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Lenovo took the wraps off of its first Android Ice Cream Sandwich tablet a few days ago, the IdeaTab S2109. A few important specs are missing at this point — including the always essential pricing and release date — but a video Lenovo uploaded to YouTube seems to do the tablet justice. It has a…
Hardware expert Aaron Vronko, CEO of Rapid Repair, believes the WiFi issues some owners of the new iPad are reporting aren’t a hardware problem. Instead, they could be quickly fixed with a future software update. Apple acknowledged the problems a few days ago and started looking into them. “Symptoms can include, but are not limited…
After giving in to the pressure from consumers, AT&T finally started unlocking contract-free iPhones as of April 8th. Well for once, AT&T is actually going above expectations to make the process easier. You don’t even have to visit your local AT&T store to unlock the iPhone; you can do it online right from home. First…
Some things just don’t go together. Peanut butter and broccoli. Beer and cereal. Grandparents and skinny jeans. Polarized sunglasses and iPads. Wait, what? While attempting to do his best Corey Hart impression, ZDNet’s Jason D. O’Grady quickly found out that the iPad (all variants) go completely black in portrait mode when you attempt to view the iPad…
Sprint has announced the first test market for its upcoming 4G LTE network, and the selected market is leaving many scratching their heads. Citizens of Kankakee, Illinois, a small town of about 27,500 people 60 miles south of Chicago, now find themselves in the center of Sprint’s LTE rollout. We have to wonder how many…
In a rather unexpected bit of news, Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion this morning and we asked you lovely readers what you thought of the deal. You’ll find the answers below thanks to Storify. Instagram was about 551 days old at the time of the acquisition and it could be the first billion-dollar app…
Facebook is acquiring Instagram and the team will be joining the world’s largest social network, according to a status update from Mark Zuckerberg. Reports suggest that the deal is worth up to $1 billion in cash and shares. Instagram blew up as an iPhone-only way to share photos with various filters. The service attracted nearly…
BlackBerry PlayBook owners will soon lose the ability to sideload applications onto their tablets. RIM will be pushing an update to all existing PlayBooks that will remove this option to prevent application piracy. RIM’s VP of Developer Relations Alec Saunders broke the news via Twitter, stating that the move is geared at curbing application piracy,…
The Nokia Lumia 900 officially became available yesterday and some of the early returns look promising. The folks over at Laptop Mag noticed that the flagship Windows Phone climbed to the top of Amazon’s sales list, ahead of some high-end Android devices. No doubt, the price has to help as you can get the Lumia…
Despite the release of the Lumia 900, industry analysts are still painting a dark picture when it comes to Windows Phone’s 2012 outlook. Market research company ABI Research claims that the Windows Phone platform will only account for 2% of the estimated 36 billion applications downloaded in 2012. Though this represents nearly double Windows Phone’s 2011…