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The Skyfire browser has always been popular among mobile fanatics but the company has told us that its Android version is officially mainstream as the server-side browser has been downloaded more than 1 million times. If you haven’t tried out the free browser, you should. Skyfire for Google’s mobile operating system uses server side technology…
There is a major shift happening at Nokia these days with executives leaving the company, and this time it’s Jorma Ollila who will be leaving his post in 2012. This announcement has been made shortly after the news that CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo will be leaving on September 20 to be replaced by Microsoft executive Stephen…
Adobe confirmed that its latest Adobe Flash zero day exploit extends to Android handsets in addition to Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris machines. This exploit opens a hole for remote hackers to crash an affected system or execute code remotely. Before you panic and shut down your handset, this vulnerability is circulating in the wild…
WorldMate’s most excellent travel app for BlackBerry and iPhone is finding its way to Android today. It covers all the bases when your leaving town, and includes travel alerts for flights, itinerary planning, flight status lookups, directions to local destinations through links to Google Maps, hotel booking, currency converters, weather forecasts, and a bunch of…
The new Nokia C7 is, by all measures, a lesser smartphone than the Nokia N8 – which is Nokia’s Symbian^3 flagship, due to hit market in the coming weeks. The C7 has a down-rated camera and less onboard storage than the N8, but that doesn’t mean the C7 is a bad phone. Nokia announced today…
After waiting for what feels like an eternity, Palm Pre Plus owners on AT&T and Verizon are finally receiving the webOS 1.4.5 update. While most of the fixes in this update are minor, it does enable PDK application support which is necessary for gaming on the webOS platform. All Verizon Wireless and AT&T customers rocking a…
Nokia World 2010 is alive and well, and VP Niklas Savander wasted no time in talking up the brand as well as taking unrelenting jabs at Apple and Google. According to Savander, Nokia sold 260,000 phones per day during the summer, and he says that those figures are more than the iPhone and Android handsets…
We knew it was coming, and as expected, Verizon has confirmed that they’ll be offering the BlackBerry Curve 3G 9330 on September 16 in “charcoal” and “fuchsia red”. The BlackBerry Curve 3G 9330 is RIM’s entry-level smartphone, so don’t get too excited. Specs include Wi-Fi b/g (no n, like the 9300), EVDO 1X 3G, GPS,…
LG unveiled the specs and set the launch dates for the previously announced Optimus One and Optimus Chic. This Android duo are designed to attract new users to Google’s mobile platform and are part of a larger push into Android by LG. Under the hood, both handsets are similar and include an entry-level 600MHz processor, a…
If you ever thought to yourself that you’d love to see Nokia produce a successor to the brick-sized Nokia 9000 Communicator that Val Kilmer used in The Saint, your wishes have been granted in the just-announced Nokia E7. At the Nokia World 2010 London keynote today, Nokia officially announced the E7, among other phones, as…