Android chief Andy Rubin was on stage at D: Dive into Mobile and showed off a prototype tablet from Motorola that was running Android 3.0 Honeycomb. Honeycomb is the successor to Android 2.3 Gingerbread and from the quick glance provided by Rubin, it will be a nice improvement over the current version of the OS.…
Google Maps bringing offline mode and vector-based mapping to Android
Google Maps for Mobile is, without a doubt, the leading geo-location and mapping service on smartphones today (sorry Windows Phone 7 and your Bing Maps). Today at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference, Mr. Android himself, Andy Rubin, showed the world that the next version of Google Maps for Mobile would come packing some long-awaited…
Apple kicks Nokia out of top spot in Australia
Apple has leap-frogged Nokia to take top spot in Australia. IDC Australia released its Q3 Mobile Device Tracker and the data shows that Apple now has a 36.5% market share, while Nokia sits just below at 30.5%. This is the first time since 2002 that Nokia has not held the top spot in the land…
Google shows off Motorola Android tablet with dual-core processor, Honeycomb
Well, Google seems to be making a habit of going to conferences and showing off unreleased hardware and software. A few weeks after CEO Eric Schmidt showed off the Nexus S, the company’s Android chief Andy Rubin showed off an upcoming Motorola Android tablet with a dual-core processor and Android 3.0 Honeycomb. Engadget nabbed a…
Is that a brick in your pocket or just the ugliest Samsung Android phone ever?
After seeing the Samsung Continuum, we knew we wouldn’t be surprised if it came up with another interesting form factor. Well, they have, and it’s all sorts of unique … in an ugly way.. The handset is being called the W899, looks like an old school flip phone and is quite large when closed. It’s…
Windows Phone 7 cut and paste shown on video
We all know that Microsoft Windows Phone 7 is a pretty good mobile operating system that is still lacking a few features that the iPhone and Android have. One of those is copy and paste but that will be soon fixed in a software update and a new video shows how this will work. As…
CyanogenMod 6.1 goes final – Gingerbread on the way with CM7
CyanogenMod is one of the most loved custom ROMs available for Android OS, and we’re happy to tell you that the latest iteration from the CM team, CyanogenMod 6.1, has finally reached stable status. With CM 6.1 now in its final form, once the source code for Gingerbread is released, the CM team can begin…
Palm webOS 2.0 software keyboard found
One of the biggest features we were hoping for with Palm webOS 2.0 was a virtual software keyboard but we haven’t heard much about this … until now. The good folks at PreCentral did some digging with the latest webOS 2.0 software and found the virtual keyboard is alive and well. It’s still kind of…
HTC 7 Trophy to land on Verizon Wireless in January?
Last month, a leaked promotional flyer hinted at the early 2011 launch of the Windows Phone HTC 7 Trophy on Verizon Wireless. The flyer was intended for Microsoft employees who wanted a Verizon Windows Phone handset. Employees could sign up for the promotion until the end of December and would receive their new handset when…
BlackBerry App World 2.1 on the Way with In-App Purchases
RIM had announced about a year ago that the BlackBerry App World would allow for in-app purchases, and it looks like they’re going to be implementing the changes necessary for the feature to go live soon. This letter went out to app developers informing them about server upgrades, though RIM notes that a client-side app…









