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If you’re like many other people who received an Apple iPad or iPad mini this year for the holidays, let me first congratulate you. It’s always fun to get a shiny new gadget and as an iPad owner for almost two years now, I can tell you that you will most likely be able to…
Concept phones are always fun to look at, even if they are so over the top that you know it will never exist. Hey, that’s why they call them concept phones, right? Well, it looks like the much-anticipated Samsung Galaxy S IV has received such treatment, and there are enough bells and whistles to make any…
Like Apple did for the entire iTunes Store at the end of the year, Google is out with its own list of the best Android apps of 2012 as chosen by Tavares Ford, a merchandising manager at Google Play. “Some launched in 2012 while others issued updates that achieved a great combination of utility, beauty…
Nowadays, talking about your smartphone has become like talking about the weather to people, but with all of the weather applications out there, there’s no reason you can’t do both. We’re sure that there are many people out there who simply want a weather application that works well for them and never look into another…
It’s been a wild year for iOS, Android, and the entire smartphone and tablet market as a whole. There’s nothing like ending the year with a bang than with the holiday shopping season, when nowadays it seems like all anyone ever gets anymore is a smartphone or tablet. If there’s anything to back up that…
Google has been offering free calls within the US and Canada for quite some time now. But they’re obviously not satisfied with the number of users yet, so they decided to prolong the offer for another year. That’s right, you’ll be able to make free domestic calls through 2013! The way I see it, this…
Not sure whether you’ve heard about Lytro or not; they make an interesting camera that allows users to first take a shot and re-focus later. I don’t understand their technology but you can learn more about it from Lytro’s website. Toshiba is apparently working on something similar. Their 1cm-thick camera module will house an array…
Mark Cuban, the famous owner of the Dallas Mavericks, spurred some serious debate at Reddit after saying that its new Nokia Lumia phone (we guess it’s Lumia 920) “crushes” the iPhone 5. He also says his other phone is a Samsung Android device which is most likely the Galaxy S III (though he wasn’t specific)…
Reuters is running an interesting piece that looks at the two tech giants, Amazon and Google, and their relations. The authors, Alexei Oreskovic and Alistair Barr, suggest that next year we’ll see the two companies confronting each other in a big way. Amazon is offering its own tablet with a special software layer that runs…
It’s a looming recession in Spain and it’s no surprise that more and more people are ditching their (secondary?) mobile phones. In fact, during the month of October, some 486,000 phones were cut off, representing a 3.8% year-on-year drop in mobile phone numbers. The leading operator, Telefonica-owned Movistar lost 284,000 lines, with its market share…