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Well, iOS 4.1 beta and SDK are available to iPhone developers now and nothing seems to be too different. Almost nothing significant at all. That means the antenna issue with the iPhone 4 is still very much there. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I highly doubt that any amount of software…
TheVerizon Motorola Droid X is one sexy piece of kit, and is one of the best devices we’ve got our hands on in recent history. That said, the ever-growing group of developers and modders will be a little annoyed that the Droid X has a locked down bootloader, which means the chances of getting it…
Microsoft Bing will come to Android as a full-fledged app in the next six weeks, the software giant said. The company already has a full app for rival Apple’s iPhone and it’s actually pretty cool. The Bing app for Apple iPhone allows you to search the web, find directions with its map and it even…
Apple has turned the smartphone world on its head when it first introduced the iPhone. Since then, other major players have been making tremendous advances and seeing a resurgence in prominence. Others are dangerousy falling behind. According to a survey conducted by ChangeWave Research, now is the time that most folks are planning to buy…
Microsoft is hoping that some fat stacks of cheddar will help it catch up to the Apple App Store and Google Android Market, as it has been paying developers to create programs for its upcoming Windows Phone 7. It’s not giving them bags of cash per se, but a report by Business Week indicates Microsoft…
We’ve seen Android devices getting rooted before they are officially available, and the US variants of the Samsung Galaxy S are no exception. The US Samsung Galaxy S variants have apparently already gotten root and are ready for your hacking pleasure. The international version of the Galaxy S root method seems to work just as…
The Verizon Motorola Droid X is slated to land on US shores tomorrow, July 15th, 2010. Come tomorrow morn, some Verizon stores will open their doors early to give eager Droid X fans a chance to be one of the first humans on planet Earth to own the latest and greatest Android phone from Verizon.…
The Windows Mobile-powered HTC HD2 keeps getting hacked with Android. We’d previously seen HTC’s big-screened HD2 running Android 2.1 OS and Ubuntu, and now we’ve got some HTC Sense and Froyo lovin’ on the Windows Mobile device. It’s taken some time to get here with the HD2. Many people just entertained the thought of Android…
With its upcoming Windows Phone 7 just on the horizon, you’d expect Microsoft to throw a few jabs at the Apple iPhone. However, you wouldn’t expect it to associate one of its own products with failure while doing so. That’s exactly what Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner did during the keynote speech at the…
Apple has acquired an online mapping company Poly9 and this could be the first step in its divorce from Google and its services on the iOS devices. The company creates mapping software and one of its products offers a “cross-browser, cross-platform 3D globe which does not require any download.” Does that sound like Google Earth…