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We’ve already told you Sprint will launch a successor to the Motorola Photon smartphone in the near future. Well a Moto-made device marked with XT897 has been caught at the FCC and we have reasons to believe this is the phone we’ve been telling you about earlier. As you can imagine, it’s an LTE-enabled handset…
If everyone can have its own UI, why would Huawei be any different? Their brand new Emotion UI will soon be ready for download for select devices, including Huawei Honor, Huawei Ascend P1, and Huawei Ascend P1E, with D quad models most likely shipping with the new UI pre-installed. The coming soon (download) page is…
You’ve probably heard that Google’s Nexus 7 is an awesome device, offering quite a bang for the buck. Folks all around the Interwebs are delighted with this 7-inch tablet with many of us waiting for the first chance to grab one as soon as it’s available outside of the U.S. However, you/we may like how…
Canada’s Koodo Mobile is about to get its first Windows Phone device – Nokia Lumia 610. The carrier turned to Facebook to spread the good news saying: FACEBOOK EXCLUSIVE: We’re launching the Nokia Lumia 610 this Friday! It’s sleek, it’s fast and it offers one touch access to all of your social networks. We do…
Samsung knows hardware isn’t the long-term bet due to falling margins, hence it keeps expanding its portfolio of apps and services. The latest such endeavor is the S Health app, which was announced at the time when the Galaxy S III was officially launched. As you can imagine, it [app] allows users to record health-related…
We love to read stories of mobile technology helping solve some real-world problem. So we were glad to learn that Fujitsu is working with Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) on an indoor support system for the blind. The system relies on ultra wide band (UWB) technology and a smartphone to provide…
Rovio unveiled a new teaser for its upcoming game Amazing Alex. Unfortunately, the teaser isn’t that revealing though we do guess the game will sport some sort of Incredible Machine mechanics, packing 100 levels spread across “4 fun locations” from the get-go with occasional regular updates. Moreover, there will be some sort of level builder…
The fact that the mobile app space is getting super-crowded prompted a number of companies to enter the app recommendation space. Obviously there’s still room for growth, with a new entrant, youAPPi, announcing its offering and freshly raised money. The company managed to secure $1 million in the seed round of funding to bring its…
Amazon, who many of us consider to be nothing more than an online retailer, started making hardware in 2007 when they released the Kindle. The Kindle, in case you’ve been living under a rock, is a small device with an electronic ink display that lets you read books. Subsequent models were introduced that were cheaper…
Can you name a single software project that was backed by a consortium of wireless operators that ended up being a successful product? No, you can’t. So why is it that the internet is going nuts over the news that Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica, and Sprint are going to back Mozilla’s new mobile operating system, Firefox…