OtterBox just announced that their first iPhone 4 case is now available, which will offer a ton of protection against impact as well as ward off the vile Death Grip. The Defender Series case is comprised of three layers: a scratch- and water-resistant screen, a hard plastic case, and a rubber skin on the outside.…
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BlackBerry Gets Cloud-Based Music Streaming via SugarSync
It’s been awhile since we’ve heard from the SugarSync file storage and sync service; last year, they released an Android app, and a year before that they came out on iPhone, shortly after the BlackBerry app. Today, they announced that on top of the normal remote file access and backup, they will also allow mobile…
Sprint launches account management app for EVO 4G, BlackBerry
Sprint wants to make it easier for you to manage your wireless account and the third-largest U.S. carrier has launched a Sprint Zone app for the EVO 4G, Samsung Intercept and BlackBerry Bold. The Sprint Zone app allows customers to use their handsets to pay bills, monitor mobile usage, and receive news and potentially deals…
Gowalla for BlackBerry Updated with Photos and Comments
Gowalla’s social check-in app for BlackBerry has updated their beta to include commenting on others’ check-ins and photo uploading to spots, along with a few nice keyboard shortcuts. It still seems like they’re hung up on the iPhone’s way of doing notifications of friend check-ins (through obnoxious popups), but maybe someday before 1.0 they’ll discover…
Is your Motorola Droid X having screen issues? [Update: Verizon responds]
It’s only been a few days since the launch of the Motorola Droid X on Verizon but we’re seeing scattered reports of users with screen issues. The forums are howling with a few reports of dead pixels and flickering screens. I could imagine this would be the worst feeling if you actually waited in line…
MOG brings mobile music to iPhone, Android
MOG wants to make it easier for you to rock out on the go and the streaming music company has just released its mobile music apps for Apple iPhone and Android. The app, which we first spotted a few months ago, will let you stream any song from it’s catalog of more than eight million…
HTC Wildfire Coming to Bell
Bell’s internal sales portal is prominently showing off the HTC Wildfire, which is a slightly scaled-down version of the Desire coming to Telus. The HTC Wildfire rocks a5 megapixel camera, 3.2″ QVGA touchscreen, Android 2.1 with Sense, GPS, Wi-Fi, 3G, and an FM tuner. Sense adds a couple of interesting customizations, like getting an exploded…
Samsung’s future AMOLED screens : flexible and unbreakable[VIDEO]
Put this up on the top of the coolest AMOLED display technology we’ve probably ever seen in the mobile space. Samsung is working on new AMOLED displays that are not only flexible, but unbreakable as well. We’ve seen flexible displays before, but it’s not too often we see a demo of this kind. The video…
Motorola Droid 2 to rock Android 2.2, MotoBlur
If you were worried that the upcoming Motorola Droid 2 wouldn’t launch with the latest version of Android, have no fear because the leaked shot above clearly shows that the next Motorola superphone will be rocking Froyo. That means you’ll get full Adobe Flash support, increased overall performance, a snappier web browser and native tethering…
Adobe FlashTime brings video calling to Android
Adobe is having a little fun with its growing rivalry with Apple, as the company is showing off a two-way video calling app on Android that uses Flash. What’s it called? FlashTime, of course. As you can see from the video below, the Android app leverages Adobe Flash to enable Nexus One users to do…