review of the Nokia Lumia …
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26 October
Nokia Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 spotted
Nokia World has only just started, but here’s some evidence of what we’re about to see. We already knew about the Nokia Lumia 800 (the one that’s also shown up under the guise Searay, and just Nokia 800), and the Lumia 710 looks like the one previously codenamed Sabre. Pocketnow grabbed the snap, which looks to be from a promotional …
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26 October
Nokia Lumia 800 vs. Nokia N9
One of the first things we noticed about the Nokia Lumia 800 is that it looks strikingly like the Nokia N9, which runs Nokia’s soon-to-be-extinct MeeGo OS. Indeed, it has a similar unibody polycarbonite shell along with the same curved AMOLED display. But on probing further, we found that the differences between the two go far beyond just operating systems. …
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26 October
Huawei first with dual
Huawei today revealed it will be the first to launch a dual-SIM Android-powered smartphone in Australia, with the Huawei Deuce hitting stores with an RRP of AU$249. On the taskbar of the Deuce in this image you can see the signal for both SIMs. (Credit: Huawei) Not affiliating the Deuce with any Aussie telco, the handset will be available through …
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26 October
Sprint loss narrows as customer growth doubles
Sprint Nextel posted a narrower third-quarter loss as customer growth improved ahead of the company getting the Apple iPhone. The country’s third-largest wireless provider reported a third-quarter loss of $301 million, or 10 cents a share, narrower than its year-earlier loss of $911 million, or 30 cents a share. Revenue rose 2 percent to $8.33 billion. Wall Street analysts, on …
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26 October
LG swings to a loss as TV, phone sales slump
LG Electronics swung to a loss in the third quarter as its television and handset businesses suffered a sharp decline in sales. LG reported a third-quarter loss of 414 billion Korean won ($366 million), compared with a year-earlier loss of 8 billion Korean won. Revenue fell 4 percent to 13.4 trillion Korean won ($11.8 billion). The chief culprits came from …
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26 October
Nokia Lumia 800 and 710 price and release dates confirmed
Good news and bad news: the Nokia Lumia 800 is out now, but the more affordable Nokia Lumia 710 isn’t hitting shops until next year. The Lumia 800 and 710, Nokia’s first smart phones powered by Microsoft’s Windows Phone software, were announced today at the Nokia World event in London. The hotly anticipated Lumia 800 is on sale today, to …
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