What you’re looking at above is a photo leaked to Engadget of what is supposedly the HTC Vision, due to launch on T-Mobile later this year. This joins the blurry photo we’ve seen in the past, but new details suggest it has a 3.7 inch screen rather than a giant 4.3 inch display like on…
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Android Market to get operator billing [No more 16 digit credit card numbers!]
Late last year T-Mobile became the first and only operator to sell Android devices that allowed direct billing to the operator. In plain English, what T-Mobile allowed you to do was buy an application from Android’s Market and have the payment tacked on to next month’s bill. Tim Bray, from Google’s Official Android Developer’s Blog,…
Ultrabrief: FCC, Public Safety, the “D Block”, what does this all mean?
The Associated Press published 1,000 words on what the FCC is currently trying to do with regards to the D Block of wireless spectrum and how it’s going to impact the networks that public safety (think cops, fire fighters, ambulances, etc.) employees use. It’s tightly written, information dense, and I’d be doing it a disservice…
Two open source groups, LiMo and GNOME, get together to make a free-tarded baby
LiMo and GNOME, two open source groups that frankly have little to no mainstream acceptance, are getting together make open source more popular. A goal open source advocates have had since the beginning of time. The LiMo Foundation will become a member of GNOME Foundation’s Advisory Board and the GNOME Foundation will become an Industry…
HTC officially states that they’re dumping OLED for Sony’s Super LCD due to supply constraints
HTC has a problem. It’s a good problem to have, but it’s a problem none the less. They can’t make enough devices utilizing the 3.7 inch OLED display they’ve been using since the launch of the Nexus One in January. The issue is wreaking so much havoc that they’ve decided to switch to Sony’s “Super…
Samsung Intensity II (SCH-U460) heading to Verizon
A new, still unannounced Samsung phone has been caught in the wild – Samsung Intensity II (SCH-U460). We don’t have all the details, but we do know the basics. First of all, we’re talking about a low-to-mid range device made for heavy text and instant messaging users. Moreover, I would expect it will also come…
India unveils a $35 tablet computer prototype
India has unveiled the prototype of a $35 basic touchscreen tablet computer aimed at students, which it hopes to bring into production by 2011. As you can expect, the device runs Linux, and it doesn’t have a hard drive – memory cards will be used for all the storage. The tablet is/will be made to…
Flipboard turns your iPad into a social magazine
Flipboard is a new iPad app made to turn your beloved tablet computer into a social magazine. It does that by mining the hundreds of millions of web links posted each day on Facebook and Twitter. Your “job” is to enter your Twitter and Facebook logins and let the app do its magic. It will…
CNN launches international news app for the iPhone and iPod Touch
CNN is bringing its news app to the rest of the world, outside of the U.S. Designed NOT to be “yet another news app,” but much more – CNN for iPhone offers personalization features, access to iReport (CNN’s user-generated news community), ability to share favorite stories, photos and videos with friends and much more. Some…
Defence firm Raytheon launches iPhone app for missile training
We’ve already talked about Raytheon’s plans to embrace the iPhone (and Android for that matter). Now the US defence firm unveiled Patriot Crew Drill, a multiple-choice game designed as a “refresher tool” for missile troops. As expected, you won’t be able to download this game from the AppStore. It’s not intended for Average Joe to…
