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While I was walking down the street yesterday, I decided to see if my Verizon Motorola Droid X had any updates available for it, and it did. But after updating, there were pretty much no noticeable differences. The update pushed to the pre-release Droid X in my hands isn’t the Android 2.2 Froyo update, and…
Apple might have the Retina Display in its iPhone 4, but Samsung is going full-throttle with their Super AMOLED technology in the Samsung Galaxy S. The talk of the town (good and bad) might be all about iPhone right now, but the Galaxy S is right around the corner and ready to take on the…
Facebook is quickly becoming a major force in the mobile space and the social networking company has no plans to stop. At the MobileBeat 2010 Conference, Facebook’s Erick Tseng said the company will be making strong efforts to become a mobile platform. At his first major public appearance since leaving Google for Facebook, Tseng said…
The Motorola Charm was announced last week to scattered, half-hearted applause, and today we’ve got word that it will be releasing on August 25. Apparently it was originally planned for an early launch, but some battery life problems have extended the testing phase. Just as a quick reminder, the Motorola charm packs a 3 megapixel…
Showing reckless abandon to the growing pre-eminence of the official BlackBerry Twitter client, HootSuite has announced that they’re taking submissions to participate in a private beta for an upcoming BlackBerry app. HootSuite has a few great things that set it apart from RIM’s Twitter client, like support for multiple accounts, multiple members, multiple social networks,…
Conveniently close to RIM’s announcement of BlackBerry Protect, Microsoft has announced that Windows Phone 7 will include a web element called Windows Phone Live, which will include 25 GB of multimedia sharing and syncing through SkyDrive, Find My Phone, which will let you hone in on your phone’s GPS location via PC, along with remote…
Applications like Opera Mini, Layar and Lookout topped GetJar’s first annual Gettie Awards. Team IntoMobile was there last night and it was quite an interesting experience. I’ll get to the winners first, as GetJar was seeking the best Java, Symbian, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, iPhone and Android apps. The winners received some monetary reward (I don’t…
This weekend we heard that the upcoming BlackBerry tablet, code-named Cobalt, would have a forward- and rear-facing camera as well as a 1 GHz processor, and today we’ve got Flash support to add to the mix of rumoured specs. This would be a huge differentiator from the iPad, and give BlackBerry an honest advantage in…
We were worried when we heard rumors that the Motorola Droid X will be in short supply when it launches this Thursday because the Android-powered handset is a stellar device that many people will want to get. Verizon has officially responded to the reports though and the carrier said it will be ready for the…
Turning your Apple iPhone into a remote control with an IR dongle is nothing new but the My TV Remote app caught my eye because it’s introducing some cool social networking integration and it comes in at a reasonable price. It’s clear to me that this whole social networking thing isn’t a fad and I…