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by Jaime Rivera | August 8, 2012 2:17 PMRead OnAs I read the news yesterday about how Acer's CEO, JT Wang is warning Microsoft to think twice about their Surface project, I'll admit I was a bit annoyed. I'm still trying to understand why Acer is so worried. I wish I could say that competing against Microsoft is like competing against another OEM, but to Acer's advantage, Microsoft doesn't have the same level of experience in industrial design, manufacturing and distribution as say, HP for example. I honestly don't blame Microsoft for their approach. Very few OEMs were interested in selling Windows RT, and it only made sense that if ...
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by Michael Fisher | July 20, 2012 10:51 AMRead OnFrom ultramodern trailblazer in the late '90s, to common communicator in the mid-'00s, to symbol of the marginalized "dumbphone" today, flip and clamshell phones have undergone quite the status shift over the last two decades. I've talked before about how awesome the flip form factor was and how much I miss it, and it turns out I'm not alone. Lots of commenters showed up at the end of that piece to share their fondness for the clamshell phones of old, and recently editor-in-chief Brandon Miniman suggested we take a quick look at some of the most well-known, and some of the more obscure, ...
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by Michael Fisher | July 12, 2012 6:00 PMRead OnMy phone is awesome, okay? We can't go forward without your whole-hearted agreement with this basic fact. Of course, you need more information. You have to know more about what phone I'm carrying, so you can agree or disagree (it's probably the latter, because this is the internet). I mean, whatever. I'll tell you; it's fine. I'm carrying a Samsung Galaxy S III. But that's not the point. You should understand just how much it's not the point. Yes, it's Samsung's latest Android flagship. Yes, it's got a huge display and a ton of features other OEMs haven't even thought of. Yes, it's packing ...
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by Michael Fisher | July 3, 2012 12:24 PMRead OnUbiquity is a great word. In addition to sounding just cool enough to bump your perceived intelligence by a few points without getting too pretentious about it, it's a positive term. It signifies potential. If something's referred to as "ubiquitous," generally it's referring to something useful, something provided in abundance. The wireless carrier offers nearly ubiquitous LTE coverage would be nice to hear someday. Free WiFi is almost ubiquitous in some cities is a truth, and one that saved me a lot of trouble this weekend when my mobile hotspot failed. Ubiquity is a good thing. Most of ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | July 1, 2012 3:49 AMRead OnA mobile phone's main characteristics, by definition, are the ability to make and receive phone calls as well as exchange text messages. A smartphone should be a phone that has the ability to run applications but these days it seems to be the other way around: a mobile computer that can also do voice calls. A recent O2 study shows that smartphone owners have at least four more important things to do on their smartphones than to place calls. According to the findings, people are using their smartphones for at least two hours every day, out of which more than half of that time is dedicated ...
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by Michael Fisher | May 25, 2012 4:23 PMRead OnWe've reached that point, folks. The battle for the title of "world's slimmest smartphone" is down to fights over hundredths of a millimeter- the internationally-recognized sign of a fight no one cares about anymore. In the past six months, phone makers Motorola, Huawei, and Oppo have all made the "thinnest" claim at some point. Today, Huawei's Ascend P1 S is still lording the lofty title of most-svelte over its rivals, with a thickness measurement of 6.68mm. That's just a little ways from the DROID RAZR's 7.1mm, but a far cry from the 13.9mm original RAZR that kicked off this whole ...
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