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This is a rumor so take this with a giant grain of salt – I’m talking boulder size here – but there are some photos circulating of the almost-mythical white iPhone on the Verizon network. The purported shot shows that the white iPhone doesn’t have a SIM card, features a slightly redesigned body to counter…
The official Twitter for iPhone app is a solid way to get your tweets on the go but it hasn’t been as full-featured as some third-party apps. That’s slowly starting to change, as the official iPhone app is now getting push notifications for mentions. Whenever someone gives is trying to reach out to you on…
You might love flying, or you may hate it, but apps like FlightTrack Pro might help ease the pain just a little. FlightTrack Pro lets you schedule and track flights on a map, and now it has a few new and helpful features, too. With the holidays coming up and travel, as usual, is expected…
So you know how you can only put appropriately formatted microSD memory cards into Windows Phones? As it turns out, you can’t even remove those cards for use in some other phone. Straight from the Samsung Focus FAQ: “Once inserted and properly formatted, the memory card becomes an inseparable part of the phone. A microSD…
Target will be kicking the tires with check-in rewards for smartphone users, as the retail giant will be piloting the Shopkick Apple iPhone app in 242 of its stores in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York City and San Francisco. We’ve covered the Apple iPhone app Shopkick before when it debuted in some…
When the iPhone 4 was first announced, we caught a glimpse of the internals and it was pretty clear that Apple made way for a new, larger battery. Many were skeptical about the claimed call times, music and video playback times and web browsing that can be done on the new device. Given the iPhone’s…
Aside from dropping the bomb that the BlackBerry PlayBook would have a module cavity to upgrade the tablet, RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie also mentioned at the Web 2.0 summit that they’d “be fools” not to include near-field communications in a BlackBerry smartphone in the near future. To corroborate Balsillie’s mention, rumour has it that RIM…
You may have heard that AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Discover and Barclay’s have formed a joint-venture called Isis to boost mobile payments through NFC technology but what does that really mean for you? Well, friends, we spoke with Isis today about how it could be different this time and about how your phone may finally become…
Today at the Web 2.0 Summit RIM’s co-CEO Jim Balsillie mentioned off-handedly that their upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will have a module cavity to make the device upgradeable. This is a likely spot for 3G or 4G that they hinted at during launch, and Balsillie said that they “would be fools not to include NFC…
It’s been a long time coming, but you can now get the official Google Voice app for the Apple iPhone. This isn’t a major surprise because third-party apps were let back in the App Store a few months ago, but this official version is free and it has support for the iOS 3.1 and above…