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When RIM announced their first tablet a few weeks ago, the BlackBerry PlayBook, Flash support was one of the big selling points. To that end, today at the Adobe MAX conference Adobe has launched a set of AIR development tools that work with the tablet’s new operating system, Neutrino by QNX. BlackBerry wasn’t the only…
Huawei is a Chinese company that has traditionally been known for their infrastructure equipment. They do cell towers, portable WiFi hotspot devices, USB dongles, but more recently they’ve been trying to shoehorn their way into the handset space. In early September they announced the IDEOS, a 2.8 inch low end Android phone. What made it…
It’s a little disappointing that webOS never took off. It has design elements in there that to this day have yet to be matched by other platforms. “Itching Thumb” is taking one of the webOS interaction metaphors, the use of cards to represent running applications, and bringing it to the Android platform. To use it…
French firm Lëkki is doing something I’ve been begging phone manufacturers to do for several years now. They’ve taken the old Motorla StarTAC, cleaned it up, gave it a fresh coat of paint, and are now selling it to customer for about 110 EUR. There’s just something about these old designs that people just love.…
The good folks at Vaja Cases have long been pumping out quality high-end products. At the moment, I have a few BlackBerry cases, a couple iPhone cases, and even an awesome yellow and black case for my iPod classic. To say the least, their products rock. That’s why, when the Vaja ivolution Top GT Case…
Remember that somewhat nice lookin’ Acer Liquid Metal S120? The Android smartphone has been caught at the FCC playing nice on WCDMA II and V bands which perfectly fit AT&T’s 3G network. The test model S120 DVT2 relies on Qualcomm’s 800MHz MSM7230-1 CPU while running the latest version of Android OS – 2.2 Froyo. Rest…
Nimbuzz, the application/service that allows mobile phone users to keep in touch with their buddies across multiple social and instant messaging networks, announced that they have been asked by Skype to remove support for all Skype services, effective October 31st. The move is understood to be in line with Skype’s mandate to disconnect with all…
I guess DataViz had some serious problems with Documents To Go 3.0 when it took them 5 months to launch the application for Android. The new version of the mobile office suite is better than ever, bringing new features and capabilities, including: Ability to access all Google Docs files right from within Documents To Go.…
AT&T DataConnect Pass Global is the carrier’s new lineup of international pay-as-you-go data packages, available on AT&T-certified laptops and netbooks. Touted as the ideal service for international business travelers and vacationers, the passes provide data coverage in more than 100 countries, including Canada, Mexico, countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Available in 30-day session…
Japan’s KDDI has a neat service for its customers travelling overseas. The country’s second-largest operator is offering the Novatel Wireless MiFi 2372 as a rental service so that interested folks can access Internet wherever they happen to go/be. The MiFi 2372 is available for 1,280 JPY ($15.7) per day and the service can be ordered…