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If this isn’t much of a solid indicator that Android 2.3 Gingerbread is on its way soon, I’m not sure what is. The Google campus just got another tasty treat to go with the other Android sweets, and this newly arrived Gingerbread Man signals the impending release of the Gingerbread update. Now the Cupcake, Donut,…
If you’re holding out for the upcoming MyTouch 4G, you may have made the right decision. The upcoming Android smartphone from T-mobile has just been benchmarked, and it flies. Someone who is lucky enough to get to hold one of these smartphones was nice enough to put the device through its paces by benchmarking it…
One of the most exciting phones from the upcoming Windows Phone 7 launch should be the Dell Venue Pro and the portrait-slider is now available for sale online from Expansys. If you hop on over to the site, you’ll see that you can pre-order the Dell Venue Pro for 499.99 Euros. This will be the…
Telus is prepping their holiday answer to Rogers’ Captivate, according to this leaked screenshot of an internal sales portal: the Samsung Galaxy S Fascinate. It’s more or less the same thing as the Captivate, as it’s packing 4″ Super AMOLED display, 5 megapixel camera, 1 GHz processor, Wi-Fi, GPS, and 3G, but the Telus Fascinate…
Well, it looks like Gingerbread will be known as Android 2.3 OS, we told you so. Actually, Phonedog told us in the beginning of September that Android Gingerbread will be sporting a 2.x version number, and Honeycomb would be the flavor that owns the 3.0 title. According to a Google engineer, Gingerbread will indeed be…
The Wall Street Journal posted a poll to their site today for their readers to answer, asking which mobile operating system is the best. The results aren’t terrible surprising, but the margins between the winner and the runner-up are very surprising. The winner so far is Android, and it’s leaving every other mobile operating system…
Just because you’re sporting an older Android phone, you shouldn’t have to worry about being neglected or feeling left behind. Sprint users who are currently rocking a Samsung Moment got a little bit of an update today that does some maintenance to make things a bit smoother. The DJ07 maintenance release promises to do a…
Google Maps for BlackBerry has been updated to version 4.5.1, including the ability to filter local search results based on review ratings, or how close they are to you. There’s also place pages for the businesses that support it, complete with hours, and comments left by patrons, but that’s been available since 4.4.0. Google Maps…
With over four million users, Foursquare is becoming quite popular and we’re seeing people check in from all sorts of places. I don’t think anyone was expected to see a check in from space though and that’s exactly what an astronaut did. Douglas Wheelock used the location-based service to check in from the International Space…
Let’s get this out of the way first: the new myTouch from T-Mobile is not a 4G phone. T-Mobile’s HSPA+ network is not 4G technology no matter how much they want to tie the words “4G” and “speed” together. Now that it’s settled and there won’t be any confusion regarding the new myTouch name, let’s…