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Last month we heard rumors that the Symbian Foundation might be closing up shop – giving the platform little to no hope of seeing life beyond the foreseeable future. Recently, we discovered SYMBEOSE, a consortium of companies devoted to enhancing the Symbian platform separate from the Symbian Foundation. It now appears that Nokia will also…
Folks waiting to get their hands on a Verizon DROID PRO do not have much longer to wait. Verizon confirmed today that the DROID PRO will be available online starting tomorrow, November 9th. In store pre-orders will also begin on the 9th and the handset will hit the brick and mortar stores on November 18th.…
Some digging around the webOS 2.0 source code have revealed a bevvy of codenames we hadn’t heard before: Stingray, Mantaray, Broadway, and Windsor. There is also reference to A6 hardware at some point, but the details on that are still hazy. Here’s the code: if ((machineType.contentEquals(“broadway”)) || (machineType.contentEquals(“windsor”)) || (machineType.contentEquals(“mantaray”)) || (machineType.contentEquals(“stingray”)) || (machineType.contentEquals(“roadrunner”))) {…
If you’re in the UK, and carry a BlackBerry as your daily driver, the BBC iPlayer app for BlackBerry is now available for you… Well, almost. Turns out this isn’t much of an application at all, but rather a desktop launcher that opens the iPlayer website. Disappointing for sure, but I suppose this does remove…
Evernote has updated its Android client which is now pretty much on par with its iPhone counterpart, if not better. There are tons of improvements and feature updates with Evernote even saying this is the “biggest leap in functionality we’ve ever had on any platform in a single release.” Here’s what’s included: New Home screen…
If you’ve ever been in a situation where you’ve wanted to tell the world about something, and Facebook or Twitter wasn’t the way you wanted to blast your thoughts out into the internets, then you’re probably a blogger. Chances are that if you blog, you use also WordPress. Their native application has been available on…
Japanese operator DOCOMO is set to launch their LTE service, dubbed “Xi”, on the 24th of December. It’s unusual because traditionally the small island nation has always been the first to adopt the latest in networking technologies, launching 3G when European and American mobile phones were only starting to get color screens. Now Sweden, Norway,…
When phone manufactures make camera phones, they’ve got to deal with limitations in size, shape, and weight, which is why when companies like iFixit tear apart smartphones like the Nokia N8 or Apple iPhone 4, the resulting sensor module is typically the size of a single frozen pea. What LG has done with the newly…
Verizon Wireless is in final preparations to launch their LTE network by the end of this month. With speeds that are supposed to reach up to 12 Mbps on the download, as well as ultra low latency so websites pop up like magic, this is going to be the first major cellular network upgrade to…
Two Motorola smartphones that were announced during this year’s CTIA, Bravo and Flipside, are now available at AT&T. The first of the two (Bravo) is an all-touchscreen device with a 3.7-inch 854×480 pixels touchscreen, HSPA and WiFi connectivity, GPS, Bluetooth, 3-megapixel camera, 800MHz CPU and a microSD memory card slot. AT&T is asking $129.99 for…