Motorola

Top Features of the Moto X

Moto X remains as one of the most popular devices launched recently. The device has got a price tag higher than Moto G but it’s totally justified considering its high end specifications. Moto X does contain some differentiating features that offer a great deal of utility to the smartphone user. To understand the Moto X … Read more →

Google Nexus 5 Vs Moto G: Taking on the Mighty

Budget smartphones are the latest trend in the smartphone industry. However, not many devices have got the desired design and build quality. Also, until recently the budget smartphones used to be slow and laggy and lacked certain desirable features. However, all the smartphone manufacturers have realized the importance of budget smartphones in determining their success. … Read more →

Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini Vs. Motorola Droid Mini

If big lustrous screens don’t fascinate you anymore and you are looking for small, sleek yet powerful devices then you must consider two great Mini versions including Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini and Motorola Droid Mini. The “big brothers” of these devices are already a huge hit in the market. These devices even though are smaller … Read more →

Five Android Phones Competition

Lots of Androids are hitting the market every now and then. Thus, many gadget lovers are getting confused which one is the best out of them. With exceptional features to support, such as huge display, faster networking, easy navigation, best iOS device and hard built body materials, each phone is unique on its own. A … Read more →

3 Android competitors for the iPad

Apple is dominating the tablet market with iPad 1 and iPad 2 since ever. Actually there was no real tablet market before the release of iPad 1. The sudden success of the iPad “forced” many other companies to get into the process of developing their own tablet and try to challenge Apple. Among the strongest … Read more →

A Look At the Upcoming Android 3.0 Honeycomb Tablets

It’s no secret that many insiders have forecast that 2011 will be the year of the tablet. Where their opinions may differ, however, is in predicting which tablet will outperform the others in what is shaping up to be a highly competitive market. A panoply of manufacturers are set to release Android 3.0 Honeycomb devices … Read more →

Smartphone reliability: iPhone 4 with fewest failures, but…

  A new study conducted by SquareTrade after analyzing failure rates of over 5,000 smartphones covered by SquareTrade Care Plans, shows that Apple’s iPhone 4 has the fewest failures with 2.1% failures within its first year. Below Apple you find Motorola with 2.3% and HTC with 3.7%. Another interesting observation is that when it comes … Read more →

BlackBerry API Gears Up For Mobile Shopping

With the imminent arrival of the new Motorola ES400, RIM is already adding EDA-like capabilities to its Blackberry phones. When the BlackBerry 6 mobile operating system was released with the BlackBerry Torch 9800, it already supported an API for barcode scanning, one of the main features of a typical EDA. An API or Application Programming … Read more →

iSuppli: Android to Outstrip iPhone in 2012

More Android-based smartphones were sold in Q1 2010 than iPhones, on the North American market. A trend, which according to iSuppli, will continue so we’ll see more Android smartphones in 2012 than iPhone OS. In 2012, iSuppli believes that Android will be on 75 million smartphones and Apple’s iOS on 62 million devices. Obviously Android … Read more →

Google’s Nexus One Doesn’t Sell

The “usual way” of selling mobile phones in the US is through the ntwork providers along with a contract of up to 2 years. Google went in a completely other direction when selling their Nexus One phone online at google.com/phone instead of using the network providers to sell it. Flurry Analytics estimates a total sale … Read more →

10 Unknown Tech Heroes That You Would Not Have Been Without

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You know the names Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and other celebrities in the IT industry. None of these IT-celebrities would be making a name if it were not for a bunch of rather unknown tech heroes who made the really big discoveries.

Swedish PC World has compiled a list of the ten largest technology heroes in the IT industry. How many have you heard of before?

  1. Marty Cooper
    As an employee at Motorola, Marty Cooper in 1973 filed a patent application for a radio telephone system. He was also the first person who ever made a telephone call to a mobile phone. Cooper said that he got the inspiration for the invention from Star Trek… how cool is that!
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  2. Mike Lazaridis
    Mike Lazaridis moved to Canada from Turkey when he was five years old. When he was 12 years old, he won a prize for having read all the books in science in their local library. In 1984 he jumped to his studies and started the company “Research in Motion” (RIM), which later developed the mobile phone Blackberry.
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  3. Tony Fadell
    Fadell had an idea and tried to sell it in different places, eventually he became employed at Apple. In 2001 Apple launched its first iPod, which quickly became a success worldwide. Fadells name is mentioned often when Apple prefers to keep the spotlight on another person within the company. Fadell was promoted to Senior Vice President of Apple’s iPod division in 2006 but stepped down in 2008 to work as an adviser for Steve Jobs.
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