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If you are like me, one of the first apps you install on your handset is a weather app and one of my favorites is WeatherBug. Thanks to YouTube we get a sneak peek of this popular application running on Windows Phone 7. The Windows Phone 7 version demoed in the video is impressive. The…
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the FTC will continue to carefully scrutinize Apple’s actions despite its loosened policy towards third-party iOS compilers. The brouhaha started back in April when Apple announced its new terms of service for iOS 4 and included the now fateful statement: only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C…
After we’ve heard word that the Garmin smartphones weren’t selling well the company said in an interview that it will evaluate its phone business if things don’t pick up in the next few quarters. The company is well known for its class of personal navigation devices but that market may be dwindling as convergence take…
It was a big week of upgrades, as Nokia arguably upgraded itself with a new CEO, Apple iPhone users received the 4.1 software and the sequel to the world’s first Android phone made its official debut. We missed last week, but let’s dive into a recap of this week in mobile news. Nokia gets a…
Not long after Android 2.1 took over as the dominant version of the OS running on all devices, Android 2.2 – otherwise known as Froyo — has been taken up by a sizable chunk of all Android phones in the wild. Froyo now accounts for 28.7% of all devices running Google’s mobile operating system today.…
Most of you young’uns in Canada are just starting your school year, and have a wealth of excuses with which to bug your parents for a new cell phone, while others might not be so lucky and have to get something on a budget. Lucky for you, our ear is continually to the ground for…
Microsoft just wrapped up a huge parade for the upcoming launch of its Windows Phone 7 platform and it reportedly included a funeral procession for the Apple iPhone and BlackBerry handsets. The celebration took place at Microsoft’s Redmond campus and the Microsoft mobile team were the participants. The workers reportedly dressed in funeral-like costumes and…
Verizon has just gone live with their own variant of the Samsung Galaxy S Android phone, dubbed the Verizon Fascinate, so of course we had to get our very own Fascinate to play with. The $200 (with new 2-year contract) Verizon Fascinate is the last Galaxy S phone to hit a major US wireless carrier,…
Foxconn has been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons, as the company which actually manufactures the Apple iPhone has been vilified because of multiple worker suicides. To combat this bad press, Foxconn allowed Business Week to have an all-access tour of the facilitates and the results are a fascinating in-depth look at…
Well, what do we have here? We’ve seen the Asus Windows Phone 7 phone before but now it’s being shown off in all its glory in video form. There’s still no direct word on the specs from this device that was spotted at Gnomedex but it’s safe to assume that it will have a 1…