Well, we knew the HTC Desire was coming to multiple regional carriers but it didn’t take Cellular South long to claim this cool-looking Android device. Users on Cellular South will be getting quite a powerful handset, as the device is essentially a Nexus One with HTC’s Sense software layered on top. That means you’ll be…
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UK Parliament Sticking with BlackBerry, No iPhone Due to Security
In a recent publication, the UK Parliament addressed a variety of questions and concerns, spanning the gamut from food poisoning to public education. Among them was the question about which Government employees used an iPhone or BlackBerry, to which Secretary of State for Health Simon Burns replied that BlackBerry is the only device approved by…
WunderRadio Streaming Radio Hits Android
You can never have too many radio streaming apps, and WunderRadio by Weather Underground is another to add to your Android home screen. So if you’ve been running with Android and getting a little envious of your friends using the WunderRadio app on the iPhone, BlackBerry and even Windows Mobile, you can envy no longer.…
Diving into San Francisco’s cell phone radiation law
We talked about San Francisco’s move to make retailers label the amount of radiation given off by cell phones yesterday and we wanted to dive into the full text of the proposed legislation. The San Francisco cell phone move would make retailers display signs about the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) that each cell phone has.…
Geometry Wars: Touch Hits the iPhone as a Universal App
Around the time when the iPad was released, I didn’t expect a game like Geometry Wars to be released. Given how popular the original and its sequel were on the Xbox LIVE Arcade, it certainly seemed like a no-brainer for Activision to release the game on the iPad. It looks like iPhone owners can now…
Droid Does: Droid Incredible lets you play Xbox Live from on top of a bridge
Ever been on top of the Bob Kerrey pedestrian bridge with a Verizon HTC Droid Incredible, Xbox, Macbook Pro, HDTV, a couple of speakers, a power supply, and a rack to hold it all to see if you can play Xbox live? No, you probably haven’t, but these guys sure did. They used their hacked-together…
CBS Hearts the iPad, Tests HTML5 Video
Poor Adobe Flash is still out of the Apple game, and it has been forcing content providers to jump onto the HTML5 bandwagon. With magazines like Wired already on the case, CBS is next up as it tests video and media that is iPad-friendly. CBS Interactive Senior Vice President Anthony Soohoo said last month that…
HTC Sense stores images of bookmarked web pages
There has been a lot of hubbub about HTC Sense devices (like the Droid Incredible or the EVO 4G) keeping thumbnails of your bookmarked web pages and this is drawing some concerns about privacy. The problem is that even after doing a factory reset of your device, the handset will still store thumbnail images of…
Deal Alert: AT&T and Verizon Palm Pre Plus just one cent for June
For those of you out there that aren’t really keen on the Android superphones already on or coming to market in the near future – not to mention the new iPhone 4 dropping next week – your best alternative right now might be the Palm Pre Plus from AT&T or Verizon. Powered by the webOS,…
E3 2010: Square Enix Bringing Final Fantasy Tactics, Secret of Mana to iPhone
Square Enix has been giving a lot of iPhone love as of late and it looks like the iPhone lovin’ isn’t going to stop any time soon. The company is set to release two very big older titles on the iPhone platform, Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of Lions & Secret of Mana. Final Fantasy…