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The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro captured everybody’s attention when it was announced at Mobile World Congress 2010. It was flanked by the Vivaz Pro, which was a QWERTY variant using a smartphone OS few cared for, and the X10 Mini, which seemed impractical without a real keyboard. The original X10, though looked good…
Remember that mystery HTC slider we saw toting Android OS around the FCC testing labs awhile back? Apparently someone has bought it, as well as another HTC Android handset, the Paradise. They apparently bought the AT&T test units on Craigslist, no less! The mystery slider handset, which may or may not be the Paradise, looks…
New whispers of a next-generation iPad “Mini” and iPhone 5 have just been uttered online, and they hint at new Apple hardware hitting market in early 2011. Now, before we go any further, we’re filing this speculation in our “rumors so shaky it hurts” file, so it’s probably a good idea to take all this…
We talked about how the NPD market numbers showed Android is the top-selling U.S. smartphone platform for last quarter but we missed this little tidbit about how Microsoft Windows Mobile dropped to single-digit market share. The Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system accounted for 9% of the market last quarter, according to NPD numbers and that’s…
Hey, remember the Sony Xperia X10 Android smartphone? It looked like a killer Android handset when it was introduced last year but it has still yet to see a real U.S. launch with a carrier but that may be changing soon. According to a tip by the Boy Genius, the Sony Ericsson has passed through…
All you Motorola Droid X users are probably foaming at the mouth right now in anticipation of the Android 2.2 Froyo update for your sizable smartphone, and today it seemed that your wait had come to an end. A couple tech blogs were reporting that the Android 2.2 ROM for the Droid X had been…
Clearwire posted another bad quarter with a loss of more than $125 million but the 4G provider said it will be testing out Long-Term Evolution technology in a few markets. It’s not messing around either, as it claims it will provide speeds which are “unmatched” by any other carrier. The company, which is majority-owned by…
Residents of Chitown can now express their sorrows on Twitter when the Cubs lose, as AT&T has lit up an outdoor WiFi zone which covers the Wrigley Field area. Following its successful WiFi hotspot in New York’s Times Square, the Chicago zone is another attempt by the second-largest U.S. carrier to augment its 3G network.…
One of our insiders tipped us off to potentially some big changes (cough, iPhone, cough) coming to Verizon Wireless at the end of the 2010 calendar year. According to the leaked information, Verizon will be hiring like crazy with the goal of doubling its retail staff in the majority of its retail stores. This hiring…
One of the biggest complaints about the BlackBerry is that the web browsing experience bites the big one when compared to Apple iPhone or Google Android. Research In Motion is trying to fix that problem with a new Webkit-based browser in BlackBerry 6 and the company is showing off some of the new browser’s features…