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In a report released on Wednesday, eBay confirmed its mobile sales are on the rise. The online auction destination boasts of 30 million downloads of its mobile applications across the globe. People are not letting this app sit idle on their handset, they are using it to buy and buy in volume. U.S. mobile sales…
An infographic courtesy of ElektricForest details Microsoft’s complete lineup of Windows Phone handsets. All the minutiae details are available including weight, height, ROM/RAM configuration and more. Once you get past the big picture and dig deeper into the handset specifications, there are some interesting tidbits that can be gleaned from the chart. Take, for example, the Samsung…
Well, this is quite exciting. Samsung Mobile Display said it will show off flexible 4.5-inch AMOLED displays at next week’s CES trade show. This paves the way for a variety of new form factors and gadgets. According to the release: Typically, flexible displays use plastic substrates instead of glass substrates because this helps the display…
It looks like China has made all Voice over Internet Protocol services that are not officially offered by government-run services like China Telecom and China Unicom illegal. That means that Skype and other VoIP services could be blocked from the country with the largest population. Making this illegal will enable the government to crack down…
If you were hoping to get your hands on the Clear iSpot 4G hotspot, you’d better move fast because the device has reportedly been discontinued. Over at the forums, it says that the units in the retail stores will not be replenished. If you’ve already purchased a Clear iSpot 4G, the company will have units…
A tweet from Telus has indicated that they plan on releasing the BlackBerry 6 OS for the Curve 3G 9300 in early January, though nothing is locked down for the Bold 9700. Though the tweet only confirms anything for Telus, it does give hope to other BlackBerry Curve 9300 owners elsewhere in the world. BlackBerry…
Here we go again. It looks like the Quick Snap iPhone photography app has been pulled from the App Store because it makes alternative use of the buttons on the Apple smartphone. We saw this same thing happen with the Camera+ app, as both programs enabled customers to use the volume rocker as a physical…
Best Buy might have run into some issues with its system and the ability to activate the Nexus S for T-Mobile. Users have been unable to purchase a device on contract and get their handsets activated in store, and the problem has been going on for nearly a week now. It’s a little odd that…
Next week’s CES show will bring a slew of tablets and ViewSonic will join the crowd by introducing a 4-inch Android tablet/phone hybrid, according to The Wall Street Journal. The device, which hasn’t been named yet, is supposed to be a 4-inch touchscreen display and it will run Android. I don’t know why that classifies…
There’s an interesting article over at CNN which lays out the case for why Google could become your next phone carrier in the not-too-distant future. While many of the pieces are in place, I don’t see the search giant jumping into this space any time soon. First, we’ll talk about why Google could become a…