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When it comes to Windows Phone 7 devices, the HTC Mozart tops the charts for unique industrial design and boasts the highest-megapixel camera of any WP7 device yet announced. HTC went live with their handful of WP7 phones at the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 press conference, so we had to put our grubby mitts all…
Samsung has delayed its unveiling of the new Galaxy Tab in South Korea. The new Android tablet would have been announced to the media on October 14, but Samsung is delaying the event “to equip the device with better localized applications for the domestic market.” It must be a huge bummer for the folks in…
Oracle and IBM are teaming up to collaborate on a fully open source version of Java and the move could have major impact on Google’s Android mobile operating system. IBM and Oracle will be collaborate on OpenJDK and this is expected to be where the companies focus its efforts. InfoWorld has a great breakdown of…
Earlier this morning, Gizmodo posted an image that it claimed might have been the new iPhone 4 for Verizon. While I was getting ready to wrap up my report on it (and with a debunk), Gizmodo updated its information about 20 minutes after the post and called it a fake. It also pulled the post…
Foxconn, the manufacturer of devices like the Apple iPhone and products for Nintendo, Dell and others, is publicly responding to reports which say many of its employees face physical abuse while at work. A government study leaked to the press and found that the abuse rates were up to 50% in some Foxconn facilities and…
Apple is reportedly in talks to bring the CDMA iPhone to India. According to the report in the Wall Street Journal, Apple has been negotiating with both Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices for five months. The two wireless carriers operate CDMA-based networks and have a combined subscriber base of about 100 million users. It’s a…
The Japanese mobile social gaming site DeNA will be paying up to $403 million for the Apple iPhone game maker ngmoco and this could be the largest mobile social gaming company in the world. The story was first reported by TechCrunch but Reuters said the deal will involve $303 million in cash, shares and stock…
Good news for jailbreakers who passed on Geohot’s limera1n tool and were waiting for greenpois0n to debut. The chronic dev team confirmed on twitter that their jailbreaking tool is now ready to roll. The greenpois0n website has been updated and the executable is now available for download. Currently, only Windows is supported but a Mac…
A software update for the Rogers BlackBerry Curve 9300 and Bold 9700 will enable the handsets to make calls over Wi-Fi using UMA. Rogers is the only carrier in Canada to offer such UMA service, branded as TalkSpot (although soon to be renamed Rogers Wi-Fi Calling). BlackBerry dominates the list of UMA-supporting devices on Rogers,…
The last we had heard about RIM’s tribulations in India over providing lawful interception capabilities to authorities, an interim solution was being trialled until the end of October, and they had already provided partial access to BlackBerry Messenger data, but the unique encryption keys generated by private enterprise servers are not accessible by RIM. There…