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We knew that Motorola would spin off its mobile division into an independent company in early 2011 but the company has finally given a date for the Motorola split: January 4, 2011. According to the company, the Motorola split will entail: The distribution will be made prior to the market open on Jan. 4, 2011…
If you’re a mobile music fan with an Android phone, then you probably already know doubleTwist and its multimedia syncing software. Well, the company is taking it up a notch and offering wireless syncing of your music, playlists, photos and videos. To get the wireless syncing, dubbed AirSync, you have to download the free doubleTwist…
Nvidia has decided to address the need for multi-core processing in our mobile phones with the Tegra 2, much like most personal computers did just half a decade ago. Everyone loves to call their smartphones mini computers that fit right in their pockets, and that’s basically what they are. We can view videos, play 3D…
Where should you go for a high-end tablet? No, you shouldn’t go to TJ Maxx, you should head over to Office Depot to pick up the ViewSonic G tablet because this Android-powered device looks pretty powerful. How powerful? Well, the ViewSonic G Android tablet is powered by the Tegra 2 processor, which has performed quite…
Although Acer has totally been under the radar in the U.S. in terms of smartphones, the company is hoping to change that with a some Windows Phone 7 handsets. And while we’ve been under the impression that the manufacturer would be building Windows Phone 7 smartphones, Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci confirmed it today in an…
Held in high esteem due to its BlackBerry-like portrait QWERTY keyboard, the Dell Venue Pro has had a rather inglorious launch when it went on sale with Microsoft on November 8th. The handset hit the wild in early November and was quickly plagued with reports of poor WiFi connectivity, units shipping with engineering sample batteries,…
Winamp is now ready for business on the Android platform as it leaves its beta stages for a full, version 1.0 release for the general public. The nice thing about the Winamp media player for Android is, well, it’s not the default media player on Android, which is terrible. Unless you’re already using and in…
The Federal Communications Commission voted 5-0 to write rules which will eventually take away spectrum from major broadcasters in order to allocate more airwaves for mobile broadband. This is part of the long-term plan by the FCC to avoid a crunch – as more and more people use mobile devices to get on line, there…
One has to wonder how some iPhone apps manage to get approved by the Apple app store, but some weird ones have slipped through. This time, a rather offensive anti-gay marriage iPhone application caused a stir and a petition was signed to have it removed from the app store. The app was called Manhattan Declaration,…
The last guess we had at Windows phone sales figures at launch was something in the neighbourhood of 40,000 units, but the number of Windows phone Facebook app users may crank up that minimum to 135,000 after being on the market for a few weeks. Whether you want to decide that the actual sales numbers…