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Japanese operator KDDI starts sending Android customers ads via the notification bar

Arguably one of the best features of Google’s Android mobile operating system is the ability to swipe down from the top of the screen and see a list of notifications that require your attention. Missed calls, missed texts, someone liking your latest Facebook status update, that sort of thing. It’s such a handy little gesture that both Apple and Nokia copied it, in iOS 5 and Symbian Belle respectively. But what if companies could start using the notification bar for something other than notifications, like ads? That’s exactly what KDDI, Read more

Stefan Constantinescu

KDDI’s Fujitsu Arrow ES IS12F takes the crown from Moto RAZR for the world’s thinnest smartphone spot

The Motorola RAZR isn’t the world’s thinnest smartphone anymore. Sure it will keep its crown in the western hemisphere but in Japan folks have another, even thinner option – Fujitsu Arrow ES IS12F. Available through KDDI, this Android smartphone is just 6.7mm think which is 0.4mm thinner than Moto’s smartphone. However, Fujitsu’s baby isn’t as powerful as RAZR – it comes with a single-core 1.4GHz processor and smaller 4-inch WVGA 800×480 pixels (as opposed to qHD 960×540 pixels) AMOLED touchscreen. In addition, there’s also a 5-megapixel camera on the back, Read more