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TomTom will be previewing its Android app at IFA in Berlin. The popular navigation service provider said that the application will launch at some point in October of this year. Price was not unveiled though we guess they can’t be much more expensive than what other companies are charging for. From the press release: TomTom’s…
LG unveiled a new member of its L-series of devices – L9. As you can imagine, this particular smartphone is more powerful than previous devices (L3, L5 and L7) announced at Mobile World Congress. It comes with a 4.7-inch IPS display (screen resolution was not mentioned), 1GB of RAM, 1GHz dual-core processor, 5-megapixel rear camera,…
It’s IFA time and Samsung has thus far only unveiled new memory cards, namely 64GB UHS-I class SD and microSD cards. The new memory is described as the best fit for modern LTE-based smartphones and tablets, providing read/write speeds of up to 80MB/40MB per second (SD) and 70MB/20MB per second (microSD). That’s pretty fast, hence…
Isis will finally launch its mobile payments service in September with citizens of Austin, TX and Salt Lake City first to get it. We’ve no doubts the expansion to other places will follow soon afterwards, and in the meantime T-Mobile is rolling out a new update for the Samsung Galaxy S II that will make…
You may’ve heard about Google Play’s change of the developer policy which will take into effect on September 1st, 2012. Each developer will have to meet individual compliance in order to avoid the risk of suspension with Google Play. The idea is to better monitor apps, avoid spam and malware apps, and eventually provide end-users…
It’s amazing how yesterday’s hot hardware becomes cheap so fast. Take the Motorola XOOM 2 Media Edition for instance. It was announced less than a year ago and its price is already heavy slashed, with Expansys offering the Wi-Fi only 16GB model for 149 GBP. In U.S. dollars that translates into $235, making for quite…
Barclays says that over 80% of the British public now recognize the symbol for contactless payments when displayed at retail outlets. The bank has been running contactless payment trials for several years, and these payments now account for more than 1 million transactions per month. According to bank’s research, 61% of people prefer using cards…
The FCC gave a formal blessing last week of Verizon’s deal with multiple cable companies that saw Big Red acquire lots of AWS spectrum the company needs to build out its LTE network. One of the contingencies in the deal was that Verizon would need to agree to spectrum swaps with T-Mobile USA and Leap…
Firefox for Android received an update that brought speed and power enhancements to tablets powered by the green robot. For those of you out there who still use Firefox as your browser of choice, this update is much-needed. The new version brings a slew of fixes which include the following: Native UI for tablets, including…
MetroPCS is on the verge of offering its customers many more options than it has in the past. Recently, the small regional carrier illustrated its plans of releasing a handful of phones in a roadmap, many of which carried LTE technology. One of those phones called the CoolPad Quattro was announced today. The company did…