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Yahoo has lost one of its top mobile engineers, TechCrunch first reported and confirmed by Yahoo, as Sandeep Gupta will be leaving the company. Gupta was the company’s senior director of application development and there’s no word on where he will be heading to next but he is just the latest departure from Yahoo’s mobile…
Yet another leaked slide has confirmed suspicions of an updated version of the classic BlackBerry Bold 9700 that will include 512 MB of RAM, a 5 megapixel camera, and OS 6. The 624 MHz processor, 1500 mAh battery, 2.44″ QVGA display, aGPS, Wi-Fi, and world-roaming HSPA are all the same as the original. Since the…
By now, you should know that Facebook flipped the switch on its location-based sharing service and I really think Facebook Places will have a big impact on smartphone users. The service is not incredibly innovative, really, as you check in to locations and share this with your friends. This is what companies like Loopt, Foursquare…
Those who have been suffering from the GPS issues that have been plaguing the Samsung Vibrant since it’s release on T-Mobile can now breathe a sigh of relief, as T-Mobile has come out and said that they are working on a fix. The GPS fix for the T-Mobile Vibrant will be pushed out sometime in…
The Samsung Galaxy Tab is one Android tablet that we expect to hit the shelves sooner than many of the most anticipated tablet devices we’re looking forward to seeing later this year and early next year. We may not have any Galaxy Tab hardware readily available just yet, but the firmware for the Android tablet…
Known for its wide array of feature phones, LG has been struggling to tap into the exploding smartphone market. While it has several introductory android handsets that have been well regarded, it has yet to produce a blockbuster hit to compete with the DROIDs of the world. All of that may be changing with LG’s new…
RIM’s next big device, the BlackBerry 9670, code-named Oxford is looking close to a launch on Sprint, and now it looks like RIM is busy showing it off to other partners. A bunch of slides providing a full tour of the device has leaked with all the gritty details, so here are the hard specs…
Intel plans to spend $7.7 billion to buy McAfee and its security products and you can be sure that mobile phones and smartphones play a big role in this acquisition. Smartphones have generally been free of major viruses that plague the desktop but, as smartphones continue to grow market share, most experts think it is…
Details of RIM’s rumoured BlackBerry tablet have been scarce, especially what kind of software it will be running. We presumed that it would be some exploded version of BlackBerry 6, but apparently a recent acquisition of RIM, QNX, will be taking the reins for the operating system. From what we’ve heard so far, the “BlackPad”…
Meizu has been making some of the best iPhone look-alikes ever seen, nevermind that they are essentially ripping off designs birthed in Cupertino – case in point, the Meizu M9. In May, we got word of the Meizu M9, and it sounded pretty nice, but we didn’t know how the set of specs would translate…