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Even in the midst of a recession, handset sales are on the rise and smartphone sales are skyrocketing. A recent report out of Gartner reveals that mobile phone sales in Q3 2010 grew a respectable 35% year over year. Smartphone sales increased a staggering 96% year over year and now account for 19.3% of worldwide…
Earlier today, some blogs had said that T-Mobile had put their Even More Plus plans out to pasture, and while it did seem to be true, there was more to the story. The short version: the T-Mobile Even More Plus plans are still available. T-Mobile’s Even More Plus plans are for those who either already…
Mac hackers and tech journalists are in high gear snooping through lines of code and calling up contacts ad infinitum trying to discover the what, where, and why of tomorrow’s big iTunes announcement. At the end of the day, we have two prevailing theories from the two different camps of sleuths. The first suggests that…
Remember LightSquared? The company is planning to roll out a 4G LTE network in 2011 and it has just launched its first satellite to get the ball rolling. The company won’t be competing directly against Verizon, T-Mobile or Sprint when it comes to 4G services directly at consumers, as the LightSquared 4G LTE network will…
Let’s face it, the Garminfone didn’t do much to really attract customers in buying one of the navigation-focused smartphones. Thankfully, that hasn’t stopped the Android OS updates from trickling out, and the four people who actually bought the Garminfone will be happy to know that the handset has been updated to Android 2.1 Eclair. T-Mobile…
Another day, another case of abuse of power by cops unwilling to have their public police activities filmed by passersby with an iPhone, Android, or any other video recording device. This time around, we bring you the story of a Connecticut man who was recently arrested by New Haven Assistant Chief of Police Chief Ariel…
I bet that on Steve Slater’s last day of work at JetBlue he probably wanted to text friends and family before landing, “OMG get me outta here!!” And now the infamous hero-turned-pariah is going to be helping Line2, the VoIP service that allows calls over Wi-Fi and 3G for smartphones, with its new promotion –…
Google CEO Eric Schmidt may not have officially announced Android 2.3 today, but we did get another glimpse of the Nexus S today. Not much more is known about the handset, but we do know that it will be sporting an NFC chip inside, and Android will support it going forward. I wasn’t really expecting…
Google CEO Eric Schmidt showed off what is likely the Nexus S and said the next version of Android, Gingerbread, will focus on mobile payments with support for Near-Field Communication. “I don’t think people understood how much more powerful mobiles are going to be than the desktops,” Schmidt said during the Web 2.0 Summit. If…
A popular visual news reading app, Pulse, just went free for Android and iPhone. It used to be priced between $1 and $4, but apparently they’re hoping to make their money through paid publisher partnerships. All of the standard features of a news reader are there – syncing feeds from Google Reader, searching for keywords,…