Dalrus Pte, the company behind OwnSkin.com, announced the wallpaper user generation tool for Android – LiveWallpaper, providing users with an easy way to customize their smartphones. No programming is needed to create your own dynamic wallpaper and you can even include such elements as animation, clock compass and battery information. The resulting wallpaper can be…
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Skype Mobile for Android Now Works with Wi-Fi on Verizon
Skype Mobile, which still only works with Verizon thanks to a deal made earlier this February, can now connect over Wi-Fi. Odd, isn’t it? You’d think that Wi-Fi would have been an option from the start to relieve the U.S.’s best 3G network (in terms of coverage) of some strain. However, until now Skype had…
Samsung Galaxy S Fascinate Starts Hitting Verizon Stores
Fans of the Galaxy S series of devices from Samsung can get excited for the Fascinate as it is apparently arriving at Verizon stores now. Well, more specifically the launch kits are now arriving at Verizon stores, which means that we could be seeing the Fascinate any day now. This certainly jives with what we’ve…
Huawei Ideos: Android 2.2, 2.8 inch QVGA screen, around $150 [UPDATE: Video!]
Huawei has just announced what they’re calling the first mass market Android 2.2 device, the Ideos. Earlier this week I linked to an article from The Wall Street Journal that said Huawei would be releasing their first high end smartphone at IDF. Looks like they, and in turn I, got it all wrong. The Ideos…
BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9100 Gets Official on Wind Mobile for $300
As expected, Wind Mobile just launched the BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9100 for $300. No contracts, no ETFs, and there’s currently a great half-off deal on data add-ons until September 15 – $10/month for 500 MB is a total steal. The BlackBerry 9100 is basically a miniaturized Bold 9700, including all the fixings, like HVGA display,…
LightSquared: We’ll launch LTE in 9 markets in 2011, have 300 cell towers up by the end of 2010
LightSquared, who in an earlier article I jokingly called an idea scribbled on the back of a bar napkin, plans on taking on every operator in America by offering an LTE network that will use the MVNO business model, and according to documents seen by Bloomberg that plan will begin executing in 9 markets in…
Starbucks Testing New BlackBerry App at 8 Seattle Locations
If you drink a lot of Starbucks (like me), and carry a BlackBerry (like me), there’s a new app being tested in the Seattle area that will no doubt be of interest to you (and me). On the heels of their successful iPhone app (launched last September), Starbucks is announcing a new version of the…
T-Mobile: The upcoming G2 has an 800 MHz processor, runs Android 2.2 and does 14.4 Mbps
T-Mobile’s insider newsletter, aptly called “SCOOP“, has revealed some details on the yet to be announced HTC G2, namely that the processor inside is clocked at 800 MHz, the operating system it runs is Android 2.2, and that the peak theoretical network speed it’ll offer customers is 14.4 Mbps. But doesn’t T-Mobile have a 21…
Samsung Galaxy Tab officially unveiled as Android-powered iPad competitor
After a brief tease last week, Samsung has made its Galaxy Tab official. The teaser video from last week hinted at most of the details on this tablet, but it is exciting to see the nitty gritty details fleshed out. Other than a Tegra 2 processor, this hot, new Android 2.2 tablet is chock full…
Google slapped with Nexus One 3G reception lawsuit
Thanks to Gizmodo, who showed the world that you can kill the reception of an iPhone 4 by holding it as if it was the rope needed to pull you out of a pit of quick sand, everyone started doing the same thing to their devices and low and behold the Google Nexus One suffered…