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If you’re looking for an interesting case for your Galaxy Nexus but aren’t impressed with Verizon’s current selection of cases and want something with a little more spunk, then you may like Boxwave’s DuoSuit case. This case may not like anything special but it’s still a unique that some may like the look of. What…
Last August, HTC said all its phones going forward would be released with an unlocked bootloader. It also promised to unlock bootloaders for some older models as well. We thought the Taiwanese company meant the Incredible 2 or other recent phones released in the last year or so. Leave it to HTC to surprise us…
Apple’s iPad 2 and Amazon’s Kindle Fire are two of the top-selling tablets on the market today. FixYa, the product Q&A web destination, surveyed its users to discover the issues they have with the two popular products, and here’s what they’ve found: Top 5 Kindle Fire problems Can’t Turn Off One-Click Shopping – 30% –…
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood wants you to know how dangerous distracted driving is and he believes that limiting the capabilities of your phone while you’re driving can be a major step in helping to solve this issue. He and the government are proposing some voluntary restrictions which will disable some of your phone’s features while…
It feels weird writing about a desktop OS on a mobile blog, but Apple forced my hand. Today, the Cupertino company released its developer’s preview of Mac OS X Mountain Lion and brought over many features that are familiar to iPhone and iPad owners. The next version of OS X will include iOS-style Notifications, iMessage support, GameCenter…
Back in May 2010 we reported that the European Commission came to the decision that operators across the continent should use the 800 MHz band to provide mobile broadband. It took almost two years, but the European Commission is now saying that countries are required to open up the 800 MHz band by January 1,…
The folks who gave us the uber-popular app Kik are at it again but this time, they’re trying to create a simple platform which will let your smartphone interact with any screen that has a browser. The Clik app is available now for iOS and Android and it allows you to control multiple screens with…
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, which was mentioned at Google I/O in May 2011, and then formally announced in mid October along with the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, has been on the market for exactly two months now. Is it a little soon then to start talking about Android 5.0? Probably, but that’s the industry we’re…
For the longest time we’ve been hearing that Microsoft is going to release an update to Windows Phone called Tango that would enable handset vendors to create budget smartphones. We didn’t know exactly how Microsoft was planning to do that, but thanks to a leak on the Russian site WP7Forum.ru we now have an extensive…
Adobe released an advisory bulletin about several particularly nasty security vulnerabilities that let an attacker gain control over a person’s device. In addition to the desktop version of Flash, the vulnerability affects Android users on both Android 3.x and 4.x. The versions affected include Flash Player version 11.1.112.61 and earlier on Android 4.x devices and…