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You may recall the iPad-in-the-kitchen-cabinets video I posted a little while back. I get a kick out of custom uses for today’s technology, especially when it comes to the iPad. Having an iPad mounted in a kitchen cabinet sounded ridiculous to me at first, but after watching the video a few times I had to…
The First Else, which we had spent some time with at Mobile World Congress and the Consumer Electronics Show before that, has been officially canceled. While there was encouraging interest in the device by potential partners, management was not able to confirm a deal on terms acceptable to Emblaze to proceed to the production of…
The iPhone 4 “Death Grip“, basically holding the device in your left hand and then watching the signal degrade one bar at a time until there is no more signal to be had, is a wildly reported issue. How could Apple have missed out on such a basic flaw? Simple really. They’re all about keeping…
With Apple moving the iPhone 4 units at a record pace, soon every kid in the block will own one. Nouveau riche of this century doesn’t like the idea of having the same device as their neighbourhood does, hence companies like Gresso are addressing the “needs” of the mentioned rich folks. Making a limited luxury…
Android-based OPhone platform for China is hitting the version 2.0 with the launch of Samsung Oscar I7680. We’re not sure what exactly is included in the update, but we do have some numbers to share. OPhone 2.0 comes with: More than 1,000 improvements in UI/UE, including support for customization, preview, and third-party download of themes.…
It was back in March when we talked about the great success Doodle Jump has achieved in the AppStore. At that time, the game has hit the 3 million paid downloads mark and now, about 3 months later, the number climbed to 5 million! Impressive. Again. Doodle Jump is so popular that it even has…
I haven’t heard of Naviextras.com until I got a press release from iGO Navigation solutions informing me/us that I could rent their maps (as opposed to buying them) from the mentioned website. If you remember, Nokia used to offer the same kind of service for Ovi Maps only to make the navigation free of charge…
EA is offering a free game for the Samsung Wave owners – Need for Speed Shift. Actually, only the first 1.2 million folks will be able to grab the game through Samsung Apps, but that’s about a total number of Bada-powered device owners at the moment, or at least me thinks so. As expected, the…
ABI Research is forecasting that USB modem shipments will reach nearly 81 million units this year! As a matter of fact, according to the research company’s “Cellular Modem Product Tracking Database,” more than 50% of the modem models now available in the market utilize the USB interface. According to ABI’s principal analyst Jeff Orr, one…
I’m not sure I understand why it took so much for Nokia to release the firmware update for the 32GB version of the X6 (when we know the X6 16GB got the same firmware update in April). Whatever the reason behind this strange move is (which effectively made the X6 32GB buyers suckers), the good…