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LG is kicking it up a notch with its upcoming Optimus smartphones. The latest entry to be unofficially introduced is the LG Star, a dual-core Tegra 2 offering that runs unknown flavor of Android. Android purists will be happy as this initial rumor suggests the handset will run an untampered version of Google’s mobile OS. The exact…
Another quick BlackBerry OS update for you this morning. This one is for the BlackBerry Curve 8530… and yes, it’s an official release. Coming to us from Virgin Mobile Canada, OS 5.0.0.1000 is now available. You can grab it via the link below: Download OS 5.0.0.1000 for the BlackBerry Curve 8530 via Virgin Mobile Canada…
The Palm Pre recently disappeared from Sprint’s website and its disappearance kicked up rumors that the webOS handset was on its way out. This speculation was well founded as a leaked internal document confirms the EOL (end-of-life) status for the original Pre. From this point forward, the wireless carrier will sell its remaining inventory and will no longer…
The video below, as corny as the dialogue may be, seemingly ripped right from an infomercial that plays late at night between a spot for the latest Girl Gone Wild DVD and a Snuggi you can use while at work, shows the potential of what a smartphone can do if you let it scan all…
The master of the popular sport “I get to try this phone before the rest of the world,” Eldar Murtazin, uses its Twitter account to torment gadget freaks, myself included, around the world. He gets to play with the latest toys before anyone else and is for that reason only hated by many. Then again,…
Samsung and Giorgio Armani are long time pals, having launched a few phones in the past. The next stage in their partnership is an Android-powered smartphone which looks like a Galaxy S variant with Armani-branded apps and content. From what we can tell, the “soon to be launched” Samsung I9010 Galaxy S Giorgio Armani resembles…
In a perfect world there would be no need to code the same application to run on multiple platforms. Developers could spend their time and energy towards building new features, or make the features their application already have easier to discover. Sadly, that’s never going to happen. It was supposed to with HTML5, but it’s…
Qualcomm said it plans to sell the radio spectrum it acquired during India’s BWA spectrum auction. The official word is that they are not in the network building business and that they don’t want to compete with network operators, which may be their clients. The goal was to secure the deployment of LTE in the…
Lenovo wants a piece of the tablet market, too. Apple’s iPad may be leading the market at the moment, but Samsung will definitely get its share of the action with its great Galaxy Tab offering. The main market for such products are the U.S. and Western Europe, and Lenovo plans to “attack” the former with…
Sharp doesn’t want to miss India’s “rise to mobility” and is launching four new phones in the fast developing nation. The four models are Alice, Blink, Tango and Cyborg but unfortunately we don’t have all of their specs at the moment. We do know Sharp has used some of its Japan-only phone designs for these…