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Apple sues HTC over 20 patents… war is on?

By Doug Groves | Published: March 2, 2010
The news broke this morning that Apple is suing smart phone manufacturer HTC, maker of  many popular Google Android and Windows Mobile devices.  In their 700 plus page ITC filing, Apple lists a whole slew of specific HTC devices running both operating systems, including the Nexus One, HD2, Touch Pro, Hero, Touch Diamond, Touch Pro2, [...]
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WindowsPhone – what Microsoft needs to do at Mobile World Congress

By Doug Groves | Published: February 12, 2010
We rarely delve into outright speculation here at rgbHeadquarters, but over the past month or two, there have been a number of rumours regarding what is going to be a major update to the Windows Mobile platform with version 7, and the rebranding to Windows Phone. With Mobile World Congress starting next week, those rumours [...]
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LG IQ Windows Phone coming to Telus soon, pictures leaked

By drsquid | Published: November 25, 2009
A few weeks ago a Best Buy Mobile flyer (see the flyer image by clicking more below) showed a mysterious LG handset called the IQ. This mystery was quickly solved when it was discovered that this was the HSPA Windows Mobile ‘Monaco’ QWERTY slider, previously rumored to be coming to AT&T in the US. Today [...]
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Smart Phone OS market growth: RIM the winner

By Doug Groves | Published: November 10, 2009
Canalys, which is an independent technology analyst group, has released its latest numbers on the global smart phone market, and there’s some interesting stuff in there.  Overall smart phone growth was 4%, with the largest regional growth was 26% in APAC (East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australasia and Oceania), and North America saw a [...]
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Bell / Telus HSPA Network launches

By Doug Groves | Published: November 4, 2009
It’s been a long time coming, but as we covered before, the new high speed wireless network from Bell and Telus officially launches today.  The HSPA+ network  supports speeds up to 42Mbit down and 22Mbit up, although the fastest phones being launched support 7.2Mbit.  It’s a new standard, which means it’s not backwards compatible with [...]
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Universal Translator? Not quite, but close…

By Doug Groves | Published: October 13, 2009
Every year, Tokyo plays host to CEATEC (Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies), Japan’s largest IT and electronics trade show. The video above shows off the Toshiba TG01 (a Windows Phone running the recently released 6.5 OS) and Toshiba’s own translation software. This isn’t your dads pocket translator though, as you merely speak a [...]
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HTC Leo aka HD2 Coming To North America

By Doug Groves | Published: October 6, 2009
The long-rumoured HTC’s latest flagship phone, the  Leo (aka HD2), has finally been confirmed by the company, and the list of specs are nothing to sneeze at.  There have been a couple of reasons why it wasn’t brought up here before.  One is the fact that we’re not big on hollow rumours (that’s why you [...]
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Flash 10.1 Update announced for (almost) everything

By Doug Groves | Published: October 5, 2009
As the above video demonstrates, it looks like hardware acceleration for Flash video and websites is finally about to become a reality.  Adobe announced this week that the Flash 10.1 beta will support a number of mobile platforms, including Nvidia’s ION and Tegra chipsets as well as OMAP4 and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor. The ION GPU provides [...]
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Mobile Flash Coming This Fall

By Doug Groves | Published: June 24, 2009
In it’s Q2 2009 earnings presentation, Adobe mentions that Flash 10 for smartphones should hit beta October of this year.  This should mean a better quality (or, finally, the capability) of most smartphones from Nokia, Microsoft, Palm and Google amongst others to play robust Flash content on the go.  We’re assuming the beta will hit [...]
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Windows Mobile 7 hardware specs?

By Doug Groves | Published: May 12, 2009
We don’t engage in too much speculation here at rgbFilter headquarters (all right we do, we don’t generally post about it though), but over the past few months, there’s been a lot of talk about Microsoft’s Project Pink, which could be a Zune phone, or a software/services platform for future Windows Mobile devices.  Heck, some [...]
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Windows Mobile 6.5 Release Date May 11th?

By Doug Groves | Published: April 17, 2009
Windows Mobile 6.5 was announced earlier this year at Mobile World Congress. At that point in time, the expected release date was estimated to be either late summer or early fall of 2009, with the first devices to follow soon after. According to the Windows Mobile Developers blog the long awaited update the the mobile [...]
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Windows Mobile Marketplace Info Updated

By Doug Groves | Published: March 31, 2009
After recent announcements regarding Microsoft entering the mobile app shopping fray with their Marketplace, some details are starting to come out, including: buy via phone or full web site 24 hours full refund on returns. carrier specific sub stores certified compatibility with particular devices On the developer side, Microsoft is still touting full transparency in the approval process.  Probably [...]
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