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Man, first Videotron launches as the only carrier in Canada to subsidize the Nexus One, and then brings the XT720 Motoroi to North America, and now they’re the first to snag this entry-level Motorola Spice that landed in Brazil last month. In the same breath, Videotron also temporarily went live with the same LG dLite…
According to an anonymous source of FrAndroid, someone has come out and given some clarifications on the specifications of the upcoming/rumored Samsung Galaxy S 2. The American code name for the GS2 is the Samsung Elite, and may hilariously enough be called the Dwarf in Europe, but maybe that’s just a bad Google Translation. If…
The popular BlackBerry application, Tether, is now available for Android handsets. Formerly known asTetherBerry, Tether lets you share your mobile broadband connection with your laptop. The application installs a conduit on your laptop that connects to the tethering application on your handset. The two work together to make the install and configuration drop dead easy. Speeds…
The Apple iPhone app Bump continues to get better, as the sharing application has just added the ability to share music by bumping devices. The Bump 2.2 version for the Apple iPhone and iOS devices now lets you show off your tunes by bumping. You don’t actually transfer the song itself, but the recipient will…
The Palm Pre 2 was announced in nothing more than just a press release pretty recently, and it looks like we have a pretty good idea for when it will launch with Verizon. Here’s a hint: the Kin One and Two won’t be arriving in Verizon stores all alone this holiday season. That’s right, the…
Radio Shack is backing Windows Phone 7 by offering three new smartphones at many of its nationwide retail stores. “Windows Phone 7 is extremely intuitive and user-friendly, allowing people to use their smartphones more efficiently and bring together the things they care about most,” said Daniel Liberman, senior vice president of mobility for RadioShack, in…
Every time we see something from The Astonishing Tribe, or TAT, we immediately want it, and then find out that it will not be released on the Android Market. This time around, however, TAT is offering up three new live wallpapers on the Android Market. The only problem is that I definitely don’t want any…
It seems that Skype users are getting tugged and pulled here and there these days when it comes to a mobile app. At first, it was available nearly everywhere, then restrictions popped up when Verizon signed a deal with Skype, and suddenly Skype was pulling its services from apps like Fring. However, the popular VoIP…
Apple said it will be handing the reigns over to Oracle for Java, as it will be contributing its key components of Java Mac OS X to the OpenJDK project. The move accomplishes a couple of things: it allows Apple to focus on its own software without having to preload Java and it could also…
As expected, the BlackBerry Curve 3G just went on sale at Wind Mobile today, alongside the LG dLite and the Huawei U3200. Although the BlackBerry 9300 will cost you $290 up front, it’s eligible for Wind Mobile’s new tab program, which can bring the price down to $140 if you’re willing to pay off the…