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As Google continues its rise to smartphone platform domination with Android, being available on over 20 handsets with every major carrier, the problem with its openness has become evident: if you leave your platform wide open, you’re leaving it open to bloatware and crapware from the carriers. Unlike Apple, who convinced AT&T not to brand…
If you thought Facebook Places was scaring the heck out of Foursquare and other check-in services, they’re not letting on yet. Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley is actually firing a few shots across the bow and said he is not impressed with the new location-sharing service. “I have now had a chance to play around with…
One of the good things about the impending flood of Android tablets – like the Allgo Stamp tablet that you see above – is that they will drastically vary in price ranges. We’ve seen tablets ranging from $35 to $500, and while we’ll likely see hardware that tops $500, it’s clear that there will likely…
The Apple iPhone 4 does a lot of things well but it still doesn’t play that nice with Google Calendar and the Gmail experience isn’t as good as on Android. Google is trying to correct that though and it has just multiple new improvements to its Google Mobile app for iOS products. The first new…
MetroPCS has already confirmed their first LTE handset to be the Samsung Craft, seen also passing through the FCC. We’ve got some pictures now, and unfortunately they reveal that it’s using the same flavour of TouchWiz as the Caliber – no Android here. As far as connectivity goes, the Craft will run on dual band…
Paranoia has run rampant amongst Republican U.S. senators when word of Huawei becoming a potential supplier of telecommunications equipment for Sprint got out. The problem with Huawei gaining any advancement in the U.S. telecommunications market is in its dealings and business with militia groups from Iran and in China. Apparently, according to the senators, doing…
Another Windows Phone 7 offering has reared its ugly head and is available for world to see. Shot through the blurry lens of a video camera is the LG E900, a slate style handset and a presumed launch companion to the recently leaked LG C900. The E900 lacks the QWERTY keyboard of the C900 and…
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company PowerPhone Inc. a patent called “Integrated Call Handler and E-Mail Systems and Methods” that allows users to send SMS text messages to 911. The company will use this patent to allow users to send text and video messages to 911 if in need of…
We’ve already seen some of the handsets will look like but the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 platform will need a strong catalog of applications to truly compete with the Apple iPhone and Google Android. The company is touting its Windows Phone 7 app ecosystem and said its developer tools have already been downloaded more than…
BlackBerry App World 2.0 just got out of beta last week, and along with it came paid apps for Australia. Payment options include the original PayPal option, but you can also go with the new credit card billing. It doesn’t sound like any carrier partners have signed on just yet for wireless billing. Australia actually…