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The HTC One X is still one of our favorite devices of the year so far, but one thing that may hold a few people back is its custom user interface, Sense. The software on the One X is hardly bad, and many actually prefer it, but we’ll take stock Android over anything if we…
RIM is getting ready to layoff some 3,000 jobs as it continues with the company’s restructuring process. This slow trickle of job loss started months ago, when the company got rid of the first 2,000 people. Now the next round of layoffs will begin sometime next week, according to a trusted source of BGR. The…
Apple has long been rumored to be replacing the 30-pin dock connector that has been an essential hardware component in every iOS device with a smaller 19-pin dock connector, which would create more space inside for other hardware parts. Now leaked images put out by Cult of Mac suggest the dock connector might be even smaller…
Well, look what we have here. Sprint may have something up its sleeves to lure new customers in. The Now Network is readying a special deal that might end up being too hard to turn down. Thanks to a report from TechnoBuffalo, we have an image which suggests the third largest wireless provider in the…
Now that Jelly Bean is out, HTC is under pressure to get its version of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on its devices. The Taiwanese company recently confirmed on Facebook that some of their older handsets will receive ICS by the end of August. The list of devices slated to get ICS include the Droid…
iOS “specialist” Sonny Dickson decided to mockup some screenshots of what apps might look like on the next iPhone with a 4-inch display. They look quite accurate — the screenshots are specifically taller, not wider, and larger portions of content now fill the screen in a way that was previously only possible on Android or…
Google is unveiling a new feature aimed at “understanding your intent” more when you perform a search. The Voice Search functionality will launch in an update as part of the standard Google Search app, but it focuses much less on searching and a lot more on just getting you the answers you want as quickly…
Yesterday, we heard a rumor that the new iPhone launching later this year will be nearly 2mm thinner than the iPhone 4S. While we were a bit skeptical that Apple would be able to achieve this, another rumor out of 9 to 5 Mac shows alleged images of a thinner, higher-capacity battery that would in part…
Box has updated both its iOS and Android applications. The wildly popular cloud storage service introduced some pretty cool features in its new versions on both mobile operating systems. First, the iOS update adds an incredible feature similar to what its competitor Dropbox brings, which is the ability to save photos and videos to your…
If anyone still doubts that tablets are the future, a story out of N4BB may just convince you. Sure, police departments are known for embracing technology that assist officers in solving crimes and teaching ne’er do wells that drugs are bad (mmkay?), but a program made by Intergraph for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet could see a…