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We have already heard a bit about the LG Star but now we have some more pictures of the Tegra 2-powered Android monster courtesy of the good folks at Phandroid. The new pictures of the LG Star don’t reveal too much besides the shiny HDMI port but we’re very excited to get some hands-on time…
It looks lime the long 3 month road that Epic Games’ Infinity Blade has been on will soon be at an end as the game will be hitting the App Store soon. How soon? How about December 9th? Yes, THAT soon. If you recall, Infinity Blade was first announced back in September as “Project Sword”…
In a bid to stop the multiple deaths that happen while using cell phones while driving, the U.S. Department of Transportation is reportedly mulling taking a harder line and using technology to block cell phones while driving. “I think the technology is there,” said Raymond LaHood, the Secretary of Transportation. “And I think you’re going…
Remember the Motorola Olympus? Of course you do, as it’s the handset maker’s first NVIDIA Tegra 2-toting handset. For sometime now we’ve expected to see the Olympus hit Verizon retail shelves in the first quarter of 2011, and that’s about as specific as we’ve heard when it comes to a release date. Facebook painted a…
RIM’s job database has a position for an NFC specialist for their Rolling Meadows, Illinois, who would design and oversee the testing processes for as yet unannounced NFC devices. Man, Jim Balsillie wasn’t fooling around when he was talking about near-field communications on BlackBerry being more or less a sure thing. For the uninitiated, near-field…
A new study from the GfK Group suggests that smartphone owners aren’t loyal to any handset maker but Apple iPhone owners buck the trend slightly. The GfK survey found that 56% of smartphone owners will be keeping their options open when it comes to which type of phone they will buy next. It also said…
Perhaps the Antennagate issue that plagued the iPhone 4 wasn’t exclusive after all – just like Apple said. The HTC HD7 – one of the latest in a series of new Windows Phone 7 handsets – appears to suffer from a little user interference, too. The T-Mobile handset is depicted in a video where it…
eBay Germany is listing what looks like a prototype of the successor to the Nokia N86. It has the same portrait-slider form factor but instead of an 8 megapixel camera, it’s 12 megapixels, like the Nokia N8. There’s a weird bar separating the the directional pad from the screen, whose function is anybody’s guess, plus…
Users who have purchased the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 on AT&T may be wondering when they’ll get the Android 2.1 OS update and finally rid themselves of Android 1.6, but it looks like they may have quite a bit of time to wait. Who is to blame, though? According to Sony Ericsson, they are pointing…
Microsoft has done quite a job cultivating the developer ecosystem for its recently-launched Windows Phone 7, as the platform already has more than 3,000 apps – nearly on par with what Research In Motion has with its App World, which has been around for much longer. But we’re now starting to hear some grumblings from…