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Take a stroll to your local Best Buy and walk down the wireless aisle. Notice how most every smartphone on the market today looks the same? Hard angles, giant slabs of glass, no real differentiation until you hit the power button and see what sort of horrific changes the operators and handset makers put on…
We all know that Nokia is planning to release a Windows Phone Mango handset as soon as it can and a new event invitation indicates we may get a glimpse at this device as soon as August 17. According to The Unwired, there will be a Microsoft and Nokia party August 17 to celebrate the…
NTP launched into a patent lawsuit frenzy last year, suing giants like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Motorola, LG, HTC, and major U.S. carriers like AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint. The seven patents in question revolved around mobile e-mail, and though the U.S. Court of Appeals sought to invalidate the patent for being unreasonably broad, the…
With iPhone 5 rumors in a flurry, we caught a glimpse of what could have been the iPhone 5 last week. However, the photo was blurry and grainy, and it was shot at a distance so we couldn’t get a good look at it. This time around, high-resolution photos have surfaced, and it looks like…
There has been a lot said about the iPad and tablets being the next wave in publishing and The New Yorker revealed that it has more than 100,000 iPad users and more than 20,000 people are paying about $60 a year for a subscription for its iPad app. The New Yorker iPad app may not…
Toshiba’s Android Honeycomb tablet, the Thrive, has just recently got a price cut for eBay’s Daily Deal. You can now grab the 8GB Honeycomb tablet for a mere $379 instead of the standard $429. Even better, shipping is free, too. With very little time left, if you want to jump onto this deal, you best…
Get ready for some discounts coming to your handset, as Google has just acquired Dealmap and it will likely be bringing this location-based discount aggregator to your mobile phones. Dealmap is a great way to find all of the Groupon, LivingSocial and other daily discounts that are around you and it’s easy to see how…
Microsoft had a great quarter recently but we pointed out that Windows Phone 7 was basically nowhere to be found on its earnings sheet. Well, the folks at the Seattle PI have done some digging and found that revenues from Microsoft’s mobile division may have been abysmal. The Windows Phone division (and Windows Mobile) is…
Another day, another report saying Android is taking over the world. For good or for worse, Google’s mobile operating system has set the world on fire and has matched and outgrown the competition in a very short amount of time. According to the latest report from Canalys, Android has capture almost half of the global…
If you were saving your $100 to buy the Thrill 4G on AT&T, you’ll be disheartened to know that you may have to wait a few more weeks for the glasses-free 3D phone to hit. A leak out of Radio Shack says the handset won’t be coming for another three weeks or so. According to…