Rogers Nokia Lumia 900 Launching in April, HTC Made Some Noise At MWC & Intel Announces New Processors and Partnerships

Rogers Nokia Lumia 900 Launching in April
Want even more Nokia Lumia 900 news? Checking out the Nokia Mobile World Congress 2012 press conference keynote gives a bit more insight into when the LTE Windows Phone device will launch. Rogers said sometime “this Spring”, but Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop, who’s also a Canadian, narrows down the date.
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Quietly Brilliant, But HTC Sure Made Some Noise At MWC
Most notably, we have the freshly announced One series which comprises three different phones: the One X, One S, and One V. (More on those later, of course.) HTC has already stated that it would be focusing on more hero devices, rather than pushing out experimental failures like the HTC Status.
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Intel Announces New Processors and Partnerships
Intel on Monday detailed a number new products and partnerships during the company’s Mobile World Congress press event. “We are very pleased to add new, important customers and capabilities to our phone offerings today. We remain focused on delivering exciting new features and outstanding performance to smartphone customers around the world.” In addition to Intel’s Atom Z2460 “Medfield” processor, the company announced the Atom Z2580 CPU that will feature an advanced multi-mode LTE/3G/2G solution and will double the performance of the Z2640.
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Carrier IQ to Let Consumers See Analytics Data
Carrier IQ today announced an extension of its IQ Care service that will ultimately allow consumers to gain better insight into their own usage and device habits. Technically, the revised version of IQ Care is being made so that wireless network operators can offer the analytical insight to wireless customers through their online account tools. The service will become available in the second quarter of 2012.
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There Will Be More Smartphones Than Humans on the Planet, TELUS “Various locations” Have Reported Fake iPhones & Google Wallet Gets Prepaid Security Fix

There Will Be More Smartphones Than Humans on the Planet by Year’s End
A prediction for the future of smartphone growth makes some bold projections: By the end of this year, there could be more smartphones on the planet than humans, and by 2016 there could be 10 billion smartphones. That’s 1.4 mobile devices per capita.
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TELUS Doc Says That “Various locations” Have Reported Fake iPhones Are Being Returned
There seems to be some funny business happening over at TELUS. Some fishy customers have taken it upon themselves to cash in on the buyer’s remorse policy and return fake iPhones. There’s no word on how many have been returned, but the internal doc states that “various locations” have been hit.
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Google Wallet Gets Prepaid Security Fix, but ‘Brute-Force’ Issue Still Hangs in the Air
Google says it’s fixed a Wallet security flaw that potentially allowed a phone thief to spend a user’s prepaid balance. The ability to provision new prepaid cards had been suspended pending the update, but has now been restored. Things aren’t quite back to normal in the Big G’s world of mobile money, however. Users still find themselves caught between two competing arguments over an entirely different vulnerability, which involves a ‘brute-force’ attack on rooted devices.
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Cisco: Mobile Connections to Hit 10 Billion by 2016
Global mobile data traffic is expected to increase 18-fold over the next five years to 10.8 exabytes per month according to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index Forecast (VNI). Cloud traffic is expected to account for 71%, or 7.6 exabytes per month, of total mobile data traffic by 2016. In 2011, cloud traffic accounted for only 45% of mobile data traffic, or 269 petabytes per month.
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Samsung Canada Giving Away 5 Galaxy Notes, iPhone 4S Launch Sent Apple Store Sales Skyrocketing & Nokia Accidentally Reveals White Lumia 900

Samsung Canada Giving Away 5 Galaxy Notes
Samsung is gearing up for the big Canadian Galaxy Note launch on February 14th – the beast of a phone/tablet will be available from TELUS, Bell and Rogers. To celebrate this momentous occasion Samsung has decided to throw a contest together and giveaway 5 Notes.
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Nokia Accidentally Reveals White Lumia 900
Nokia accidentally revealed a white Lumia 900. The picture was soon lifted from Nokia’s Conversations blog, but it remains on its Facebook page, flashing an exposed micro-USB port and front-facing camera that identifies this snow-white slab as the Lumia 900 kind.
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iPhone 4S Launch Sent Apple Store Sales Skyrocketing
Apple Stores are often busy and with the release of new iPhones and iPads, Apple’s retail locations become bombarded with waves of excited customers. According to Needham & Company analyst Charlie Wolf, the launch of the iPhone 4S sent Apple Store sales to record heights during the holiday quarter. In the fourth quarter of 2011, revenue per store reached $17.08 million, a 42.6% increase over the same quarter in 2010.
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Halliburton Dumps RIM, Chooses iPhones For 4,500 Employees
To say that RIM has had a tough time these past few months is an understatement, and today’s news probably won’t help raise the morale around Waterloo. According to AppleInsider, oilfield services giant Halliburton will soon be migrating their BlackBerry-toting workforce to run exclusively on a new fleet of iPhones.
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