Sadly, there is more bad news afoot my American friends. Recently, we learned that the Samsung Galaxy S II – one of the hottest Android phones to date – would be hitting three Canadian carriers in July. How? Bell, Virgin Mobile and SaskTel told us so. And today, we have our first release date. An [...]
Like I’ve said before, HP has bet quite a bit on the release of the TouchPad, its webOS Tablet that features what HP hypes as the beginning of a wave of devices that will see some webOS goodness in the future. The early reviews said lots of good things but the focus so far as [...]
Before today, we had a pretty good idea about what the Motorola Droid 3 would be bringing to the table when it arrives on Verizon, possibly as soon as July 7th. Today, we’ve got confirmation on the specifications that are going to make up Verizon’s third incarnation of their QWERTY design Droid. The information comes [...]
One of RIM’s upcoming smartphones, the BlackBerry Curve 9360 aka the BlackBerry Apollo, has shown up again in the wild today showing off its stuff in a series of spy shots that give us an extremely clear look at its form factor. If you recall, the Curve 9360 is RIM’s next-generation Curve device and it’s [...]
At CTIA 2011, Samsung showed us not one but two different tablets. One of those tablets, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 was recently released to the market and a 4G LTE version for Verizon is currently up for pre-order. The other, the smaller Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9, has been virtually silent since we went hands-on. [...]
Exciting news for Android owners as Path, the the social networking slash photo sharing service, has brought its much anticipated Android application to the Android Market today. The application, which is still in beta form, is available for free and brings a host of features to the table even in its primitive form. That list [...]
When popular new Android devices are released, it rarely takes the development community very long to gain root access. We now see that this is no different with the EVO 3D, as the developers at Team Win have announced that they have rooted the phone. Dev agrabren tweeted the news today, declaring “I CAN HAZ [...]
Earlier today, a letter that was purportedly written by a senior executive with BlackBerry maker RIM surfaced on the internet imploring RIM’s co-CEO’s to make changes in order for the company to turn things around. And, as expected, the company has responded to those remarks with an extremely defensive stance that makes you wonder whether [...]
What a long wait it’s been for iPad 2 owners eager to jailbreak their tablets. With the second generation slate having released in March, here it is almost July and there still aren’t any options to set it free. That may be about to change, as the developer who’s been working on the jailbreak tweeted [...]
Update: The source link has now updated their story, stating that the materials inside had nothing to do with a 4G iPhone. It more likely relates to an upcoming campaign to convince customers that a 3G iPhone is better than any 4G phone. Apple tends to take their time adding new technologies. They want to wait until the advances [...]
A short time ago we had heard that Facebook was primed and ready to release its long awaited application for Apple’s tablet, the iPad. Well, it appears that the wait for anxious iPad owners might be over as Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told Reuters that the company is going to be “launching something awesome” [...]
Today was supposed to be the day that Android 2.3 arrived for the HTC ThunderBolt. If you recall, and I am sure many of you do, the rumor pegged today, June 30th, as the day that the glorious Gingerbread update would roll out. It’s now noon here in San Francisco, 3PM on the east coast, [...]
So, I had to run some errands in town today and stopped by Best Buy after grabbing some lunch. Sure enough they had the HP TouchPad on display so that you could check it out. You can’t buy one today, but they’ll take your money and you can claim it tomorrow. But if you aren’t [...]
It’s no secret that RIM has been struggling. The phone they announced at BlackBerry World, the BlackBerry 9900/9930, has been delayed. The BlackBerry PlayBook launched to mediocre reviews and sales of the tablet have been average at best. The company’s workforce has taken a hit and it’s still a ways off from getting its first [...]
If you were playing Doodle Jump on an iPhone 3GS a mere two years ago, you wouldn’t have likely imagined that the DS’ and PSP’s portable gaming dominance would soon be threatened by Apple’s smartphone OS. Yet threatened it was, and one of the games that helped to do this was Infinity Blade. Don’t let [...]
It’s hard to even imagine being an owner of the original Samsung Galaxy Tab right now. Since it’s release we’ve seen several Android tablets hit the shelves with software vastly superior to the Froyo that the Galaxy Tab currently employs. Well, it looks like Samsung is finally read to bring the Galaxy Tab to the [...]
If you’ve been looking for a Windows Phone 7 handset different from all the other Windows Phone 7 handsets, the freshly leaked HTC Eternity is probably going to be right up your alley. We had heard about it back in May but that leak was light on the details. Today though we have a good [...]
Netflix’s release on Android, just like Skype’s release earlier today, has been anything but smooth. It was broken for weeks on the HTC EVO 4G and it’s currently not available for several of the top Android devices on the market. One of those devices is the the HTC EVO 3D which was released last Friday [...]
