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If you think it doesn’t matter what the default search engine is on a phone, then you should check out the data from Chitika: the company said that more than 96% of Apple iPhone users search with Google. The Google App, one of the more popular entries in the App Store, accounts for 8.68% of…
The much-anticipated Android 2.2 follow-up, Gingerbread, is supposed to bring the OS to a whole new level of aesthetic appeal, amongst other things, according to rumors. Today we’re treated to some real details on the next Android OS update from Google. Phandroid got their hands on the first picture of Gingerbread, and the verdict? We…
A recent milestone by Google AdMob shows how big the market for mobile advertising could become. “Exciting milestone – the AdMob network has served 300 billion ads since 2007!,” Google tweeted. I remember when AdMob first got started and there was still a ton of questions about how sustainable a mobile advertising network could really…
Last week at the Windows Phone 7 launch, AT&T announced that they were going to launch their U-verse mobile TV service for Microsoft’s rebooted mobile platform, but that hardly means AT&T is leaving their other platform partners out in the cold. Today, they announced that the recently-launched BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 and a whole batch…
Most of the hype you see around location-based social networking is about the serendipity of meeting your friends when they’re out and about or how it will be used for location-based advertising. The new Apple iPhone and Android app Unsocial isn’t concerned with those things, as it is using LBS to help professionals connect. The…
This is an interesting concept to mull over: do you group the iPad into PC sales figures or keep it as a separate category? Analyst Chris Whitmore of Deutsche Bank took the former approach and considered Apple’s position in the PC world with the iPad as a consumer PC device. The startling Q3 2010 results…
If you’re on the fence about getting a Windows Phone 7 device on Orange, you may be happy to hear that the carrier said the Samsung Omnia 7 will offer High-Definition Voice. HD Voice is a technology offered by Orange which aims to provide a higher-quality of voice communication. It’s not used by many other…
It was looking pretty certain that the refreshed Storm that jammed BlackBerry 6 onto the Storm 2 was going to be canned, but there are still signs of life in internal Verizon retail systems. There are two pictures here, showing the BlackBerry Storm 3 9570, clear as day, but I still suspect these are relics…
As expected, the BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9100 and Curve 3G 9300 have landed on AT&T. T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint have all had the Curve 9300 out for a little while now, but AT&T is the first in the U.S. to introduce the Pearl 9100. Together, the two flank upper and lower tiers; the Curve 9300…
HTC announced the Gratia, an entry-level Android handset that is slated to land in Europe starting this fall. The Gratia is the European variant of the AT&T HTC Aria and offers support for Europe’s flavor of 3G. The Gratia includes the following specs: 600 MHz processor 3.2-inch touchscreen display with 320 X 480 resolution Quad-band…