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Can’t wait to get your hands on a white iPhone 4? Tired of using that tacky white iPhone kit which is obviously a cheap Chinese cover-up? While we can’t announce the availability of this highly desirable handset just yet, we can point you to the next best thing- a four minute unboxing video that showcases the…
Bank of America, America’s largest bank in terms of customers, and Visa, the world’s largest payment processor, are set to begin trials of mobile phone payments next month in the New York area according to Reuters. People in the trial will be given “small chips” that they’ll place “in their smartphones” which will “emit radio…
Bell HTC Legend, we hardly new you. The Android 2.1 powered device, which launched on Bell only a couple of months ago, has already been tagged with ‘end of life’ status. What gives!? Our friends at MobileSyrup have it on fairly good authority that the issues here are supply constraints from the manufacturer. In other…
Those of you working in the technology industry who are tired of paying out the ass for hotel rooms every February, getting served food that’s been sitting in a restaurant’s freezer for half a year, and being on full alert at all times thanks to a sensational amount of pick pocketing, this is your time…
Verizon has invested $400,000 into a small startup called CardStar according to The Wall Street Journal. CardStar, who’s based out of Boston, has already received a $1 million investment round from 3 different venture groups, and has over 700,000 users, is a service that works on Android, BlackBerry and iPhone which enables people to store…
Samsung has just posted a job position based out of Bridgewater, New Jersey for a LTE RIL (Radio Interface Layer) Engineer who will be tasked with adding LTE support to Android, fueling speculation the the South Korean firm will be the first to offer an LTE enabled mobile phone. Samsung, who is already shipping USB…
Nokia has just announced that they’ve acquired mobile analytics firm Motally, which currently has only 8 employees. Financial details have not been disclosed, and I doubt you’re going to hear about them anyway, but the deal is set to become official towards the end of this quarter. So, what does Motally do? Watch the 15…
Qualcomm is rumored to be investing upwards of $2 billion into a factory located at the Longtan site in the Central Taiwan Science Park that will mass produce 5.7 inch Mirasol displays beginning as early as 2012 according to sources that have spoken to Digitimes. Mirasol technology, which we’ve covered in the past, shares the…
Orange UK wants to cash in on the touchscreen craze, hence they’ve launched two such (touchscreen-equipped) devices for those folks who like the whole “touch idea” but don’t want to spend a small fortune on their handset. The first device is called Samsung Libre C3300 and it’s basically the Samsung Champ. Specs include a 2.4-inch…
Samsung announced the Galaxy U (model number SHW-M130L) South Korea’s LG U+. The new member of the Galaxy family comes with a slightly smaller screen than the original Galaxy S — 3.7 vs 4 inches, while keeping the rest of the specs pretty much unchanged. That said, there’s a 1GHz CPU, WiFi (802.11n) and 3G…