Skype has gone ahead and released Skype 2.0 for Android with a number of enticing features included in the update. The only problem is, those enticing features are only available to a select number of devices and one of those features is unfortunately video calling, something that many of you have been waiting so long [...]
If you’re not a fan of the new black Google toolbar that is a component of Google+ you can use one of these simple hacks to turn the Google bar back to white or to hide it altogether. These tweaks will also return the sidebar to a standard white and blue color scheme. For more on why this [...]
Life isn’t fair. We all know that. Or at least we should. For Tablet makers you could argue that it is not just unfair, but cruel and unusual punishment. Apple has such an long lead in terms of its iPad in so many categories, it is almost like they need to need to somehow prohibit [...]
The HP TouchPad is a new Tablet from HP which runs the Palm WebOS software that HP hopes will deliver a solid iPad alternative. The first HP TouchPad reviews have gone live and according to early reviewers, while the TouchPad is able to nail some things, the total package isn’t ready to take on the [...]
The owner of webOS announced in an interview that it was still open to the possibility of a tablet running Microsoft’s next-generation Windows 8 platform, though HP is firmly rejecting any notion of a tablet running the rival Android mobile operating system as it has its own in-house webOS platform, which it had acquired with [...]
Touchscreen component suppliers indicate that Amazon may be looking to ship between 1.5 to 2 million of its self-branded Android tablets when the device debuts in September and potentially could ship up to 4 million tablets by the end of 2011. Outside of relatively more affordable WiFi-only Android tablets, like the Asus Eee Pad Transformer [...]
Do you get antsy if you can’t take your smartphone out of your pocket and check in on your digital life? If you’re anything like me, and the college students in a study performed at Kansas State College, the answer is a resounding yes. The study looked at the “Mobile Affinity” we have for our [...]
Acer may be prepping another tablet by the end of the year, this time with a sliding form factor. The company already has a relatively inexpensive Android slate form factor tablet in the form of the Iconia Tab A500, and a 7-inch version in the form of the Iconia Tab A100 is on the way [...]
A version of the Sprint HTC EVO 3D, a 4G smartphone with dual-core 1.2 GHz CPU and a glasses-free qHD 3D display, was spotted going through the FCC as a GSM variant. The 3G CDMA/4G WiMax radio of the Sprint edition has been gutted for a GSM/HSPA+ radio that is compatible with T-Mobile’s 4G network [...]
Google has updated Street View for Google Maps, which allows users to have access to high resolution panoramic images. Now, rather than sitting there with your Android phone trying to decipher where your location is, you can actually immerse yourself into the maps and explore your surroundings. According to Google, ‘New imagery is now available [...]
Smasung is hoping to conquer the mid-range Android smartphone segment, and the company has just announced the Android-powered Conquer 4G WiMax smartphone for Sprint. The more compact-size–and hopefully more affordable nature of the mid-range target–should position the Samsung handset competitively against the smaller HTC EVO Shift 4G, though the latter has a sliding keyboard. The [...]
With HP hoping to license out its webOS mobile platform for other hardware-makers to use on their branded smartphones and tablets, one company that may be interested may be Samsung. If Samsung does in fact choose to license webOS, the Korean manufacturer will effectively have four working mobile operating systems under its belt: Android, Windows [...]
The HTC EVO 3D is Sprint’s latest 4G smartphone and the reviews are starting to roll in. Below is a roundup of what HTC EVO 4G reviews that we’ve enjoyed reading. The HTC EVO 3D is Sprint’s latest flagship phones and definitely worth a look if you’re switching to Sprint or due for an upgrade. Jonathan Geller from [...]
It looks like the mysterious device we saw earlier isn’t the only unannounced Motorola device that we’re going to see emerge today as a Flickr photo unearthed by Pocketnow and taken at or nearby Motorola’s campus in Libertyville, Illinois has revealed a device called the Motorola Droid HD. What is it? Well, beyond the little [...]
Today is the fourth birthday of Apple’s iconic product, the iPhone. On June 29th 2007, Apple launched the iPhone across the United States and arguably changed the mobile landscape forever. Four years and three iPhones later, the iPhone is still as relevant as ever with millions of owners across the world. And whether you love [...]
Gizmodo has posted a nifty little iPhone prototype done by Antoine Brieux and I have to say, it’s a pretty good looking design and one that I honestly would be on board with should something like it arrive in the form of the iPhone 5. What you see here is a uni-body metal casing and [...]
Well, here is some news that is likely going to frustrate U.S. Android enthusiasts waiting diligently for the Samsung Galaxy S II. Several Canadian carriers have confirmed today that they will be carrying the Galaxy S II at some point in the future. Canadian carriers Bell, SaskTel, and Virgin Mobile (Canadian edition) have all announced [...]
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