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As the chatter about AT&T losing exclusivity of the Apple iPhone grows louder, AT&T is insisting that it isn’t worried about how it will compete without having Apple’s smartphone all to itself. At the D conference, AT&T’s Glenn Lurie reiterated that the company has other competitive advantages that go beyond just having the iPhone. He…
The rumors about the Sony Ericsson PlayStation Phone with Android 2.3 Gingerbread have steadily been flowing out and the latest ones pegs the release date in March 2011. According to ITProPortal, the PlayStation Phone will launch in March after being officially debuted in February at the Mobile World Congress show. This does seem to make…
US Cellular is offering customers another Android phone in time for the holidays, the LG Optimus U. This Android 2.2 Froyo-toting phone will be free after a $80 rebate. Sounds good to us. The Optimus U is basically an LG Optimus S (which is a Sprint phone – hence the “S” in the model name),…
There are more signs that the just-announced Google Nexus S was very close to being called the Nexus Two. Google’s YouTube page for the Android superphone calls to a domain called “nexustwophone.appspot.com.” This is despite the fact that the company’s CEO Eric Schmidt said the company wouldn’t be making a sequel to the world’s first…
A little over a year ago, Google announced its intention to transform its web browser into a full-blown operating system in and of itself. Today, they’ve kicked off a pilot program in the U.S. where they will lend out laptops with 3G connectivity over Verizon to a select group to try it all out and…
If you’re looking to get a good Facebook fix on the Apple iPad, you can scale up the iPhone app or use the Safari browser, but there’s no iPad app from the world’s largest social network. That’s why Friendly has been very successful selling a Facebook browser program and the company has just made its…
Windows Phone 7 has been on the market for close to a month now, and Microsoft has decided to hold back on sales numbers so far. After being asked by The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg during the D: Dive Into Mobile conference for figures, Microsoft VP for mobile Joe Belfiore said that it’s “too…
Everyone’s favorite Windows Mobile device gone Android, the HD2, has just been blessed with its own Android 2.3 Gingerbread port. This comes from none other than XDA-Developers, and while the port is not available at the moment, we can expect a team of skilled developers to be working on this to get it up and…
Is the force strong with you or do you know someone who has the force strong in them? No matter because THQ has teamed up with ngmoco to deliver a Star Wars game that doesn’t require you to be one with the force. In fact, all you need to have is an iPhone and a…
The Nexus S broke cover and was made official yesterday by Google and Samsung. The successor to the Nexus One was confirmed to be an unlocked GSM handset that supports T-Mobile’s 1700MHz flavor of 3G. Today, a rumor fresh from the Android-o-sphere suggests the handset may rock a CDMA/LTE radio and land on Verizon Wireless.…