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Samsung has silently started rolling out Ice Cream Sandwich update for its Galaxy Tab 7.7 tablet. I say “silently” since it’s not an over-the-air affair but the one that requires Samsung’s Kies software running on your PC. If you don’t want to mess with Kies, you can always wait for the OTA update, which is…
Canada’s WIND Mobile will get the Huawei Ascend P1 later this summer. The information comes from the press release which talks about the sweepstakes organized by Huawei Canada, WIND and Alliance Films to promote the upcoming blockbuster Expendables 2 and Huawei’s Android smartphone. Canadians interested to participate in the “WIND Mobile Expendables 2 Sweepstakes” can…
British phone retailer Clove has started accepting pre-orders for the newly announced Sony Xperia miro, asking 126 GBP (about $197) for the unlocked, SIM-free device. The entry-level smartphone offers a solid bang for the back, packing an out-of-box Ice Cream Sandwich experience and a number of other goodies like a 3.5-inch HGVA touchscreen, HSPA and…
NAVIGON has once again updated its iPhone app with new features. Version 2.1 introduces several handy enhancements, including: Google Street View – which is accessible both at the start of navigation and near the end when you’re approaching your destination. NAVIGON Cockpit – that displays relevant driving data in real time on a cockpit-like screen.…
In its latest report, Juniper Research is looking at the in-app mobile ad space, forecasting that companies will spend $7.1 billion by 2015 on this form of advertising (up from $2.4 billion this year) and will help triple the spend on mobile advertising by 2017. According to the research company, the increasing spend will be…
Remember the Alcatel OT986 aka TCL S900? If you don’t, let me quickly remind you that it’s the single-best smartphone wearing Alcatel’s brand — it comes with TI’s 1.5GHz dual-core CPU, 4.5-inch 720p IPS display, 5-megapixel rear camera, 2-megapixel front-facing one, 1GB of RAM, HSPA and Wi-Fi connectivity, 8GB of built-in memory, microSD expansion slot,…
Microsoft knows its next version of Windows Phone must be rock solid in order to get more users on board. In that sense, the next iteration of the platform will pack a number of new features, including (here’s the news) a “one handed and next gen soft keyboard” — which will most definitely compliment the…
After the iPhone version and the one optimized for the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, Vivid Games is bringing the Bitmap Brothers’ hit-game Speedball 2 Evolution to rest of the Android community. Actually, those of you with old Android smartphones won’t be able to run the game properly, but if you bought your phone in the…
Today’s infographic visualizes the mobile landscape in Canada using the data from Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Agency and comScore. I was kinda surprised that only 74% of the country’s population own a mobile phone, which is a much lower percentage than any European country. Then again, of those who do have a mobile phone, 48% have…
Sotiris Makrygiannis, who according to his LinkedIn profile is “Director of Applications, MeeGo” at Nokia, has just tweeted that after 12 years with the company it’s time to call it quits. He sent several additional tweets saying how he remembers the hard work his team put into the N9, that February 11th, 2011, was a…