Back in April 2011, Joe Belfiore, Director of the Windows Phone program
 and Android browser on Samsung’s Nexus S by running HTML5 speed reading demo.
In that test, Internet Explorer 9 mobile with hardware acceleration support had surprised us by blowing away Mobile Safari and Android browser in the performance test.
, which is one of the latest Windows Phone. So YouTube user with the handle 359gsm has compared an iPhone 4S running iOS 5 (more…)

Few days back, Trevor Eckhart of Connecticut revealed that many Android, BlackBerry and Nokia phones come bundled with software called IQRD developed by a company called Carrier IQ that secretly logs everything a user does on the mobile phone.
The creepy thing is that Eckhart found the software logging even personal information such as text messages and web searches, which has raised serious privacy concerns.
“gathering information off the (more…)

With all of the lawsuits that Apple has going, most of us have assumed that their patent policy is very territorial. The Verge has us rethinking that assumption, as they’ve pointed out that Apple has licensed its iOS scrolling patent to Nokia and IBM, and even offered it to Samsung.
Up to now, the general assumption about Apple was that it’s very territorial about its patents, especially ones concerned with “fundamental”
functionality/aesthetics, (more…)

Nokia today announced the first two smartphones based on Windows Phone 7.5 – Lumia 800 and Lumia 710.
back in February 2011, where Nokia decided to ditch its Symbian platform and instead adopt Windows Phone as its 
.
According to Nokia, Lumia 800 features:
head-turning design, vivid colors (cyan, magenta and black) and the best social and Internet performance, with one-touch social network access, easy grouping of contacts, integrated communication (more…)

when the iPhone first launched. The Finland based company’s complacence has been the reason of its decline, which showed in its
. The company posted losses of nearly $700 million and almost every sector witnessed a decline. With these results,
 achieved an important landmark of being the world’s top smartphone vendor.
Last quarter Nokia’s smartphone shipments went down by 34% to 16.7 million smartphone units compared to Apple ‘s 20.3 million
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Nokia and Microsoft have just announced a strategic partnership, where Nokia plans to ditch its Symbian platform and instead adopt Windows Phone as its
.
Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop and Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer revealed the news in an open letter.
• Nokia will adopt Windows Phone as its primary smartphone strategy, innovating on top of the platform in areas such as imaging, where Nokia is a market leader.
• Nokia will help drive (more…)

In the latest episode of the continuing saga of the long drawn legal battles between Nokia and Apple , the former has sued Apple in Europe for infringing upon 13 of its patents. The suits have been filed in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands and each one of them relate to 13 different patents that Nokia says Apple has infringed upon and have been used in many of its popular products.
This, combined with Nokia’s earlier lawsuits takes (more…)

Not surprisingly, that didn’t go down too well with Apple ’s competitors.
for drawing them into the antenna issue.
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Apple has updated its website to show how Motorola’s Droid X and Nokia N97 mini lose signal strength when you grip them in a certain way.
In case of Motorola Droid X, the location of internal antenna is at the bottom.
In weak signal areas, if you grip Motorola Droid X as seen above then it may negatively affect signal (more…)

At the press conference, Steve Jobs explained that they’ve got to the heart of the problem, and that is smartphone have weak spots, which was a challenge not just for Apple but also for the entire mobile industry.
Not surprisingly, this hasn’t gone down too well with Apple ’s competitors. RIM, Nokia, HTC and Motorola have fired back at Apple for drawing them into the antenna issue.
Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, RIM’s co-CEOs issued (more…)

Apple has now responded. In a counter-suit filed with the ITC, Apple claims patent violations by the Finland based company and has sought ITC's help in banning the import of their patent-infringing devices to the US market.
This is the second time in as many months when Apple has filed a lawsuit against Nokia. In December last year,
for having infringed upon 13 of their proprietary innovations. In both these instances, the lawsuits have served (more…)