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I definitely needed to hear this bit of news that The Adam tablet computer, from the Indian start-up Notion Ink, may be soon upon us. Maybe. The website has undergone a complete overhaul, and it looks like this bad boy may be rocking a SIM card slot and will be powered by the dual-core NVIDIA…
Despite all the super cool video-streaming capabilities of things like Hulu Plus, a new survey from Nielsen indicates that e-mail is the most common mobile Internet activity. As you can see from the chart above, mobile e-mail is the most common activity, followed by portals, social networks and search. I expect a few of these…
A new Android handset from Motorola has passed through the FCC and the Bluetooth Special Interest Group bearing the model number MB508 and possibly the handsomest, most rugged name one could give a phone: Sage. This thing has a 3.1″ touchscreen, a sliding QWERTY keyboard (likely landscape), runs Android 2.1, and has Wi-Fi, a-GPS, a…
The iPhone and Android operating systems are taking the US by storm, and it seems Google’s mobile OS has just surpassed Apple’s little darling of a smartphone in sales this past quarter – Android comprised 27% of last quarter’s smartphone sales, while the iPhone accounted for 23%. Meanwhile, it seems that most BlackBerry owners aren’t…
One of the coolest features on the iPhone 4 is undoubtedly FaceTime. Well, at least that’s the case if you have friends that want to chat with you, otherwise you have your buddies at Apple. Cool as this feature is, however, it is most certainly crippled by the fact that it only works over Wi-Fi.…
While many consider the Apple iPhone and iPad consumption devices, these have quickly become cool content-creation devices but it’s difficult to get that content off your device. Brother International is trying to fix that with a new iPhone app which enables printing. This isn’t the first Apple iPhone printing app, but most other apps just…
And in today’s global news, “What’s Happening in Kenya” edition, we’re hearing that pre-paid SIM card registration is getting an extension. The government has agreed to give users an additional month to register their pre-paid SIM cards – up to the end of this month. Otherwise, those SIMs could have been cut off this weekend,…
So you bought an HTC HD2 from T-Mobile and went home happily with that big ol’ honkin screen. Then you spent a few hours with Windows Mobile 6.5 and cried your eyes out. 30 days passed and, for one reason or another, you didn’t return it or exchange it for another device. Fear not: Android…
Enough with all the teasing Verizon, can we just get the Motorola Droid 2 in our hands already? We have seen pictures of this thing quite a few times now, some impressive benchmarks, and other goodies to keep us on the edges of our seats, but we need more. To make the wait all the…
In the “No sh*t, Sherlock” category, a new survey from Seventeen magazine and the American Automobile Association said the majority of teens have driven while being distracted in some form. The survey said 81% of teens admitted to driving while being distracted by things like talking on the phone, sending a text, fiddling with the…