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Skype is not resting on its laurels when it comes to the smartphone space, as the company has just updated its VoIP-calling Android app to be more convenient for users. First of all, you can now use the Skype Android app on the Samsung Galaxy S handsets, kind of. The VoIP-calling app will only be…
Well look who’s playing with the big boys with 4G in the big cities–it’s MetroPCS. The carrier has launched LTE in New York City, Boston and Sacramento giving its customers access to some faster mobile broadband speeds. Best of all, unlike other 4G service providers, the pre-paid carrier will have unlimited data without the mess…
HTC’s head honcho Peter Chou said in an interview yesterday that they’re expecting to launch LTE-capable handsets in the U.S. in the second half of 2011. We were under the impression that Verizon was launching their LTE network and handsets very soon, and MetroPCS has already been live with 4G for a couple of months;…
Only few days after the Gingerbread release, folks have already started talking about Android 3.0 Honeycomb. The details are popping all around the Interweb, usually mentioning tablet computers, most notably Motorola Stingray. We have another news item to add to the pile. From what we’ve heard, Honeycomb won’t require any physical buttons. Forget home, back,…
It looks like Sony Ericsson has some problems with the touch-based Walkman UI that should be featured in the Yendo. Dutch mobile news site NieuweMobiel received an official word from Sony Ericsson’s Ben Padley who said that the release date has been pushed back because of dissatisfaction with the handset’s software. As you may know,…
South Korean developer Nabix has written an iPhone application for the lonely men that make up the nation that brings us devices such as the Samsung Google Nexus S and LG C900. For $2 you’ll get up to 4 video calls a day from a girl who serenades you using the oldest courtship phrases in…
Crime is a sad reality of the society we live in, regardless of the reason the crime was committed. Theft of private property, driven by either lust for a product that one can’t purchase due to financial reasons or because said stolen item will be sold to a third party for pocket money to be…
In the future, wireless carriers could charge their customers based on application usage or usage during a specific time of day as a way of managing network data traffic. An application-based plan would provide the customer with unlimited access to an application or a group of applications. An example would be a social networking-friendly plan…
It doesn’t matter how smart your smartphone is, if the battery is dead then you can’t use the damn thing. Apple and Microsoft know this, and it’s why with their respective mobile operating systems they allow developers to build applications that are push enabled, but that push has to come from a central server. Instead…
Near Field Communications (NFC) is going to be a hot topic of discussion in 2011. Whether or not we actually see an ecosystem being built around the technology during that year versus spending 12 months reading the wet dream scenarios cobbled up by the technology press and analysts alike remains to be seen, but the…