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You’ve probably heard that major smartphone makers are suing each other in an effort to stop certain products reaching the market. HTC and Samsung are sued by Apple, which in turn is sued by Samsung. But that’s not all, with these smartphone wars going beyond the wildest imagination, even involving some smaller companies most of…
Paperlinks is a new Android app that gives users a simple interface for accessing interactive mobile content from any QR code or NFC tag in the real world. So far it’s like NFC-enabled ScanLife. In that sense, Paperlinks too automatically scans QR codes (though not barcodes like ScanLife does) without touching a single button on…
Consumer Intelligence Research Partners collected survey responses from 6,316 people who purchased an iPhone in the U.S. during the last quarter of last year, specifically October 14th (the launch of the iPhone 4S) to the end of the year. They then did an analysis on the responses of 365 of those people and what they…
Let’s say you live in the UK and want the HTC EVO 3D – you can check out that cool deal with a two-year carrier contract we talked about 10 days ago. Or you may want an unlocked device, sans any commitments toward mobile operators? Good news – now you can get the glasses-free 3D…
Hooked is a new mobile app made to help Android users find new and cool game, based on their own preferences. Using a technology that is compared to the one Netflix and Pandora use, Hooked learns users’ gaming preferences to provide them with personalized game recommendations and advanced search features. Of course, you’ll have to…
Virgin America tried to do a cool thing when the company named an airplane “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.” The name was a tribute to Steve Jobs who used the quote in his renowned 2005 Stanford University commencement speech. It’s a nice gesture, but, unfortunately, it’s not 100% correct. You see, that quote, “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” is attributed to…
Arguably one of the best features of Google’s Android mobile operating system is the ability to swipe down from the top of the screen and see a list of notifications that require your attention. Missed calls, missed texts, someone liking your latest Facebook status update, that sort of thing. It’s such a handy little gesture…
Chinese handset vendor Huawei unveiled a ridiculously thin smartphone at CES earlier this month that we absolutely fell in love with, the Ascend P1 S. At just 6.68 mm thick it earned itself the title of the world’s thinnest smartphone. Despite the svelte proportions, Huawei managed to stick a dual core 1.5 GHz processor inside…
Earlier this month at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas we saw Nokia unveil their first high end Windows Phone device for the U.S. market, the Lumia 900. On the surface it’s pretty much exactly what we were expecting it to be, nothing more than a blown up Lumia 800. Under the hood there’s…
Tired of those Samsung versus Apple ads the Korean company is pumping out at an amazing rate? Hope not, because we have another one that’ll liven up the start of your work week. This time around, the ad focuses on a camping trip the barista guy is talking with his Apple fanboy friends. Before he…