In the old days, you bought your mobile phone from a telecommunications company and it was made by a company that specialised in making phones. It was all neat and self-contained. And for the most part, it worked and worked well. However, smartphones have irreversibly shifted the goalposts with computer companies now jumping into the [...]
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OPINION: The reported response of Apple CEO Steve Jobs to complaints regarding the company’s new iPhone 4 and its troubled antenna design are a surprising stumble from a company that have had several years of sure-footed success. But while the company has pretty much had the open-field running in the smartphone market thanks to its [...]
With the recent news that the Indian Government picked up $US15billion for the auction of the next patch of its 3G telephony spectrum, vendors are wasting no time releasing new phones onto the market. With no less than three major releases about to hit the market, smartphone use is no doubt about to pick up [...]
US telecommunications giant AT&T is about to increase the pain for consumers who pick up or renew an iPhone contract and wish to terminate it early. In an open letter posted on its website, the company announced that any customer who picks up a smartphone (including the Apple iPhone) in a contract after June 1 [...]