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You paid good money for them, but Apple still wants to own your jailbroken iPhone, iPod touch and/or iPad. Aside from voiding warranties on jailbroken its popular iDevices, Apple is now looking to disable them, too. Steve Jobs & Co. have filed a patent that will allow Apple to identify and disable hardware that has…
We had the scoop late last week about Virgin Mobile’s new Broadband2Go plans, including the very exciting $40 unlimited option. Spotted on the mobile broadband section of Virgin’s Facebook page was the above graphic which details and unofficially confirms Virgin’s new $10/100MB and $40/unlimited Broadband2Go plans. This image reportedly made its debut without any fanfare…
In another bit of Android news, Motorola has recently updated the upgrade schedule for its Android 2.x devices, including those released here in the US and overseas. Most of the information has been previously announced or leaked; but it is notable that some of the updates have changed. For example, the CLIQ was expected to see…
DROID X owners that have not snagged a copy of the leaked Android 2.2 ROM may want to start googling for a download source and grab it quickly. Motorola is sending out cease and desist notices and the file is being pulled down by sites not wanting to fight the American manufacturer. Here is the…
AT&T users take note as the Motorla MB520 Kobe may be one of the next Android handsets to hit Big Blue, potentially taking second place behind the Samsung Captivate. Flying under the radar until now, this previously unknown Motorola handset has been making the rounds of various certification organizations including the WiFi Alliance and the UPnP…
Hey DROID X owners, we realize that not everyone upgraded to Android 2.2 when it leaked this past week. Despite the allure of Froyo, the leaked ROM is still an untested, unofficial version that may not be stable enough for mission critical usage. Thanks to the DROID community, there is a simple mod for Android…
In an interview with Fortune, Best Buy’s Shawn Score, the president of the retailer’s wireless retail unit, confirmed that the national retailer will be carrying a cornucopia of tablets this coming holiday season. In much the same way netbooks took the computing world by storm a few years ago, tablets are expected to supersede netbooks…
A federal appeals court ruled that the covert recording of a phone conversation using a mobile phone is not a violation of the Wiretap Act if done for legitimate purposes. This interesting ruling stems from a dispute over a family inheritance that harkens back to 2008. In this Connecticut case, a woman died without a…
LG’s foray into the Windows Phone 7 platform was spotted in the wild this week. This side QWERTY slider features a plastic matte body and a combination of hard and touch buttons for phone control and navigation. Despite everyone’s fear that all Windows Phone handsets will be identical due to Microsoft’s strict control over the…
Good news for Cricket as their first Android smartphone is now available for purchase. Sanyo ZIO by Kyocera sports an all-touchscreen form factor with 3.5-inch WVGA display, 3G and WiFi connectivity, GPS, 3.2-megapixel camera, 512MB memory and a microSD memory card slot. Android 1.6 is running the show, but Cricket wowed to upgrade to version…