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T-Mobile is the only carrier left without a conspicuous 4G plan. Sprint is already using WiMax and both Verizon and AT&T have made it very clear that they will go with LTE. T-Mobile, however, has been focusing on its HSPA+ network, which offers theoretical top speeds of up to 21Mbps. Still, the nation’s fourth largest…
The ever-addictive Angry Birds for the iPhone just got a new must-have update, especially for those of you with the iPhone 4 or the latest iPod Touch. First, there’s the Game Center support, which will let you compete in Apple’s gaming hub. Have no worries, though – your achievements from Crystal will be carried straight…
Toktumi has once again updated its iPhone app Line2 to further sweeten the deal. The main new thing of this release (version 3.0) is the introduction of carrier-grade texting, allowing users to have a single app for both low-cost phone calls and texting. As you may know, Line2 offers users unlimited VoIP calls for just…
Gap has partnered with mobile entertainment agency Skyrockit to bring its Casting Call contest to moms and dads on the go, in the form of an iPhone app. The application is obviously called Gap Casting Call, and it makes it super easy for parents to enter their children (ages 10 and under) into the contest.…
Layar may go for the Samsung Wave (Bada) smartphone users, but metaio wants its share of the Symbian action… During the recently held insideAR augmented reality conference in Munich, Germany, metaio unveiled and even demoed junaio for Symbian. The popular AR app was caught running on the brand-new Nokia N8 smartphone, though we still wait…
These are good days for the fans of the classic arcade games. Taito is in the midst of porting its classic title Bubble Bobble to the iPhone. As a matter of fact, the gaming publisher said the game, titled Bubble Bobble Double, is expected to hit the AppStore “very soon.” We don’t have all details…
Now that it has sold off most of its assets in Africa, Kuwait’s Zain seems to look like an appealing target for acquisitions. That said, UAE operator Etisalat is in the process of acquiring a 46% stake in the rival Middle Eastern firm, having offered to pay 1.7 KWD ($5.97) per share, which would value…
After Handmark, Samsung has scored another mobile app publisher to support its Bada platform – Netbiscuits. Actually, Netbiscuits is not a publisher per se, they are the “development and publishing platform for mobile web sites and apps” and they will allow its users to get content on Samsung Bada smartphones, Samsung Wave (S8500) included. Samsung…
It has been a rough week for the Symbian Foundation. Earlier this week, Sony Ericsson confirmed it will no longer produce Symbian handsets and now Samsung has joined the ranks of manufacturers who have walked away from this mobile platform. In an announcement on its Mobile Innovator website, Samsung confirmed that it will drop developer support for…
We all know deep in the heart of Apple there’s new gadgetry floating around. New phones, perhaps a super-dooper iPad 2 (or 3)… Heck, there’s probably a lot of stuff we haven’t even dreamed of that’s being worked on at this very moment. What I have here is just that. What could this be? All…