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When Apple announced that the three year old iPhone 3GS was going to get iOS 6, that was a huge slap in the face to everyone who bitches and moans about not getting the latest version of Android on their non-Nexus device. Two weeks later Microsoft announced that Windows Phone 8 is going to require…
Roughly a year ago we talked about eBay’s acquisition of mobile payment company Zong with the idea to integrate some of its capabilities into PayPal. A year later, we have PayPal announcing acquisition of card.io, the company that provides technology for developers to capture credit card information by using the camera on a smartphone. Instead…
Don’t say we haven’t “told you so.” Canada’s Rogers Wireless is now officially selling the Sony Xperia ion, asking $49.99 for the device on a three-year contract. Sans any long-term commitments, the price is $549.99, and there are also not-that-affordable one- and two-year contract options, costing $499.99 and $449.99, respectively. Again, the Xperia ion is…
The Huawei MediaPad 10 FHD, which was announced alongside Ascend D Quad at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, will be released in late August. Yu Chengdong, Huawei’s head of the Consumer Business Group and Senior Vice President of Huawei Technologies, turned to Sina Weibo (Chinese version of Twitter) to spread the good news, saying that…
Sprint announced that two of its smartphones, HTC EVO 3D and HTC EVO Design, will finally get the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich updates “by early August.” And while exact dates were not unveiled, we do know what will be changed: New “refined, evolved” UI that is “simple, beautiful and useful” Face Unlock – so…
TELUS keeps expanding the coverage area of its LTE network in order to hit the goal of reaching 25 million Canadians by the end of 2012. The latest markets to get the 4G speeds include Barrie, Bolton, Orangeville, St. Thomas, Kingston and Muskoka, while Montreal and Calgary got some improvements, as well. The new markets…
China is already the world’s largest smartphone market and by the 2017, 80% of the population could own a smartphone. The forecast comes from research2guidance, which points to two factors that could lead to such an increase in smartphone adoption: the country’s buoyant middle-class and the availability of low-end, one-thousand Yuan (about $150) smartphones. Continuous…
Jay & Silent Bob are going mobile with Ice Cap Games launching two iOS games featuring the popular comic duo from the Kevin Smith films – Jay & Silent Bob in Let Us Dance and Jay & Silent Bob in Too Fat to Fly. In the first game, which BTW is free to download, you’ll…
Mobile phone sales have skyrocketed in the past decade due to significant advances in technology and new innovative trends in the market. Web devices have begun to reshape every aspect of our society. Understanding the impact that phones have in our world can give perspective on the accomplishments of technology as well as a prospective…
HTC is hurting. Their devices aren’t meeting expectations in Europe, the One X faced some legal issues in the United States that delayed sales, and Samsung has proven that they have better relationships with the operators than even Apple has with AT&T and Verizon. According to a report from DigiTimes, roughly 80% of HTC’s revenues…