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Over the Christmas weekend, my usual flow of app downloads pretty much ground to a slow saunter. I’m usually purchasing and downloading apps on a somewhat frequent basis, but with friends and family all around, it was clearly time to shift priorities. That said, over the holiday I DID manage to scrape together to try…
How nice of you to join us, HTC Thunderbolt, we’ve been expecting you. Actually, we weren’t expecting the Verizon-bound Thunderbolt specifically, but we knew something like this LTE-capable Android phone was due to show its face sometime soon. Today, Verizon’s first LTE device, poses for the camera in newly leaked product photos. Droid-Life managed to…
We’ve heard a lot of rumors regarding the second generation Apple iPad now, or the iPad 2, and we have another to throw onto the pile. Last month, it was said that the next generation iPad would be getting GSM and CDMA radios. According to a more recent rumor, there will be three different types…
So, going through the system settings to check for an update on your Android phone isn’t working, eh? Well there’s another way to find out if your phone has an update waiting for it, and it’s as easy as dialing a number combination on your phone’s dialer. From your Android phone’s dialer simply enter *#*#checkin#*#*,…
Buckle up, Magenta fans, as we have quite a juicy rumor for you today. According to Tmonews, the Motorola Cliq 2 and the Dell Streak 7 may possibly launch on January 19th. Does this mean that both devices will be announced at CES next week? That sure looks to be the case. Since this is…
It’s been tough catching up to the king of the mountain, but Google is getting up there with the number of apps available in the Android Market. According to AndroLib, the open platform now has over 200,000 available applications. That’s some impressive growth considering the fact that Android is just a little over two years…
The latest addition to Google’s Nexus superphone lineup is the Samsung Nexus S, and it’s the first Android handset to sport the Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS. It’s loaded with bells and whistles. Google’s Android 2.3 OS brings a refreshed user interface to the table, trimmed with new apps, new icons, and a snazzy new keyboard.…
The massively popular Samsung Galaxy S is still awaiting the Froyo update here in the US of A, but a recent slip up on the Samsung website may prove that the Android 2.2 Froyo update is not too far away. Although, at this point, aren’t we waiting for Gingerbread now? The product pages for the…
It looks like Microsoft’s strategy of buying developers is starting to pay off already; unofficial stats counters show the official Windows Phone Marketplace is up to 5,000 apps, which at least competes with, if not surpasses Palm’s webOS Catalog. To be fair in the comparison, Microsoft was able to churn out a lot more phones…
Through the years, Apple products have gotten some fancy treatment from third-parties. We’ve seen gold-plated iPhones, diamond-encrusted iPods and sparkly iPads. This time we’re looking at a Gresso iPad, complete with 200-year-old African Blackwood and 18k gold. It used to be that running around with a fancy iPad was enough to induce envy from your…