Over the past few months, Apple, Nokia, RIM and Motorola have all been getting very worked up over something rather boring: SIM cards. After Apple’s attempt to capture the market, there’s finally a new proposed design — which might actually find its way into your next phone.
We’re seeing more and more high-end smartphones enter the market, including the just announced Samsung Galaxy S III. But which of the super phones coming soon will be your next handset? Here’s how these upcoming beasts compare.
According to Business Insider, Google has bigger plans for Motorola than just hoarding Moto’s patents. BI is saying Google now wants to use Motorola’s team to create its own Google smartphones and tablets, meaning Google doesn’t just want to make another Nexus One, it wants to make its own phone. That would be a very, very bad idea.
Google could be on the brink of confirming suspicions that it only bought Motorola for its 17,000 patents. The $US12.5 billion acquisition is barely official — Justice Department approval came in February — but Google is reportedly looking to pawn off the hardware division.
It feels like phones that do much more than take calls have been around forever, but it’s still an astonishingly young industry. A case in point: the Motorola ROKR E1, the world’s first mobile phone “with iTunes”. That was meant to be a seriously hot selling point only seven years ago.
Last week we reported that Nokia, Motorola and RIM were squaring up to Apple over a disagreement about the future of nano-SIM cards. Now, Apple is proposing that its patented design could be used for free, by anyone — dependent on one, rather large, condition.
Tablets are a hot property right now, but which tablet should you buy? We’ve assembled the specifications for 28 different tablets so you can compare. Update: Now with the new iPad specifications.
