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Both T-Mobile USA and Nokia Siemens are pitching Long Term HSPA Evolution to the 3GPP for standardization. T-Mobile, who has been very busy pushing its HSPA+ network as a “4G” network, says that continued development of HSPA will also aid in the development of LTE and LTE advanced. Both T-Mobile and Nokia Siemens also claim…
If you’re on an Android handset on Verizon, you’ll be happy to know that the nation’s largest U.S. carrier is studying the Android 2.3 Gingerbread software and mulling which devices will be getting the update. Now, it’s just a waiting game … but we may have to wait a while. Droid-Life got its hands on…
When it comes to hack-n-slash RPGs that have a strong emphasis on loot collecting, one of the most famous has to be Blizzard’s Diablo series, although Gearbox Software’s Borderlands certainly gave it a run for its money recently. Last year, Gameloft released their own hack-n-slash RPG on the iPhone which also saw a release on…
Have you been aching for a Dell Streak, but were reluctant to plunk down a good deal of cash for one? Today is your lucky day as Best Buy has just lowered the price of the Android is-it-a-phone-or-is-it-a-tablet device to just $100 with a two-year contract. It sure beats the whopping $300 you’d pay for…
When HTC announced it would produce Windows Phone 7 phones, we were curious as to how it would bring Sense to this platform which doesn’t allow much customization. The HTC hub has just received an update which should make it much more useful for users. In my review of the HTC Surround, I said the…
Hey, you blogophiles – the oh-so-popular Posterous service has just launched a client for Android, following up on the recent release of their iPhone app. With the new app, you can post to multiple sites with all of the relevent tags and categories, attach pictures and video taken with your phone’s camera, and geotag a…
As the old holiday classic song goes, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year.” That certainly is the case right now as we currently have two big giveaways going on right now that I took upon myself to remind you, our dear and faithful readers. The first giveaway that we have going on is…
Google TV has just received an update and makes your Android phone a much better remote control. We already know that you can use a free Android app to control Google TV or use the Logitech Revue app, but the new app makes the remote control even better. According to Google’s blog: Starting today you…
Google and some students from the University of California sent a batch of Samsung Nexus S smartphones up to around 32,000 meters in coolers attached to weather balloons to take some awesome pictures and gather gyroscopic data from the phones. The seven Nexus S units took about three hours to get up there before popping,…
After his on-stage appearance at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference, Jon Rubinstein sat down with John Paczkowski and talked further about the future of webOS. In this second interview, Rubinstein confirmed that webOS will support both LTE and HSDPA+ in the future. I am very excited to [be] getting to LTE and HSDPA+ (two…